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Budget

DoD Considering Multi-Year Approach To Commercial SATCOM Acquisition

Monday, April 8th, 2013

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The Defense Department is considering multi-year approaches to acquiring commercial satellite communications (SATCOM) services, according to the Pentagon’s information technology (IT) czar. DoD Chief Information Officer (CIO) Teri Takai told the House Armed Services intelligence, emerging threats and capabilities subcommittee March 13 the Pentagon is putting together a “cost recovery model” that takes into account multi-year acquisition. DoD spokesman Air Force Lt. Col. Damien Pickart last week described a cost recovery model as a “deterministic, proactive” process part of DoD’s…

Congress

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Congress

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Congress

Concerns Raised At SASC Hearing On Unobligated Reconciliation Funds And Lack Of Updates On Iran War Cost

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Unmanned Systems

CBO Says Upfront Costs To Protect Military Installations From Drones Between $1 Million And $74 Million

The initial costs to acquire and deploy counter-small unmanned aircraft system (C-sUAS) defenses at individual Defense Department installations are estimated at between $1.2 million and $73.6 million depending on the […]