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DISA Will Use Telework To Retain Displaced Employees.

Relevance Score: 5.929    2009-09-09 17:10:59

Telework helps retain and attract well qualified employees, DISA HR report says.   Allowing employees to telework, at least part time, is one way the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) plans to retain employees as it relocates to Ft. Meade, Md., according to a published human resources plan.   By 2011, the ...

DISA And Wheelabrator Informed About A New Name.

Relevance Score: 5.291    2009-10-07 01:12:33

The German regulatory agency has officially notified DISA/Wheelabrator Group that it has met all requirements for a legal merger. The merged organization, becomes the world's leading provider of technology and services to improve metallic parts.   "This is a great day for the company," stated Robert E. Joyce Jr. president and ...

Cyber Command May Grab New DISA Headquarters.

Relevance Score: 4.106    2009-09-09 16:46:40

The U.S. Cyber Command, created to protect the military's digital networks from attack, is looking to locate its headquarters at Fort Meade, MD in a new complex that now is being constructed to house the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA).   The $390 million, 1-million-square-foot multi-building complex now under construction could ...

GSA, DISA collaborate on satellite contracts

Relevance Score: 3.998    2009-07-30 13:57:17

The General Services Administration and Defense Information Systems Agency will join forces to procure future commercial satellite communications. The joint strategy will tackle the impending expiration of contracts set to lapse between 2011 and 2012.   On August 6, GSA and DISA will hold a teleconference to announce details of the joint ...

DISA Ramps Up Cloud-Computing Platform.

Relevance Score: 3.806    2009-10-15 13:46:36

Military program managers frustrated by having to wait six months to get a server provisioned might want to take a look at the Defense Information Systems Agency's new cloud-computing offering. The agency is boasting that can provide a NIPRnet-connected, production-ready virtual server within 72 hours.   DISA informed that it has ...

DISA to spend $507 million for network security

Relevance Score: 3.495    2010-02-15 12:22:14

The US Defense Information Systems Agency, or DISA, is planning to spend $507.3 million for isolating military networks from the public internet, upgrading switches that manage secret VoIP communications, and providing field advanced satellite phones to troops in Afghanistan, according to The Nextgov.      The agency is planning to spend $87.9 million ...

DISA, GSA Streamline $5B Commercial SATCOM Procurement

Relevance Score: 3.030    2010-02-22 18:19:20

A 2004 study by the Satellite Industry Association found that 80% of all US military satellite communication during the 2003 US invasion of Iraq was carried on commercial satellites. Then-US assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration, John P. Stenbit, estimated that the US military purchased between $200 ...

Comsatcom Acquisition Could Be $700M Yearly

Relevance Score: 3.010    2010-01-03 13:14:11

The U.S. government is embarking on an comprehensive, 20-year program worth as much as $700 million per year to procure commercial satellite bandwidth and services to support the Defense Dept. and state and local agencies, including law enforcement offices.   This effort, called the Future Comsatcom Services Acquisition (FCSA) is intended to ...

DOD Rethinking Build Versus Buy For Software Apps.

Relevance Score: 2.980    2009-09-29 17:31:19

Over the past decade, the Defense Department, and federal agencies in general, have embraced the idea of using commercial-off-the-shelf (COTS) software whenever possible. Why build when it's less expensive to buy? Why reinvent the wheel?   But the DOD is undertaking a number of initiatives that seem to be questioning this ...

Joint IP Modem Contract Calls For Continued Globecomm Production.

Relevance Score: 2.807    2009-10-27 01:53:54

Globecomm Systems Inc. (NASDAQ: GCOM) has informed the U.S. Army has exercised a $2.3 million contract option for the continued production of the Joint IP Modem (JIPM).   On November, 12, 2007, the Company informed that it had been awarded a contract from the U.S. Army’s Communications—Electronic Life Cycle Management Command ...

GSA and DISA Form Satellite Communications Partnership

Relevance Score: 2.699    2009-08-12 15:07:26

The U.S. General Services Administration and the Defense Information Systems Agency are creating a common marketplace for commercial satellite communication services with a goal of providing significant savings to defense and civilian agencies, as well as state, local and tribal governments. GSA provides a centralized delivery system of products and ...

Come Together: DISA, GSA Streamline $5B Commercial SATCOM Procurement

Relevance Score: 2.386    2010-02-23 16:41:04

A 2004 study by the Satellite Industry Association found that 80% of all US military satellite communication during the 2003 US invasion of Iraq was carried on commercial satellites. Then-US assistant secretary of defense for networks and information integration, John P. Stenbit, estimated that the US military purchased between $200 ...

Getting Them SATCOMS And Services For The Feds Now In The Hands Of GSA

Relevance Score: 2.073    2009-08-24 00:33:52

The General Services Administration will manage the purchase of $5 billion worth of commercial satellite services during the next 10 years for all federal agencies, including the Defense Department, under an agreement informed.   According to the pact between the agency and the Defense Information Systems Agency, GSA will manage the ...

Maxwell To Undergo DISA Enhanced Compliance Validation.

Relevance Score: 1.948    2009-09-17 20:20:03

Maxwell will undergo a Defense Information Systems Agency Enhanced Compliance Validation, or ECV, network inspection Sept. 28 through Oct. 2. “The ECV is very similar to an Operational Readiness Inspection, or a Nuclear Surety Inspection, of our secure and non-secure networks,” informed Major Gerald Yap, 42nd Communications Flight commander.   Col. ...

MRV Displays Secure IP Intelligence at 7 Military Technology Expos

Relevance Score: 1.694    2009-07-24 12:57:13

MRV Communications said that it is participating in seven military technology expos organized by National Conference Services throughout Germany between July 20 and July 31. MRV is a networking company with a full line of packet-optical transport (POTS), carrier Ethernet, 40G networking and out-of-band networking products.   The company will showcase its FIPS ...

Rockwell Collins To Maintain Satcom Teleport at Ramstein Air Base

Relevance Score: 1.681    2010-01-22 15:25:42

Rockwell Collins received a 3-year, $9.1 million contract to provide maintenance and field service support for the satellite communications teleport at Ramstein Air Base in Germany. A teleport is a group of satellite dishes that connect communications satellites with the ground telecom network.     The delivery order calls for Rockwell Collins to ...

$2.5B DOD contract for Verizon Business

Relevance Score: 1.629    2009-04-02 14:33:30

Verizon Business has won a contract worth up about $2.5 billion. The contract is to provide network and data services at several locations belonging to US Department of Defence.   Under the new contract awarded by the DISA (Defense Information Systems Agency), the Ashburn-based federal group of Verizon Communications Inc. will provide ...

Artel Takes It To SES WORLD SKIES To Meet Demands in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

Relevance Score: 1.537    2009-09-23 21:52:31

SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Paris:SESG)(LUxX:SESG), informed that it has inked a multi-transponder deal with Artel to help the leading integrator meet growing U.S. government demand for end-to-end communications networks throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Artel will use four full Ku-band transponders (144 megahertz) on ...

Voice over IP builds bridge to the future of DOD comms

Relevance Score: 1.529    2009-07-16 23:30:16

Although military technologists sometimes talk about the Global Information Grid in the present tense, one element of the GIG vision that is still in the works is the implementation of a global everything-over-IP network that allows phone, videoconferencing and other synchronous communications to ride over the same IP network that ...

Artel Takes It To SES WORLD SKIES To Meet Demands in Europe, The Middle East And Asia.

Relevance Score: 1.515    2009-09-22 22:29:01

SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Paris:SESG)(LUxX:SESG), informed it has signed a multi-transponder deal with Artel to help the leading integrator meet growing U.S. government demand for end-to-end communications networks throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia. Artel will use four full Ku-band transponders (144 megahertz) on the ...

Artel Signs Major Capacity Agreement With SES WORLD SKIES To Extend U.S. Government Communications Capabilities In Europe, The Middle East And Asia.

Relevance Score: 1.484    2009-09-16 13:01:07

Delivering connectivity where it’s needed most, SES WORLD SKIES, a division of SES S.A. (Paris:SESG)(LUxX:SESG), informed it has inked a multi-transponder deal with Artel to help the leading integrator meet growing U.S. government demand for end-to-end communications networks throughout Europe, the Middle East and Asia.   Artel will use four full ...

DISA To Deploy New Command-Control Software Suite.

Relevance Score: 1.453    2009-09-04 18:15:28

The Defense Information Systems Agency has cleared the last hurdle for full deployment of Global Command and Control System–Joint (GCCS-J) Block V, the last planned version of the suite of software that gives the national leadership and joint commanders tools to analyze situations and direct military units in the field. ...

The new age of satellite

Relevance Score: 1.449    2010-03-04 14:23:35

As far as technologies go, satellite networking has had more ups and downs than a humiliated reality TV star.   The space-based services, which can be used for voice and data transmissions, are frequently on the losing side of comparisons with sexier, newer wireless technologies. Meanwhile, corporate bankruptcies and grounded government programs, ...

List of satellite operators

Relevance Score: 1.209    2000-04-06 01:21:43

ACeS - ASIA Cellular Satellite Air Force Space and Missile System Center Air Force Space Command AMSAT - The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation APT Satellite - APT Group Holding Arabsat Asia Broadcast Satellite Asia Cellular Satellite Asia Satellite Communications Asiasat Assuresat Astrolink AstroVision Avanti Communications Binariang Satellite Systems BQT Solutions Broadcasting Satellite ...

Updated Global Information Grid Would Bring Web 2.0 to the Defense Department

Relevance Score: 1.134    2009-07-16 23:43:28

Frustrated that the different communications networks deployed by its four branches aren’t always able to speak to one another, the Defense Department is moving forward with a major overhaul of its global information grid.   The grid is the network of computer systems and intranets used to securely store, process and move ...

DOD's reliance on commercial satellites hits new zenith

Relevance Score: 1.006    2010-03-04 14:19:21

The U.S. military is increasingly turning to the private sector for many of the services it relies on. After the supply of energy and terrestrial fiber communications, satellite communications is the top capability that the U.S. military relies on the private sector to deliver.     Industry experts estimate that 80 percent of ...

Military Continues To Influence Commercial Operators

Relevance Score: 0.702    2009-03-03 13:25:41

    Faced with a shortage of military satellite communications capacity, the U.S. government has increasingly turned to commercial operators to close the bandwidth gap. Roughly 80 percent of all U.S. government and military traffic is carried over commercial satellites, and while the tempo of U.S. military activity in Iraq and Afghanistan ...

New Report Just Published Military Communications & COTS 2009-2019: A Market in Retreat?

Relevance Score: 0.505    2009-07-26 17:07:07

Adoption of new commercially-available platforms and technologies has fuelled a global military communications industry worth more than $15bn per annum. Prime beneficiaries of this trend have included suppliers of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products and services to the military. Given the onset of the global economic recession in late 2008 and ...

New Report Just Published Military Communications & COTS 2009-2019: A Market in Retreat?

Relevance Score: 0.505    2009-07-26 20:39:38

Adoption of new commercially-available platforms and technologies has fuelled a global military communications industry worth more than $15bn per annum. Prime beneficiaries of this trend have included suppliers of commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) products and services to the military. Given the onset of the global economic recession in late 2008 and ...

 

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