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Lockheed drives robotic vehicle for Army via satellite link
Lockheed Martin has completed a successful demonstration for the Army designed to show that its robotic squad support vehicle can be controlled via satellite from hundreds of miles away.
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General Dynamics to port next-gen waveforms onto Navy digital radios
General Dynamics C4 Systems has received a $40 million contract modification from the Navy to port the MOUS Waveform and the Integrated Waveform into the AN/USC-61(C) Digital Modular Radio.
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Shift to Africa requires additional surveillance assets, says DOD
The Defense Department's plan to shift its forces from Central Asia to the Pacific has been superseded by new terrorist threats that have sprung up over the past 24 months in Africa.
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Sequestration would force Army to delay all modernization programs, says chief of staff
Furloughs, budget cuts and curtailment of training might significantly affect Army readiness if sequestration is allowed to take place March 1, Army Chief of Staff GEN Ray Odierno told the Senate Armed Services Committee.
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Raytheon, Thales team on Army helmet mounted display
Raytheon Technical Services Company has won a contract award worth $3.5 million for the engineering and manufacturing development of Common Helmet Mounted Display (CHMD) systems for the Army's Air Soldier Program.
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Boeing to continue helping Air Force with GPS satellite modernization
Boeing has won a new contract from the Air Force to continue modernizing the Global Positioning System satellite constellation for up to five more years.
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Army wants your ideas for future battlefield tech
The Army's Rapid Equipping Force (REF) recently launched a portal to solicit ideas and input on modern technologies for the battlefield from soldiers, industry and tinkerers.
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Lockheed's cyber services available on GSA products list
Lockheed Martin’s cross-domain cyber solutions, which allow data to be exchanged across all security enclaves by users with different levels of security clearance, are now available on the General Services Administration schedule of products and services.
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Mercury to assist Navy with electronic warfare research
Mercury Systems has won a three-year contract with the Naval Research Laboratory's Tactical Electronic Warfare Division to assist the division with electronic warfare technology.
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Harris, AIS team to furnish satcom services to intel agency
Harris CapRock and AIS have teamed to furnish a customer in the intelligence community with satellite services through a Custom Satellite Solutions Small Business task order, the company said Feb. 12.
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Lockheed to perform work on additional GPS III satellites
Lockheed Martin has won a $62 million contract from the Air Force to work on the Global Positioning System (GPS) III space vehicles 5 and 6.
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Northrop completes demo of UAS common mission management software
Northrop Grumman has successfully completed a flight demonstration of a new mission control system for unmanned aircraft designed to boost mission effectiveness and reduce training requirements.
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General Atomics to give Predator B sense and avoid capability
General Atomics Aeronautical Systems has successfully flight tested a prototype of its Due Regard Radar (DRR), which supports the company's airborne airborne Sense and Avoid (SAA) architecture for the Predator B unmanned aircraft system.
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DARPA looks to robotics to conquer challenge of recycling satellites
The Pentagon's research arm is pushing hard for technology advances that would enable the reusing of satellite hardware in orbit.
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Navy 4G LTE network operational on two ships headed to Persian Gulf
The Navy will send the USS Kearsarge and USS San Antonio to the Persian Gulf in late March with its brand new 4G LTE network.
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VSE gets $99M Coast Guard management services contract
VSE has won a contract to furnish program and technical support services for Security Assistance Projects administered by the U.S. Coast Guard Foreign Military Sales program.
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Army memo outlines potential devastating effects of sequestration
The Army has released information this week that outlines the crippling effects of the $18 billion in fiscal 2013 cuts that the service would experience if sequestration takes effect, and Congress chooses to fund the Defense Department with a CR for the rest of this year.
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ViaSat wins Navy MIDS LTV cryptographic module contract
ViaSat has won a contract from the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command to deliver a logical cryptographic module to be integrated into a variety of MIDS LVT hardware variants.
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SAIC wins $58M Army Guard enterprise IT services contract
SAIC has won a contract from the Army National Guard to furnish support for the operation and modernization of the organization's Enterprise Operations and Security Services concept and the associated IT services
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