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Brits Net Gains Through Air-Land Interface Lessons Learned
ROME–The British military has made great strides delivering network enabled capabilities (NEC) to forces working at the Air-Land Interface (ALI) and has identified key steps toward additional interoperability, a Ministry […]
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Northrop Grumman Calls Open Architecture Key To IBCS Bid
Open architecture is key to the Northrop Grumman [NOC] team bid for prime contractor in the Army’s Integrated Air and Missile Defense Battle Command System (IBCS) competition to be awarded […]
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Business/FinancialHarris Awarded Potential $77 Million Contract For Navy SATCOM Terminals
The Navy this week awarded Harris [HRS] a potential five-year, $77 million Indefinite Delivery/Indefinite Quantity (IDIQ) contract for development and production of multiband satellite communications terminals that will provide high-speed […]
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NASA Awards Lunar Spacesuit Contract Worth Up To $745.9 Million
NASA last week gave Oceaneering International Inc. of Houston a contract worth up to $745.9 million to design, develop and produce a new spacesuit for orbital and lunar operations. Subcontractors […]
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InternationalSCHOTT’s NightViper Optical Scope Allows Soldiers To See Around Corners
SCHOTT‘s Fiber Optics Defense Division June 16 introduced NightViper, a system that allows soldiers to view around corners, under doors and through holes in a building when attached to standard […]
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Homeland Security
iRobot To Develop ChemBots For DARPA
iRobot Corp. [IRBT] yesterday said the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) and the Army Research Office have awarded the company a new multi-year, $3.3 million dollar research and development […]
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CongressGAO, WCO Outline Challenges To Scanning All U.S. Bound Cargo Containers
By Calvin Biesecker A congressional mandate that all cargo containers bound for the United States be electronically scanned for threats raises a host of challenges for the U.S. and foreign […]
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Air ForceNew AT&L Shop For Space And Intel Acquisition Oversight Established
By Emelie Rutherford A new organization within the Pentagon acquisition chief’s office responsible for all acquisition oversight of Defense Department space and intelligence programs has been officially established with Joshua […]
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Business/Financial
Coast Guard’s National Security Cutter Heading To Baltimore
After months of speculation and rumor, the Coast Guard’s first National Security Cutter (NSC), the CGC Bertholf (WMSL 750), left Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] Pascagoula, Miss., shipyard and is now making […]
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International
Another Step Forward For NATO Strategic Airlift
The Defence Ministers of the Strategic Airlift Capability (SAC) nations met at NATO Headquarters to review progress June 12 and map the way forward to meet the goal of receiving […]