http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2009 Thu, 12 Nov 2009 12:12:41 EST By Geoff Fein In the week since the Navy stood up its new Director of Information Dominance (N2/N6), the organization is moving ahead to become the single point of contact within the service for Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA), according to a top Navy... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8564.html Tue, 10 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein Lockheed Martin [LMT] is looking to market its Common Radio Room (CRR) to U.S. partner nations, with the first effort to demonstrate the system to the Australian navy, a company official said. CRR has been adopted by the Navy for use on Seawolf... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8544.html Mon, 9 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein While much of the discussion about open architecture (OA) focuses on freeing up hardware and software, at the Office of Naval Research (ONR), they are in the midst of an effort to develop a system that can simultaneously run various radio... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8541.html Fri, 6 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST The Pentagon's network infrastructure will continue to receive top tier operations and maintenance support now with an award of a $292.7 million contract to Lockheed Martin [LMT] by the Army Information Technology Agency (ITA). Lockheed Martin will continue... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8510.html Thu, 5 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST Sectra recently announced it is launching the Panthon voice encryptor, which will enable European government authorities to protect all their sensitive telephone calls from eavesdropping at the Dutch IT security trade fair Infosecurity.nl. Panthon protects... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8511.html Thu, 5 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST The Army is in the initial stages of developing a Universal Ground Control Station (UGCS) that will operate more than one unmanned aerial vehicle, a service official said. Col. Greg Gonzalez, Army project manager for Unmanned Aircraft System, told sister... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8512.html Thu, 5 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST The time is now to begin implementing strong steps to defend the nation's "digital resources" and the effort must be led by an empowered director of a new cyber security center at the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). That director would help enforce... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8513.html Thu, 5 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST Cyber security legislation to be introduced later this year by two senators has five basic principles, including giving the Department of Homeland Security the backing and personnel needed to monitor federal civilian networks and defend against attacks, Sen... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8514.html Thu, 5 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) is providing critical command and control capabilities for the International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) Joint Command (IJC) in Afghanistan until it can be fully resourced, a command official said. The Joint Enabling... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8515.html Thu, 5 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein With the completion of advanced capability build (ACB) 08 on the USS Bunker Hill (CG-52), Navy officials are now turning their attention to follow-on ACBs to begin opening up and competing combat system components to add new capabilities to the... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8526.html Thu, 5 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein Although much of the Navy's work in open architecture (OA) has been on the acquisition side of the service, efforts are underway on the requirements side to "better align its processes to take advantage of an advanced capability build (ACB)... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8519.html Wed, 4 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein As the Navy begins to incorporate unmanned systems into the fleet, service officials are going to have to deal with a number of challenges ranging from acceptance of the new technologies to how best to procure them, according to the Chief of... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8504.html Tue, 3 Nov 2009 0:00:00 EST By Geoff Fein Now is the time for the Navy to begin investing in research and development to build the replacement for the current Ohio-class ballistic missile submarine (SSBN), according to the service's top submarine commander. The timing is essential if... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8474.html Thu, 29 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein In its seventh quarterly report to Congress on naval open architecture (NOA), the service has again demonstrated progress toward encouraging competition, building modular design and interoperable joint warfighting applications, identifying... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8464.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT ITT Corp. [ITT] has received a $169.3 million contract from Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) as part of the AN/SPS-48G Radar Obsolescence, Availability Recovery (ROAR) program, the company reported. The five-year contract has a base year value of $29... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8467.html Wed, 28 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT A Lockheed Martin [LMT]-led industry team completed a successful Preliminary Design Review (PDR) for the Navy's Communications at Speed and Depth (CSD) program that will deliver real-time, two-way communications to submarines without having to rise to... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8425.html Tue, 27 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT The Navy and its industry partners are into production on most of the computing hardware and nearing the final software release for the components that will operate the Zumwalt-class combat ship, according to a service official. "We are mostly through the... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8374.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT Based on the development and testing of a series of prototype tactical biometric collection and matching devices the past few years, the Navy is moving toward a program of record for the Identity Dominance System (IDS), which is aimed at denying anonymity to... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8375.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT The first 50 kilometers of Jordan's new integrated border security system along the country's northern border with Syria is operational and work is underway to extend coverage to another stretch of border, according to officials with DRS Technologies, the... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8376.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT Unisys [UIS] recently announced it has developed an integrated platform that enables different types of iris recognition systems supplied by various vendors to work as part of a single system for identification purposes. The development work was done under a... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/8377.html Thu, 22 Oct 2009 0:00:00 EDT