Army
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ArmyFull Support, Plus Reports on AMPV Recommended In HAC Draft Report
The House Appropriations Committee recommends full funding–$92.3 million–for the Army’s Armored Multi-Purpose Vehicle (AMPV) program in the draft version of the FY ’15 2015 House Defense Appropriations Bill. The congressional […]
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ArmyDraft HAC Report Would Add Funds To Support Army Testing of Degraded Visual Environment Equipment
The House Appropriations Committee recommends adding $20 million to Army accounts to help the land force solve the problems of helicopters coping with degraded visual environment such as heavy dust […]
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ArmyArmy To Hold Tactical Network Industry Seminar Next Month
The Army plans a tactical network related Industry Seminar July 15 at Aberdeen Proving Ground (APG), Md., and recommended both business development and technical staff attend. The seminar, announced June […]
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ArmyNATO Land Forces Losing Combat Capacity, New Essay Finds
NATO has no equal in terms of gross domestic product and has the world’s largest aggregate defense sector, but declining defense budgets and dwindling public support for complex foreign deployments […]
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ArmyProtecting Ballistic Missile Technology Starts With Cyber, Army General Says
Ensuring effective cyber defenses are in place to help contain the proliferation of technologies that could contribute to enemy capabilities is one way to prevent the danger at a time […]
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ArmyATK Garners More Than $100 Million For Ammunition Production And Development
ATK [ATK] Wednesday said it received several domestic contracts totaling more than $112 million for medium- and large-caliber ammunition production and development for ammunition to arm aircraft such as the […]
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Air ForceSeven Firms Selected To Support Joint Force Development
Seven companies–General Dynamics Information Technology [GD], Booz Allen Hamilton, Northrop Grumman [NOC], Capstone Corp., SAIC [SAI], Lockheed Martin [LMT] MacAulay-Brown Inc.–all are awarded a five-year, potential $876 million, cost-plus fixed-fee, […]
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ArmyThe Army May Not Be A Business, But Must Have ‘World Class’ Business Practices, General Says
The Army has many characteristics of a business–if its budget were revenue it would be in the Fortune Top 20–but the leader of the land force’s Office of Business Transformation […]
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ArmyArmy Prepares To Move Into LRIP For General Dynamics Manpack Radios
The Army Contracting Command-Aberdeen Proving Ground (ACC-APG) intends a sole source solicitation to General Dynamics C4 Systems [GD] to procure Low Rate Initial Production (LRIP) Manpack Radios (AN/PRC-155). The Manpack […]
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ArmyGAO Finds Army Is Using Competition In Select Network Programs
The Army is incorporating competition in various ways for most of the nine tactical networking acquisition programs the Government Accountability Office (GAO) scrutinized, though recommendations were not made in the […]