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Navy qualifies more contractors for SeaPort-e
SeaPort-e got a little bigger on July 12 when the Navy added 385 contractors to the already 2,501 on the huge multiple award contract
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Navy SEALs need more drones for Afghan mission
The Defense Department wants congressional approval to transfer as much as $641 million in funding for ISR to priorities such as funding to improve the use of Boeing's ScanEagle drone to support Navy SEALs in Afghanistan.
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Navy's Triton UAV fleet key to rebalancing Pacific
The U.S. Navy's MQ-4C Triton Broad Area Maritime Surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle made its first official appearance June 14, and that is just the beginning.
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Navy, Boeing demo satcom for F/A-18 Super Hornet aircraft
The Navy and Boeing recently wrapped up an in-flight demonstration of a satellite communications system that potentially would enable F/A-18E/F Super Hornet aircrews to conduct two-way voice and data communications with SATCOM-enabled air, sea and land command centers.
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Wireless rechargers would make powering up simpler for soldiers
Army researchers are working diligently to develop a way for troops to wirelessly recharge all of the location and communications gear they wear into battle by outfitting them with wireless chargers.
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Navy to unveil first MQ-4C, stays course after UAV crash
The Navy and contractor Northrop Grumman will unveil the first production version of its MQ-4C Broad Area Maritime Surveillance unmanned aerial vehicle June 14 despite the recent crash of one of its demonstrators on Maryland's Eastern Shore.
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Large Navy UAV crashes on Maryland's Eastern Shore
A large unmanned aircraft operated by the Navy crashed June 11 on Maryland's eastern shore.
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Navy wants help boosting coastal surveillance
The Navy wants industry and other interested parties to submit ideas for new systems and technologies for use in shore surveillance and amphibious operations.
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Navy picks provider for COTS network and tech work
The Navy has awarded a five-year indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract with an estimated value of $500 million to Iron Bow Technologies for communications and IT equipment support.
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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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