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Ship-building talks ongoing between Navy, General Dynamics
General Dynamics and the Navy continue contract negotiations for two destroyers.
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Navy test replicates UAV landing on carrier
The successful test of a carrier touchdown of an F/A-18D surrogate aircraft, which replicated maneuvers of unmanned aerial vehicles, is another step closer to the 2013 goal of an autonomous landing of a UAV on an aircraft carrier, the Navy says.
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Navy, Marine Corps begin UAS cargo tests
The Navy and Marine Corps are moving forward on the first of two UAS tests.
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Unmanned sailing vessel set for next sea trial
The latest prototype of the experimental Harbor Wing unmanned surface vessel will set sail this September from San Diego in a trial designed to further test its ability to conduct intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions.
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Navy takes spiral approach to cyber acquisition
The Navy is developing new acquisition strategies to meet rapidly evolving global cyber threats.
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Navy wants Boeing to study carrier-launched drones
Boeing has received a contract to make sure a drone designed for surveillance and strikes flies by 2018.
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Army explores idea of joint VTOL drone
The Army has provided an addendum to a Navy analysis of alternatives to determine whether the two services can meet their needs for vertical-takeoff-and-landing unmanned aircraft through a joint program.
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Navy Fire Scout crashes during Libya operations
A U.S. unmanned helicopter crashed June 21 while undertaking a reconnaissance mission as part of NATO's continuing air campaign against Libyan leader Muammar el-Qaddafi.
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Navy's cyber unit scans horizon for new challenges
The Navy's Fleet Cyber Command/10th Fleet is looking beyond situational awareness to new challenges.
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Info dominance vital to the 'kill chain,' Navy intell czar says
Vice Adm. Kendall L. Card, director of Naval Intelligence and deputy chief of Naval Operations for Information Dominance, discusses how the Navy is improving its electronic warfare and cyber capabilities as it prepares to face current and future challenges.
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Navy lab seeks wide-area surveillance system
The Office of Naval Research is seeking an autonomous persistent tactical surveillance system that will be able to link intelligence data collected from reconnaissance and surveillance systems into the command-and-control systems used by small tactical units communicating with their headquarters.
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Soldier Radio Waveform passes lab test for interoperability
Military test engineers have successfully completed the testing in a laboratory setting of the Soldier Radio Waveform to communicate real-time data across waveforms installed on radio platforms from multiple vendors, announced the Joint Program Executive Officer for the Joint Tactical Radio System.
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Navy goes full speed ahead with next-gen IT projects
The Navy is making progress with its two major IT consolidation programs, CANES and NGEN, but will face significant challenges, according to officials.
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Navy walks tightrope in downsizing environment
Under Secretary of the Navy Robert Work says that the upcoming military draw down must be done right because it will have a long-term repercussions on U.S. forces.
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Navy must get creative -- and critical -- to be efficient
Reaching the Navy's efficiency goals is impossible without changing how the service is doing things now, according to CIO Terry Halvorsen, speaking at AFCEA's Naval IT Day.
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Navy needs a way to handle UAV, sensor data
With threats on the rise and manpower decreasing due to budget cuts, the key to the Navy's data challenge lies within implementation of proper procedures of tasking, collection, processing, exploitation and dissemination (TCPED), according to a official at the AFCEA Naval IT Day.
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Navy views network infrastructure as vital combat component
Navy Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Jonathan Greenert talks about the service's priorities for cyber operations, acquisition of IT systems.
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Navy rolls out regional cybersecurity centers
New naval regional cybersecurity components will support broader Navy Fleet Cyber Command efforts as the Navy takes on a myriad of network-related challenges.
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SPAWAR Atlantic gets tech tools to battlefields
SSC Atlantic's director discusses how the command has helped deploy and integrate new technologies.
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