The proliferation of smartphones and technological innovations such as cloud computing could point to a new era for geospatial intelligence, according to a recent Defense Systems report. The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency is
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Defense authorizations approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee last week would impose a spending freeze for the department’s service contracts, amounting to a total of $1.1 billion in cuts. But Government
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Following the social disruptions and political upheaval of the Arab Spring, it should come as no surprise that monitoring social networks, such as Twitter, is quickly becoming an important intelligence-gathering technique. And
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Under a spending measure approved by the Senate Armed Services Committee, the Defense Department’s funding for service contracts would be cut down to 2010 levels, in what Federal News Radio said amounted
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The Senate Armed Services Committee has given its go-ahead to cut $6 billion from the Defense Department’s 2012 budget, according to a report in Defense News. The chairman of the panel, Sen.
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Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn III said the Defense Department needs the defense industry to take the long view as Pentagon budgets are expected to be cut. “Those of us in
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A new Government Accountability Office review has found that the requirements oversight phase of the acquisition process is ill-timed, when put into practice, according to a Defense News report. The GAO report
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Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates announced his recommendation of Navy Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, who currently serves as vice chief of naval operations, to be the next chief of naval operations. Current
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The Defense Department’s acquisition czar, Ashton Carter, said the department frowns on further defense consolidation at the level of the big players, adding DoD would even go so far as to block
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As he makes the final rounds of his public pronouncements as head of the Pentagon, Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates is warning of the specter of deep budget cuts. Speaking before the
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