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Army aims to protect personnel with alert system expansion

The Army has expanded its emergency notification system for the 1st Infantry Division and Fort Riley, doubling the number of protected personnel at the fort to 10,000.

Ferguson named joint automatic ID product manager

The Army has appointed Lt. Col. Cary Ferguson as the Product Manager for Joint – Automatic Identification Technology.

Cloud proves to be the answer for Army lab testing

What do you do if your application is so large that it would require all the nodes on your network just to test? If you're the Army Research Laboratory, you turn to cloud computing.

New legislation would enforce defense acquisition reform

The fiscal 2010 National Defense Authorization Act seeks greater oversight of services and speedier ways to buy information technology.

Marine Corps to get support for logistics programs

QinetiQ North America will provide a range of support services to the Marine Corps under a three-year contract that has a maximum value of $17.4 million.

Army awards contract for vehicle intercom system

Northrop Grumman Cobham Intercoms LLC will supply the Army with an enhanced vehicular intercom system that is designed to take advantage of digital communications technology under a contract potentially worth $2.4 billion over 10 years.

DARPA considers taking supercomputing to the extreme

The Defense Department wants to take supercomputing to the next level by funding the development of a new breed of supercomputers that will be smarter and faster and yet smaller and require much less power than today's massive machines.

Mobility is 2009 Coalition Warrior demo's theme

This year's Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration focused on mobility, field-testing a new set of prototype command and control technologies by running them in a simulated operational environment.

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  • COOP: How to get multiple savings out of multiple duties Capt. Criston W. Cox

    Federal Computer Week will present Capt. Criston W. Cox, enterprise data systems officer and information technology officer for Multi-National Forces West, in an eSeminar at 11 a.m., Thursday, June 25, where he will discuss getting double duty from continuity of operations (COOP) investments by using disaster-recovery infrastructure. Read more

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