Army

By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin [LMT] is touting a new 3G broadband network for the military that will enable any government approved, commercially available smart phone to link in and […]

By Emelie Rutherford The overall size of the defense budget likely needs to be increased to modernize equipment, the heads of an independent panel that critiqued the Pentagon’s 2010 Quadrennial […]

By Emelie Rutherford The House, via a 308-114 vote, granted final congressional approval yesterday to the long-delayed war-funding bill, after lawmakers agreed to remove much of the domestic spending tacked on to […]

By Emelie Rutherford A key House panel approved a $523.9 billion Pentagon spending bill yesterday with funding for the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter’s alternate engine, a move that could bode […]

By Geoff Fein Raytheon [RTN] and Boeing [BA] have wrapped up the first of three planned government-sponsored Joint Air-to-Ground Missile (JAGM) firings at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., according to […]

L-1 Identity Solutions [ID] has introduced a new version of its handheld multimodal biometric capture and identification system, the HIIDE 5, a small, 3.1 pound unit for high-volume remote enrollments. […]

By Emelie Rutherford A Senate budget-writing panel agreed yesterday to cut President Barack Obama’s proposed level of Pentagon funding, and a House committee could do the same thing next week. […]

By Calvin Biesecker Textron [TXT] yesterday said its Textron Systems division has acquired a small business unit from Crane Co. [CR] that designs and builds wireless monitoring systems, including an […]

By Calvin Biesecker As the military services work to establish full operational capability (FOC) this fall for their newly established cyber commands, achieving real-time situational awareness of threats to their […]

By Ann Roosevelt Lockheed Martin [LMT] has developed a rugged, Tactical Digital Assistant (TDA) handheld device for dismounted soldiers. The TDA combines the best design features of personal digital assistants […]