Search Results for: "Defense Information Systems Agency"
Getting Them SATCOMS And Services For The Feds Now In The Hands Of GSA
Relevance Score: 4.700 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 ...
DISA to spend $507 million for network security
Relevance Score: 4.450 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 ...
Cyber Command May Grab New DISA Headquarters.
Relevance Score: 4.444 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 ...
Satellite Launched By Missile Defense Agency.
Relevance Score: 4.399 2009-05-11 13:55:07
The U.S. Missile Defense Agency announced that The United States launched a satellite in order to detect and track missile flights. The launch took place at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California with support from NASA and the private United Launch Alliance (U.S. Missile Defense Agency release, 5May). The action is ...
GSA and DISA Form Satellite Communications Partnership
Relevance Score: 4.243 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 ...
DISA Ramps Up Cloud-Computing Platform.
Relevance Score: 3.889 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 ...
Sri Lanka to establish a space agency
Relevance Score: 3.828 2009-12-17 12:13:09
Sri Lankan government has taken measures to establish a space agency in Sri Lanka to improve the telecommunication technology in the country. Director General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Priyantha Kariyapperuma said that the preliminary assessments have already been made to explore the feasibility, state-owned Sri Lanka Broadcasting Corporation said. The new ...
General Dynamics To Support U.S Air Force Air Defense Communications Service 2.
Relevance Score: 3.796 2009-07-23 22:20:50
General Dynamics Information Technology has been awarded a contract by the Defense Information Technology Contracting Office to support the U.S. Air Force Air Defense Communications Service 2 program. The agreement covers one base year with four option years and has a total potential value of $67.7 million if all options are ...
US Military’s Pacific Network Goes with Verizon
Relevance Score: 3.738 2009-05-29 12:11:59
Verizon Business Network Services Inc. in Ashburn, VA won a $2.5 billion under the firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/ indefinite-quantity Defense Information Systems Network (DISN) transmission services – Pacific II (DTS-P II) contract. In return, they will provide end-to-end transmission services and capabilities essential to the USA’s Defense Information System Network – Pacific, ...
DISA Will Use Telework To Retain Displaced Employees.
Relevance Score: 3.542 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 ...
French military satellite launch delayed
Relevance Score: 3.531 2009-12-09 20:36:36
The Arianespace center has confirmed on its official website that the Wednesday launch of the French military observation satellite Helios 2B was postponed for several days, as an "anomaly of the launcher" was found. The lift-off was originally scheduled at around 17:26 Paris time (1626 GMT) from the Kourou launch ...
Verizon Awarded DoD IT Hosting Contract
Relevance Score: 3.361 2009-03-12 01:57:20
Under a new contract awarded by the US Defense Information Systems Agency, Verizon Business (www.verizonbusiness.com) will provide network and data services to the US Department of Defense at military installations and other government sites around the world. According to Verison's Wednesday announcement, the 10 year Defense Information System Network Transmission Services ...
Missile-tracking Satellites Launched On Demo Flight.
Relevance Score: 3.320 2009-10-03 11:32:31
A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket roared to life and thundered away from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station Friday, successfully boosting a pair of experimental missile-tracking satellites into orbit for the U.S. Missile Defense Agency. A United Launch Alliance Delta 2 rocket blasts off from the Cape Canaveral ...
Joint IP Modem Contract Calls For Continued Globecomm Production.
Relevance Score: 3.295 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 ...
SAP project with German military stalls
Relevance Score: 3.249 2009-01-16 16:49:07
Software maker SAP is taking some heat for a stalled information technology project within the German federal government, according to a report. The German Federal Armed Forces has delayed using a new set of bookkeeping applications from SAP due to problems installing the software, according to an article published Thursday in ...
Updated Global Information Grid Would Bring Web 2.0 to the Defense Department
Relevance Score: 3.228 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 ...
ATCi's Warrior Satellite Surveillance and Monitoring System Opens Up Law Enforcement Agency Markets to Voice, Video and Data
Relevance Score: 3.215 2009-07-06 21:08:00
Antenna Technology Communications Inc., a provider of commercial satellite communications systems, today announced the deployment of its Warrior Satellite Monitoring and Surveillance System specific for the law enforcement agency markets. The Warrior Satellite Monitoring System can simultaneously provide complete observation for satellite activities spread over 140 degrees, but with the added ...
MDA contracted to deliver the national communications satellite system of Ukraine
Relevance Score: 3.203 2009-12-15 16:29:33
MacDonald, Dettwiler and Associates Ltd. (TSX: MDA), a provider of essential information solutions, announced today that it has signed a $254 million dollar (US) contract to provide a communication satellite system to the National Space Agency of Ukraine (NSAU). The financing for this project is provided by Export Development Canada ...
Raytheon Submits Final Proposal for GBS Transition Contract
Relevance Score: 3.146 2009-04-01 13:28:38
March 31, 2009 Raytheon Company, the 11-year Global Broadcast Service solution provider, has submitted its final proposal for the U.S. Air Force GBS Satellite Broadcast Manager Defense Enterprise Computing Center Transition contract. GBS is a worldwide intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance support system providing military forces with high-speed, high-volume multimedia broadcasts of ...
DISA To Deploy New Command-Control Software Suite.
Relevance Score: 3.111 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. ...
GSA, DISA collaborate on satellite contracts
Relevance Score: 3.093 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 ...
Top 10 World-Wide Defense Contractors
Relevance Score: 3.092 2009-07-01 09:18:32
Below is a list of the world’s top ten defense contractors ordered by greatest to least revenue. The Defense Contractors below provide most of the weapons systems, aircraft, electronic systems, and other military technology we have here at future firepower. Throughout our website you will find references to these defense ...
A space agency to be established in Sri Lanka.
Relevance Score: 3.079 2009-12-16 16:00:52
Director General of the Telecommunication Regulatory Commission Priyantha Kariyapperuma states that a space agency to be establish in Sri Lanka. He added that preliminary assessments have already been done in this regard. While participating a media briefing Mr. Kariyapperuma explained that the new agency will help to developments in many ...
The new age of satellite
Relevance Score: 3.046 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, ...
Bolivia Creates Space Agency for Chinese Satellite
Relevance Score: 3.035 2010-02-11 11:29:07
Bolivia said Wednesday it will create a space agency to manage and execute a satellite project of Chinese companies to improve communications in the country. The Bolivian Space Agency will promote technology transfer, human resources training and the application of satellite communication programs in education, defense, medicine and detection of climate ...
Hughes Signs Agreement with the Brazilian State of Santa Catarina
Relevance Score: 3.025 2009-04-22 17:15:40
Hughes Network Systems the global leader of satellite broadband network and services has signed a contract with the State of Santa Catarina Administration Department in Brasil, to provide broadband satellite to state's agency. Company deliver services such as:voice, data, and video to 423 agency locations in this state. Key benefits of ...
Vietnam Will Put Their First SatReceiving Station Into Action.
Relevance Score: 2.971 2009-07-07 00:04:16
The Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment in Vietnam stated the country's first satellite image receiving station will be inaugurated in early July — this being informed the Vietnam News Agency. Nguyen Xuan Lam, Director of the ministry's National Remote Sensing Center, informed the station for the satellite image receiver ...
Satellite development delays cost DOD $1B
Relevance Score: 2.935 2009-06-29 12:28:32
The Defense Department will launch a new generation of communications satellites to serve mobile users in 2009, even though it has no funds for satellite receivers. Meanwhile, DOD is spending $1 billion a year on commercial broadband satellite service because of schedule delays in developing advanced military broadband satellite systems. The ...
Russia launches US satellite
Relevance Score: 2.855 2009-12-31 14:08:37
"The launch went as planned, the satellite will reach its orbit at" 0932 GMT, an official from Russia's Roskosmos space agency was quoted as saying by the RIA Novosti news agency. The DirectTV-12 satellite is due to provide communications, Internet and satellite television services for US customers.
DOD Rethinking Build Versus Buy For Software Apps.
Relevance Score: 2.819 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 ...
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