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Defense Daily
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Cal Biesecker
Articles By Cal
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ArmyU.K. Territorial Army Changes Name, Grows, Under Future Reserve Force Plans
U.K. Defense Secretary Philip Hammond yesterday revealed future reserve forces plans that includes providing more support and growth, while dropping the more than a century old name of “Territorial Army” […]
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Homeland SecuritySeven Software Teams Move Forward In DARPA Robotics Challenge
Nine teams have merged into seven and are receiving support from the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to compete with an ATLAS robot in the 2013 DARPA Robotic Challenge […]
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ArmyTextron Land & Marine To Work On MECV-S Scalable Armor
Textron Marine & Land Systems (TM&LS) [TXT] said it was awarded a $3.39 million firm-fixed price Army contract for work on the Modernized Expanded Capacity Vehicle Survivability (MECV-S) system. TM&LS […]
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Air ForceMissile Defense Agency Plans Friday GMD Intercept Flight Test
The Missile Defense Agency (MDA), the Air Force 30th Space Wing and U.S. Northern Command (NORTHCOM) plan to conduct an interceptor flight test July 5 to exercise the Ground-based Midcourse […]
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Air ForceDemand Increasing For Bold Quest Combat ID Assessments
There is a growing demand from the services and U.S. allies for more Bold Quest demonstrations, the joint-staff led coalition air combat assessments examining combat identification issues, an official said. […]
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InternationalVector Aerospace, Sikorsky Aerospace Services Sign On To U.K. Customer Service Center
Sikorsky Aerospace Services [TXT] said it appointed Vector Aerospace as an approved Customer Service Center (CSC) in the United Kingdom, during the Paris AirShow, and yesterday Vector said the fourth […]
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ArmyArmy Seeks Industry Candidates For NIE 14.2
The Assistant Secretary of the Army for Acquisition, Logistics and Technology System of Systems Engineering and Integration Directorate (SOSE&I) is looking for interested sources with mature solutions to enhance existing […]
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ArmyArmy AMRDEC Conducts Successful Autonomous Tests For Next Gen Rotorcraft
Follow-on testing of the Army Aviation and Missile Research, Development and Engineering Center’s (AMRDEC) fly-by-wire Rotorcraft Aircrew Systems Concept Airborne Laboratory, or "RASCAL," points toward the next generation of unmanned […]
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Air ForceHASC Calls Air Force On ‘Blatant Disregard’ of Congressional Priorities
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) continues to review the Defense Department’s reprogramming actions, and in their most recent letter to the Pentagon Comptroller calls out the Air Force for […]
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ArmyHASC Denies Funds Moving From WIN-T, Humvee Reset
The House Armed Services Committee (HASC) has rejected an Army proposal to move money from some programs–$128 million from the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), $171 million from reset of High […]