Defense issues long-awaited wireless policy
Policy requires all DOD personnel, contractors and visitors entering Defense facilities to encrypt unclassified information transmitted wirelessly.
Navy creates $10 billion systems support vehicle
The Naval Sea Systems Command has awarded 151 systems support contracts that could be worth more than $10 billion jointly.
$10B Air Force networking program RFP is out
The Air Force released a request for proposals for its $10 billion Network Centric Solutions program last Friday after several months of delay. The program will be a multiple-award, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity acquisition to provide a wide variety of IT products, solutions and services.
Army awards contract for upgrade at NETCOM
The Army has purchased 375,000 licenses for software from Quest Software Inc.
DOD proposes new acquisition rules
The Defense Department this week proposed publishing 14 rules in the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement that would streamline the acquisition process.
Tactical radio architecture ready to roll
The Defense Department is edging closer to delivering new DOD-wide digital radio systems.
Army KICCs off $4b communications project in Kuwait, Iraq
Contractors will begin taking over about 180 voice, data and video nodes at 100 bases and camps in Southwest Asia under an Army program set to begin this spring.
Navy starts new round of e-business pilots
The Navy's eBusiness Operations Office this week selected $3.8 million worth of first-round projects for fiscal 2004, ranging from software to streamline evaluation to systems to improve data accessibility.
Lockheed Martin snares massive Pentagon comm deal
The Air Force Pentagon Communications Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin Corp. a multimillion contract to provide IT products and services to 15,000 users?many at or near the Pentagon.
Future Combat Systems training plan set
Northrop Grumman Corp. has been hired to develop training for the Army Future Combat Systems program office.
Tech executive nominated for Defense CIO
Francis Joseph Harvey, a Maryland technology company executive, has been nominated to replace Defense Department CIO John Stenbit, who plans to retire.
Navy signs deal for NKO portal upgrade
Appian Corp. will upgrade the Navy Knowledge Online enterprise portal.
Contractors refine work on Air Force C2 subsystem
The Air Force has chosen three contractors to compete to develop the Battle Management Command and Control subsystem for the agency's new $60 billion E-10A Multisensor C2 aircraft.
Cuviello joins Lockheed Martin
Retired Lt. Gen. Peter Cuviello, former Army chief information officer and director of command, control, communications and computers, has joined Lockheed Martin Corp.'s Mission Systems as vice president of information infrastructure.
Legislation would give first responders access to military technologies
Congress is considering legislation that would help first responders take advantage of the military's advanced technologies.
Four get Army ITES computer contracts
Contracts, worth $500 million, go to Dell, GTSI, Hewlett-Packard and Lockheed Martin IS.
DOD reveals biometrics plan
The Defense Department will use biometrics in its systems to improve physical and cyber security by 2010.
Army battlefield net development begins
The Army has begun the development and demonstration phase of its $10 billion Warfighter Information Network-Tactical project.
Defense Dept. puts Iraq mobile telecom up for bids
Iraq's Coalition Provisional Authority will award three 24-month contracts for regional mobile phone licenses by early September, a Defense Department official said today.
Pentagon pulls the plug on PAM
The Pentagon today squashed a controversial web-based terrorism-betting plan, promoted online by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, before the effort became reality.
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