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DOD to expand cyber exchange program with industry

Pentagon CIO Terry Halvorsen says the employee exchange would include about 10 companies.

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Navy awards $91.7M deal for next phase of electronic warfare program

Raytheon will work on Block 3 of SEWIP, which will give ships an electronic attack capability.

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DISA sets Forecast to Industry for November

Senior officials will detail their acquisition and procurement plans for fiscal 2016 and 2017.

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Inmarsat gets $450M satellite contract

DISA awards the company a potentially five-year deal to provide commercial satellite services to the Navy.

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DISA raises the limit on support deal with Microsoft

The modification to the contract for Blue Badge Cardholder support brings the total to $575 million.

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DARPA awards second deal for Phase II of ALIAS

Aurora Flight Sciences also will work on Phase II, which aims to add autonomous capabilities to helicopters and fixed-wing aircraft.

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Navy awards two huge deals for tactical radios

ViaSat and Data Link get contracts worth up to total of more then $880 million for MIDS Low Volume Terminals.

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Army awards $1B for intelligence and info warfare support

Four companies are named to the nearly $1 billion contract to support the directorate that develops ISR, cyber and electronic warfare capabilities.

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Navy, Army teams to take home GCN Awards

A Navy mobile app and the Army's consolidated logistics support system are among the projects honored in this year's awards.

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Navy awards $1.7B in C4ISR installation contracts

M.C. Dean and Honeywell will install and certify systems on ships and subs and at shore stations around the world over the next four years.

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Air Force puts 25 companies on $20.9B training contract

The companies will compete for work under the 10-year deal, which consolidates Air Force simulation and training programs under one roof.

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Navy awards $97M deal for radar jammers

Exelis will provide the latest versions of the jammers used to protect carrier-based Hornets from electronic warfare threats.

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Navy, Marines order up more Blackjack UAS

A $78 million contract modification calls for six more of the drones used for ISR and target acquisition on land and at sea.

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Air Force awards deal to fix some Global Hawk software

The $16.2 million contract modification to Northrop Grumman is intended to correct deficiencies in ground station software.

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Navy awards $60.9M deal for maritime drone program

Northrop Grumman will supply support for its BAM-D Global Hawk.

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Navy awards a second $478.6M contract for joint tactical radios

The award to Data Links Solutions, identical to the recent deal to ViaSat, brings the total committed to MIDS JTRS terminals to nearly a billion dollars.

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Army extends IT hardware contract another year, $652M

The six incumbents on ITES-2H will cover orders until next June while the Army works on the delayed ITES-3H.

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NATO gets its first AGS surveillance aircraft

Northrop Grumman and its industry partners deliver the first of five UAS that will be part of a system-of-systems ISR capability.

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Navy's third high-bandwidth satellite ready for duty

MUOS-3 expands coverage to about three-quarters of the globe; the fourth and final satellite is expected to be launched later this year.

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Army gets closer on Cyber Battle Lab

The converted Network Battle Lab will focus on supporting all aspects of cyber electromagnetic activities.