L-3 Comms Completes Trials Of US Army Warfighter Information Network
New York NY (SPX) Feb 13, 2006
L-3 Communications has announced that its Microwave Group (L-3 Microwave Group) successfully completed demonstration and trials of several L-3 Communications products designed to support the U.S. Army's Warfighter Information Network - Tactical (WIN-T) initiative.
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QDR, Budget Mesh For Air Force Future
Washington DC (SPX) Feb 14, 2006
Air Force officials announced Feb. 6 how the service's budget will mesh with the Department of Defense quadrennial defense review, creating an overall financial plan for the service's future.
LockMart Awarded Two Billion Dollar Military Communications Network Contract
San Jose CA (SPX) February 08, 2006
Lockheed Martin has been awarded a $2 billion contract to lead the development of an advanced Air Force network that will provide a new level of high-bandwidth, secure, global communications to transform the speed of command and provide a vital information link to deployed mobile forces.
Northrop Grumman Blue Force Tracking Revolutionizes Joint STARS Employment
Melbourne FL (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
Northrop Grumman, in partnership with the U.S. Air Force and U.S. Army, is implementing Force XXI Battle Command, Brigade and Below (FBCB2) Blue Force Tracking capability on the Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System (Joint STARS).
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Xtar Signs Master Service Agreements With Key Government Services Organizations
Rockville MD (SPX) Feb 06, 2006
XTAR has signed master service agreements with General Dynamics Satellite Communications Services and Stratos Mobile Networks, two prominent government communications services companies.
Boeing Delivers First JTRS Cluster 1 Radios To FCS Program
St. Louis MO (SPX) Feb 02, 2006
Boeing and teammates BAE Systems, Rockwell Collins and Northrop Grumman have delivered the first seven Joint Tactical Radio System Cluster 1 (JTRS C1) radios, as scheduled, to the U.S. Army's Future Combat Systems (FCS) program. Additional units will be delivered to the FCS program in increments, to bring the total number of radios to 50 by late summer.
Raytheon Demonstrates Network Centric Lock-On-After-Launch Maverick
Tucson AZ (SPX) Feb 02, 2006
Raytheon has successfully demonstrated the capability of the Maverick Lock-On-After- Launch (LOAL) program in a series of captive flight tests.
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US Air Force Awards Lockheed Martin Contract For 3rd Advanced MilComms Sat
Sunnyvale CA (SPX) Feb 01, 2006
The U.S. Air Force has awarded Lockheed Martin a contract for $491 million to build a third spacecraft for the Advanced Extremely High Frequency (Advanced EHF) program constellation. Advanced EHF satellites will provide global, highly secure, protected, survivable communications for all warfighters serving under the U.S. Department of Defense.
Army To Test Future Combat Systems At Fort Bliss
Washington (SPX) Jan 31, 2006
To further the development of the Future Combat Systems program, the Army is designating a combat unit to evaluate and test cutting-edge technology.
The Evaluation Brigade Combat Team, which will begin forming in March 2007, will be stationed at Fort Bliss, Texas.
Raytheon Acquisition Strengthens Position In Military Communications
Mckinney TX (SPX) Jan 26, 2006
Raytheon has acquired Houston Associates, a privately held company with proficiency in developing and operating mission-critical networks and network-centric command and control infrastructure applications, and in providing enterprise management services. HAI, based in Arlington, Va., will become part of Raytheon's Network Centric Systems business.
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ROBE Upgrade Sets KC-135 On Forefront Of Battle Communications
Fairchild Air Force Base WA (SPX) Jan 21, 2006
A KC-135 Stratotanker here was fitted with upgraded communications equipment recently which will revolutionize battle space and the way the United States and its allies fight wars.
Outside View: A Bad New Map
Washington (UPI) Jan 20, 2006
Among the critics and reinterpreters of Fourth Generation war, the bad is most powerfully represented by Thomas Barnett's two books "The Pentagon's New Map" and "Blueprint for Action." What Barnett advocates is bad in two senses: first, that it won't work, and second, that if it did work the result would be evil.
Commentary: 21St Century's Clausewitz
Washington (UPI) Jan 18, 2006
Basil H. Liddell Hart was long considered one of the world's foremost military thinkers - a man many experts regarded as the "Clausewitz of the 20th century." What Clausewitz was to war, Sun Tzu was to "The Art of War" 25 centuries ago. And what Mao Zedong was to guerrilla warfare, Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski was to Net-centric warfare.
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