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Business/FinancialDISA Looks To Buy Software Service On Demand
By Geoff Fein A few years ago, the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) began an effort to get processing and storage capacity on demand–buying capacity as a service and not […]
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ArmyNorthrop Grumman Wins Army Contract For Biometric Intel Gathering
By Calvin Biesecker Northrop Grumman [NOC] said yesterday it has received a potential $39.6 million contract from the Army to redesign and enhance an intelligence gathering and distribution system that […]
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Obama Nominating Carter To Be DoD Acquisition Czar
By Emelie Rutherford President Obama announced yesterday he intends to nominate Harvard professor Ashton Carter to be the Pentagon’s under secretary of defense for acquisition, technology, and logistics. If the nomination […]
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Air ForceNew Anti-Ship Cruise Missile Targets Key To Defeating Advanced Weapons, Official Says
By Geoff Fein As the Navy and industry develop new ship self defense systems to counter advances in anti-ship cruise missiles, it’s up to PMA-208 to find ways to represent […]
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Northrop Grumman: DCGS-IC SOA Approach More Flexible, Cuts Life Cycle Costs
Northrop Grumman‘s [NOC] Distributed Common Ground System-Intelligence Community (DCGS-IC) Beta Operational Capability (BOC) has become an operational Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), providing the system greater flexibility and efficiency compared to […]
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IG: DoD Lost Track of Some Surplus Weapons Sent To Other Nations
By Emelie Rutherford The Pentagon inadequately tracked thousands of surplus weapons and vehicles provided to foreign countries in recent years, creating a potential security threat, according to the Department of […]
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SpaceX Heat Shield Material Passes Test
Heat shield material for the Space Exploration Technologies Corp. (SpaceX) passed a test, the company announced. The PICA-X heat shield material, which will be used in the Dragon spacecraft, underwent […]
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Orbital Sciences Taurus Rocket Poised To Launch Tomorrow Carrying NASA Satellite
An Orbital Sciences Corp. [ORB] Taurus XL rocket is poised for liftoff tomorrow, when it will launch the Orbiting Carbon Observatory (OCO), a NASA satellite to study just where increasing […]
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Ares I-X Rocket Segment Arrives At Kennedy Space Center For Assembly
The last new section of the Ares I-X test rocket arrived at Kennedy Space Center for assembly, prior to the next-generation U.S. spacecraft rocket soaring on its first flight sometime […]
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SLAM-ER Launched, Scores Hit In Test
A Standoff Land Attack Missile Expanded Response (SLAM ER) was launched to score a direct hit on a remote-controlled land-based moving target, The Boeing Co. [BA] announced. The test was […]