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Services Need Further Integration of Cyberwarfare Capabilities
Despite its inclusion as a full-fledged warfighting domain and the stand up of an entirely new combatant command to oversee operations in that domain, cyberwarfare has yet to be fully […]
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Northrop Grumman Firebird Takes Part In Empire Challenge
Northrop Grumman [NOC] emerging technologies participated in the recent Joint Forces Command-hosted Empire Challenge 2011 (EC11), an effort to examine technologies that could fit warfighter needs. “Empire Challenge not only […]
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Lockheed Martin, Raytheon, Submit JAGM Proposals
Teams led by Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Raytheon [RTN] submitted their Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) proposals June 6, the deadline to respond to the government’s Request for Proposals (RFP) for […]
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DoD Testers Find Global Hawk Operational Flaws
Pentagon testers found a new version of the RQ-4B Global Hawk unmanned aerial vehicle cannot effectively conduct the type of persistent spying for which it was designed. The Block 30 […]
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BAE Systems Delivers Milestone Warning Sensors Military
BAE Systems recently said it has delivered its 20,000th warning sensor for U.S. Navy, U.S. Air Force, and allied aircraft missile warning systems, an achievement made possible by teaming with […]
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SpaceLockheed Martin SBIRS GEO-1 Now In Orbit
The first Lockheed Martin [LMT]-built Space Based Infrared System (SBIRS) geosynchronous (GEO-1) spacecraft has successfully reached its intended orbit and is performing as required. The satellite was launched May 7 […]
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Space
Combatant Commands Still See JCIDS As Inefficient, Unresponsive
While the Joint Staff has taken great strides toward getting the combatant commands more involved in the requirements process, the mechanism that turns those requests from the field into actual […]
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Space
STRATCOM: Satellite Jamming Growing Threat
A top Pentagon official testified last Friday he is concerned about the growing threat of adversaries jamming U.S. satellites. Air Force Gen. C. Robert Kehler, commander of U.S. Strategic Command […]
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Space
Air Force, Industry Pursuing Maritime Version of JASSM Missile
The Air Force requirements shop is working the details for a potential new-start program to field a maritime version of the air service’s venerable Joint Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile (JASSM), with […]
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Space
MDA Director ‘Confident’ GBI Test Failures Being Addressed
A Senate panel sounded alarms recently about test failures with the Ground-Based Midcourse Defense (GMD) system, as a senior Pentagon official sought to assure it the national- missile-defense effort is […]