Northrop to Provide GPS Support for Navy’s CH-53K Helicopter

Northrop Grumman Corporation has secured a follow-on contract from the Naval Air Systems Command to help integrate the LN-251 GPS systems on the U.S. Navy’s new CH-53K Super Stallion helicopter.

According to Northrop, the LN-251 system is run by a fiber-optic gyro-based measurement unit and is classified as the world’s lightest and most compact…

Agencies Hopping on Google Plus Bandwagon

NASA led the way in joining Google Plus, and now more federal agencies are quickly following.

The U.S. Navy, the U.S. Marine Corps, and the National Nuclear Security Administration, among other agencies, have now joined Google’s social network, according to a report from Information Week.

Originally only made available to individual users, Google Plus was…

Marines to Use Lockheed Smartphone Network for Disaster Relief Exercises

The U.S. Marine Corps will soon beginning using a Lockheed Martin-developed tactical smartphone network to support the service branch’s disaster relief mission exercises and humanitarian assistance.

The Marine Corps Forces Pacific Experimentation Center has acquired the MONAX system, a portable private 4G network that provides voice, data and video services through commercial smartphone technologies.

The network connects off-the-shelf smartphones…

Marine Corps Bans Twitter, Facebook, MySpace

Popular social networking sites including Twitter, MySpace and Facebook are banned from the U.S. Marine Corps for the next year, effective immediately. Other military branches are considering a similar ban.

The Marine Corps cited potential security breaches of government computers and malware attacks for the ban. Popular social networking sites have an increased potential for phising and malware attacks, a risk Marine officials are unwilling to take. However, internal networking programs within the U.S….