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U.S. Army communicators are focusing on providing key enabling technologies to warfighters who already are exploiting new networking capabilities. The urgencies of warfare, coupled with emerging communications requirements, have mandated that engineers concentrate on the user end of connectivity.

The future of U.S. Army networks is evolving at Fort Bliss, Texas, through the development, testing and exercising of technologies that range from apps to cognitive networks. Though the initiatives are separate efforts, combined field events and close physical proximity are creating synergy between developers. As the work moves forward, successful outcomes will change how soldiers communicate at home and in the field.

Whether it is floods in the Midwest United States, earthquakes and tsunamis in Japan, blizzard conditions in Washington, D.C., or hurricanes in the Gulf of Mexico, one does not have to go far these days to see that natural disasters are becoming a bigger part of life. Nowhere does that reality come into focus more than at the nation’s military bases, where troops face the triple challenge of maintaining a state of readiness prior to disasters, working to serve as recovery resources, and being good neighbors where possible to the local communities they call home.

Tapestry Solutions Incorporated, San Diego, California, was awarded an approximate $11 million firm-fixed-price, cost-reimbursable contract for the mana

Science Applications International Corporation, McLean, Virginia, was awarded more than $78 million for coordinating, integrating, conducting and executing experiments in support of the Maneuver Battl

Raytheon Company, Fullerton, California, was awarded more than $70 million for the engineering and integration, logistical and field support, and post deployment software service support for the Enhan

The effort to field mobile devices down to the squad level continues as the U.S. Defense Department certifies security credentials for the iPhone and Android operating systems. However, the arduous accreditation process still poses many hurdles for the military as it moves toward a more mobile communications environment.

Rodale Electronics Incorporated, Hauppauge, New York, was awarded about $23 million for Enhanced Position Location Reporting systems dual power adapters

Tantus-OnPoint ATO Systems Support LLC, Arlington, Virginia, was awarded a $400 million indefinite-delivery / indefinite-quantity, multiple-award-task-order contract between 16 contractors. The a

R4 Incorporated, Eatontown, New Jersey, was awarded about $9 million for contractor logistic support on various improvised explosive device defeat/protect force eq