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Army's CERDEC sets up office for getting C4ISR gear home from Iraq

The Army’s CECOM Lifecycle Management Command has formed a special project office to help handle the logistics of returning all the C4ISR gear that got sent to Iraq as part of the drawdown of forces.   The Ft. Monmouth command, which is in the midst of preparing for a move of its own–to Aberdeen Proving Grounds,  as part of the Base Realignment and Closure (BRAC) move of the Army’s C4ISR organization. From an Army.mil story:

In line with the current agreement to pull U.S. troops out of Iraq by 2011, CECOM LCMC has stood up the Drawdown Special Project Office (SPO) to coordinate the successful drawdown of the vast amount of command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (C4ISR) equipment fielded in Iraq over the past six years.

via Forecasting a massive equipment tsunami, special project oversees orderly drawdown from Iraq .

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Army, Northrop Grumman, Sensors, weapons systems

Northrop Grumman, SELEX GALILEO Team up again on IR countermeasures for U.S. Army Program

Announcing another strategic alliance with a European defense company, today Northrop Grumman Corporation revealed it had teamed with  SELEX Galileo, a Finmeccanica company, to compete for the U.S. Army’s Common Infrared Countermeasures (CIRCM) program.

SELEX Galileo, as noted in B&B recently, is assisting the Pakistani government in its development of its own UAV capability.

CIRCM is a US Army program to provide light and medium helicopters with a laser-based defense against infrared-seeking antiaircraft missiles and other IR “current and future IR threat systems.”  Northrop/SELEX Galileo’s proposed system for CIRCM program, uses the ECLIPSE micro pointer/tracker, a  relatively low-cost compact lightweight stabilized laser transmitter, designed for an earlier Northrop Grumman directed CIRCM system, NEMESIS, integrating it into a new”4th generation lightweight, highly reliable Directional Infrared Countermeasures (DIRCM) system specifically designed for medium and light helicopter protection.” (from Northrop’s release).

via Northrop Grumman and SELEX GALILEO Team to Compete for U.S. Army’s Common Infrared Countermeasures Program (NYSE:NOC).

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