http://www.defensedaily.com Defense Daily en-us 2009 Fri, 10 Jul 2009 11:59:19 EDT By Geoff Fein A key Senate panel wants the Navy to submit a plan for providing a full and open competition for combat systems in construction of surface combatants beyond 2011. According to language in the Senate Armed Services Committee's (SASC)... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7446.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein Virginia Beach-based Global Technical Systems (GTS) has been awarded a $95 million indefinite delivery indefinite quantity contract for the Navy's Common Processing Systems (CPS)--a major piece of the Navy's Open Architecture (OA) efforts... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7451.html Fri, 10 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT The Navy's Program Executive Office for Command, Control, Communications, Computers and Intelligence (PEO C4I) will begin limited procurement and fielding of unclassified wireless networks onboard Navy surface ships starting this summer, according to the sea... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7384.html Tue, 7 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT The Air Force awarded Lockheed Martin [LMT] a $30 million contract to begin concept development for Space Fence, a system of land-based S-Band radars and supporting operations centers that will detect and report on objects and debris orbiting the Earth. June... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7347.html Thu, 2 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT The Marine Corps Systems Command (MCSC) Acquisition Center for Support Services (ACSS) awarded QinetiQ North America a prime contract with a ceiling value of $17.4 million to provide a wide range of services to the MCSC's Program Manager for Autonomic... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7348.html Thu, 2 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT CACI International [CACI] June 30 announced it has been awarded a $125 million prime contract to support the Army's Communications-Electronics Command's (CECOM) Fires Software Engineering Division (FSED) in providing software engineering support for fielded... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7349.html Thu, 2 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT Cubic Defense Applications Inc. [CUB] received more than $4 million in new orders for its Tactical Common Data Link (TCDL) following the system's superior performance during... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7350.html Thu, 2 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT Northrop Grumman Cobham Intercoms LLC (NGCI LLC), a company formed by Northrop Grumman [NOC] and Cobham (COB), has been selected over teams led by Lockheed Martin [LMT] and Rockwell Collins [COL] under a 10-year, potential $2.4 billion contract, to provide... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7351.html Thu, 2 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT To keep ahead of evolving threats the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is initiating a new program aimed at advancing the state-of-the-art in Non-Intrusive Inspection (NII) systems used to scan cargo and containers for potential threats. "In general the... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7352.html Thu, 2 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT QinetiQ North America announced it received a $56.4 million indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity contract for purchase and delivery of TALON GEN IV robots and associated equipment for the Navy. The June 25 contract from the Naval Surface Warfare Center... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7353.html Thu, 2 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT As personnel at Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) are finding that even in the early introduction of Open Architecture (OA) into the Unmanned Combat Air Systems (UCAS) program, they are realizing cost savings, a program official said. "What happened was we... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7354.html Thu, 2 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT Northrop Grumman [NOC] has won a $276.3 million contract to supply aircraft battlefield communication equipment to the Pentagon, the service recently said. The U.S. Air Force Electronic Systems Center awarded the 18-month contract for fielding of the... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7355.html Thu, 2 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT Harris [HRS] has developed an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) video receiver that delivers high-resolution full-motion tactical video to individual warfighters for real-time ISR, the company reported. The handheld Harris ISR receiver... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7356.html Thu, 2 Jul 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein As personnel at Naval Air Systems Command (NAVAIR) are finding that even in the early introduction of Open Architecture (OA) into the Unmanned Combat Air Systems (UCAS) program, they are realizing cost savings, a program official said... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7311.html Mon, 29 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein The Navy's effort to develop a carrier capable combat drone is providing the service an opportunity to explore the art of the possible, literally building the Unmanned Combat Air System (UCAS) with an eye toward open architecture (OA). "One... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7307.html Fri, 26 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT By Geoff Fein As the Navy pursues development of new aircraft launch and recovery systems for its next generation of carriers, the service is also developing a new information management system to keep track of aircraft on the flight deck, according to a... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7287.html Wed, 24 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Harris [HRS] has developed an intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) video receiver that delivers high-resolution full-motion tactical video to individual warfighters for real-time ISR, the company reported. The handheld Harris ISR receiver... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7290.html Wed, 24 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT Lockheed Martin [LMT] last week announced the development of an Airborne Multi-INT Laboratory (AML), which will be used for operational testing and experimentation of C4ISR capabilities. The AML provides a platform for both advanced research and realistic... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7190.html Thu, 18 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT General Dynamics [GD] C4 Systems recently announced it has been awarded $21 million to add Internet-like capabilities to the Marine Corps' Combat Operations Centers (COCs), the focal point of decision-making for deployed Marine commanders and their staffs... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7191.html Thu, 18 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT ITT Corp. [ITT] in partnership with the Army has recently provided prototypes of the Digital Enhanced Night Vision Goggle, or ENVG (D), to the service for evaluation. The ENVG (D) utilizes digital thermal and low-light-level sensors to provide digitally fused... http://www.defensedaily.com/publications/c4i/7192.html Thu, 18 Jun 2009 0:00:00 EDT