by Joe Katzman | Oct 30, 2013 | Boeing, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Contracts - Modifications, IT - Networks & Bandwidth, Lockheed Martin, New Systems Tech, Raytheon, Satellites & Sensors, Small Business, Spotlight articles, Support & Maintenance, USA
GBS Concept & Elements(click to view full) Pentagon contracts occasionally refer to the Global Broadcast Services (GBS), a system linked to the Wideband SATCOM program. A variant was first fielded in Bosnia during 1996, and special nodes were also set up in the...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 29, 2013 | Australia & S. Pacific, BAE, Boeing, Contracts - Awards, Design Innovations, Elbit Systems, IAI, Interoperability, Israel, New Systems Tech, Other Corporation, Rumours, Textron, UAVs
ADF RQ-7B Shadow(click to view full) In December 2006, Australia bought a new tactical UAV to go with the Israeli Skylark mini-UAV. Australian Minister of Defence Senator Hill said the Government had agreed to the A$ 145 million (USD $109 million) UAV project to...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 27, 2013 | Events, Issues - Political, IT - General, Policy - Personnel, Scandals & Investigations, USA
Former National Security Council (NSC) non-proliferation staffer and potential Pentagon AT&L advisor Jofi Joseph isn’t the first person to be undone by social media, and he won’t be the last. The inconvenient truth is that social media security...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 24, 2013 | Blimps & LTA Craft, C4ISR, Contracts - Awards, Industry & Trends, Northrop-Grumman, Other Corporation, Partnerships & Consortia, R&D - Contracted, T&C - SAIC, Textron, USA, Warfare - Lessons, Warfare - Trends
LEMV concept(click to view full) The rise of modern terrorism, sharply increasing costs to recruit and equip professional soldiers, and issues of energy security, are forcing 2 imperatives on modern armies. Modern militaries need to be able to watch wide areas for...
by Joe Katzman | Oct 23, 2013 | Corporate Innovations, Field Innovations, Logistics, Logistics Innovations
Ex Lab(click to view full) What do a fresh look at what “logistics” means, the ongoing electronics revolution, new manufacturing techniques, and the social norms and movements arising from these trends, have in common? Within the US Army, the answer is the...
