Defense

  • Raytheon has acquired Trusted Computer Solutions, a privately held company that delivers a comprehensive portfolio of cross-domain, operating system and network security solutions.

    November 05, 2010
  • Yemen has been a trouble spot for more than a decade and explosives have always been the problem and they\'ve always been relatively small. It was in 1998 that the U.S.S. Cole, a Navy Destroyer was attack while in Yemen. 17 sailors were killed and 39 were injured. A small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, leaving a 40-by-40-foot gash in the ship\'s port side. The toner cartridges with the explosive PETN in them that were discovered aboard planes in the UK and Dubai last week contained only a small amount, but had they gone off, they would\'ve inflicted maximum damage.

    November 04, 2010
  • Rival teams from Lockheed Martin and Austal USA have been waiting all year to see which of their designs would be chosen for the U.S. Navy\'s Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) competition. Now, if the Navy gets permission from the lame-duck Congress, the winner could be: both.

    November 04, 2010
  • Tom Temin spoke with Army Major Mark Cervantes, assistant product manager for the Infantry Brigade Combat Team from the White Sands Missile Range in New Mexico, about how network integration is getting intelligence into the hands of combat troops on the battlefield.

    November 03, 2010
  • The Army has filled two of its highest acquisition jobs. Heidi Shyu has been appointed principal deputy assistant secretary for acquisition, logistics and technology. Scott Fish is its new chief scientist.

    November 03, 2010
  • Changes in the Pentagon\'s contracting process are taken from Jacques Gansler\'s 2007 report commissioned by Army Secretary Pete Geren.

    November 02, 2010
  • Ray Bjorklund, senior vice president and chief knowledge officer at FedSources, discussed the confusion surrounding the Army\'s EAGLE contract.

    November 02, 2010
  • Army leaders promised to leave family support programs intact when looking for ways to lean out the service\'s massive budget.

    November 01, 2010
  • A pair of memos requires facilities worldwide to improve how they construct buildings to be more green and to use different light bulbs. The goal is to conserve energy, be environmentally responsible, and save taxpayer dollars.

    November 01, 2010
  • The Army Knowledge Online portal is one of the apps that is currently in use and evolving. Gary Winkler, head of the Army\'s Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems, talked about it with the DorobekINSIDER.

    October 28, 2010
  • Army Vice Chief of Staff General Peter Chiarelli stops short of saying the entire acquisition system should be scrapped but he is pushing for big changes.

    October 28, 2010
  • The service has reached an important first milestone in its effort to achieve a key energy conservation goal with last week\'s test of the first experimental ship to operate using algae-based bio-diesel fuel.

    October 28, 2010
  • On Thursday 109 cyber experts are graduating from the Air Force Institute of Technology in Ohio. The Institute\'s Brigadier General Walter Givhan and Dean Heidi Ries joined the DorobekINSIDER to discuss the Institute\'s history.

    October 27, 2010
  • DoD is preparing for massive budget cuts, but military officers warn not to touch career incentives.

    October 27, 2010

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