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Logistics to boost defense business

A government IT trade group says defense logistics technology will be the fastest growth area in 2004.

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Raytheon gets Air Force deal

The company will get $20.5 million to make improvements to the Air Force's Global Broadcast Services.

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Air Force seeks satellite blinder plans

Northrop Grumman received an additional $32.2 million for a contract to design a system to deny enemies the use of their spy satellites.

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Army CIO picks deputy

The Army named Vernon Bettencourt Jr. deputy chief information officer starting Nov. 17.

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Army awards ITES contracts

The Army awarded five contracts Oct. 22 in the second part of the $500 million Information Technology Enterprise Solutions program.

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Vendor readying FBCB2 dismounted system

Northrop Grumman Corp. wants U.S. and coalition forces on foot to have the same digital communication abilities that they have inside their vehicles.

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Industry at odds over architecture groups

A new committee launched this month by leading defense contractors and aimed at forging an open architecture and standards to ensure that future battle systems can communicate more effectively could also stop Boeing Co.'s ambition to form a similar working group, industry insiders said.

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DISA takes another crack at GIG-BE fiber

The Defense Information Systems Agency will recompete parts of the fiber-optic cable portion of the Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program because it did not issue all the contracts in September.

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Nomination delays; Old dogs, new tricks; Lesson still being learned; Serious about IPv6; AGS slap-in-the-face

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Air Force studies bandwidth

The Air Force will study ways to optimize bandwidth and reduce long-haul communications circuits' costs.

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Chief cyberwarrior to join Army CIO

The U.S. military's top cyberwarrior will join the Army's CIO office in November, according to a service statement today.

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ITES services contracts coming soon

Services pacts for the Army's Information Technology Enterprise Solutions program will come within a couple of weeks, an official said.

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Smaller Navy, PR-savvy Army, Paint-by-number Ids; 2004: a network odyssey; Gilligan's sincere island

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Trading armor for knowledge: Can the Army do it?

Army transformation involves building rapidly deployable forces.

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House appropriators cut Iraq IT funding

The House Appropriations Committee slashed more than $300 million from the IT funds requested in President Bush's supplemental spending proposal.

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Future is now for Army tech

Technology developed as part of long-term project now being shipped to soldiers in Iraq

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Army transformation changes direction

Much ballyhooed Future Combat System could lose ground in the push toward digitization servicewide

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Army ponders bandwidth priorities

The service's CIO will brief the Army chief of staff next week on which bases should be designated bandwidth flagships.

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Army readies 3-D design program

The service wants to design weapons in a three-dimensional computer environment.

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Army seeks $98.5 billion 2005 budget

The service wants $22 billion for its Future Combat System.