Defense Systems
Are the US military services in sync for net-enabled warfare?
It might seem as if the Army's strategy for tackling hybrid threats and the Air Force and Navy doctrine for AirSea Battle go off in different directions at a time when strategic synthesis is sorely needed in light of shrinking defense funding, but do they really?
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Handling UAVs on crowded Navy carriers poses major challenge
As the Navy prepares to introduce its robotic jet-powered warplanes to the decks of its aircraft carriers in mid-2013, it must reassess how it choreographs the delicate dance of people, vehicles, and manned and unmanned aircraft in a highly dangerous environment.
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Military radio competition heats up as lawmakers intervene
The introduction of a bipartisan amendment to the House Armed Services Committee's defense authorization markup caused a short-lived dustup recently when it sought to bar the Army and Navy from procuring tactical radio systems that depend on proprietary waveforms.
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3 Navy ships to get microwave-based WWAN in 2012
The Navy plans to install microwave-based wireless wide area networks on three ships by the end of 2012 as an initial step to give the fleet sufficient bandwidth to support smart phones.
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Navy plans to pinch pennies on NGEN
The Navy is looking for the best price it can get on the Next Generation Enterprise Network contract.
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Common data sharing essential to AirSea Battle doctrine
The "AirSea Battle" concept championed by top Navy and Air Force brass has a long way to go since there is a noticeable lack of data-sharing protocol between the two military services.
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Navy to test 4G LTE command and control network at sea
The Navy recently established a year-long pilot program for the Kearsarge Expeditionary Strike Group to test a portable maritime command and control system built around Oceus Networks' Xiphos cellular technology.
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X-47B moves closer to carrier demo in 2013
Navy technicians will perform arrested landings and catapult launches of the X-47B Unmanned Combat Air System Demonstrator at Naval Air Station Patuxent River in Maryland this year in preparation for a carrier demonstration in 2013.
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Web apps latest weapon against modern-day pirates
The Defense Department has begun funding a project that seeks to develop Web-based applications that would assist multinational navies police the world's oceans against international pirates, the Office of Naval Research.
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Long-awaited NGEN RFP released, with goal of taking back control the network
The Navy's long-awaited NGEN solicitation has been released, marking an official step forward for the service.
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What news I learned at the DISA show: A reporter's notebook
Defense Systems Editor-in-Chief Barry Rosenberg spent three days at the Defense Information Systems Agency customer forum in Tampa the week of May 7 and has more than a few juicy tidbits of information to share.
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DOD experiments with image services contracts to plug ISR gaps
Some parts of the Defense Department are now purchasing "pixels by the hour" from contractors operating unmanned aerial systems as a way to fill gaps in their intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities.
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DOD schedules first test of cloud-oriented joint network
The Defense Department plans to test its Joint Information Environment concept in the European Command this summer.
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Navy embraces IT consolidation as new way of doing business
The traditionally self-reliant Navy is becoming more enterprise oriented.
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Agility, flexibility key components of IT success, says SPAWAR director
A fresh perspective that incorporates a sense of flexibility is required to achieve IT success in a world where threats are coming from new directions.
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The Navy can be its own worst enemy when it comes to cyber, says Navy CIO
With better education and understanding, the Navy can make it easier on themselves in acquisition and network security.
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Navy wrestles with comm challenges in unmanned systems, cyber warfare
Navy leadership must think differently about how the service operates in the new era of defense.
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Naval IT Day to spotlight major enterprise initiatives
Defense Systems' staff will be on hand May 3 to furnish detailed coverage of the 11th Annual Naval IT Day.
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Military airship programs plagued by wide range of problems
The Defense Department has invested more than $1 billion in at least nine airship programs across the military services in an effort to provide persistent surveillance to ground troops, but so far has almost nothing to show in operational airships.
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