Defense Systems

Signal regiment moves to COTS to improve efficiency

The Army Signal Corps will move to commercial off-the-shelf systems under new strategy to reduce manpower and improve training.

Defense Systems

Army wants more efficiency out of quick-reaction capabilities

Army Brig. Gen. Harold "Harry" Greene, program executive officer for intelligence, electronic warfare and sensors, discusses sensors, the Distributed Common Ground System-Army, cloud computing and fiscal responsibilities.

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JTRS radios and waveforms stretch the battlefield network

Brig. Gen. Michael Williamson, joint program executive officer for the Joint Tactical Radio System, discusses the latest developments for the JTRS radios and waveforms.

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WIN-T increments stretch the comms range

Col. Edward Swanson, project manager for the Army PEO C3T's WIN-T program, and his deputies discuss the next phases of the program.

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Army pushes command-post-type capabilities farther out to the edge

Brig. Gen. N. Lee S. Price, the Army program executive officer for command, control, communications (tactical), discusses the results of the latest Network Integration Exercise, command-and control on the move and the Afghan Mission Network.

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Army aims for optimum quality control of geospatial products

The Army Geospatial Center is helping DOD improve stewardship of geospatial products, says Joseph Fontanella, the center's director.

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Navy takes steps to boost operational IT

Navy CIO Terry Halvorsen discusses how the Navy is looking for efficiencies in business IT to make operational IT more effective.

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Army integration exercise will improve situational awareness

Defense Systems' staff visited Army facilities at Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands Missile Range, N.M., in May to learn first-hand about the technologies that went into the Network Integration Exercise.

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NGA makes real-time intell top priority

Barry Barlow talks about the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's acquisition strategy and finding technology enablers to get real-time geospatial intelligence into people's hands.

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Air Force CIO pushes for operational mindset

Lt. Gen. William Lord, Air Force chief of warfighting integration and CIO, talks about data center consolidation and cloud computing and how the service's network administrators operate with their fronts to the flight line instead of their backs.

Defense Systems

There's a lot at stake with military modernization programs

The eyes of all the military services are on DISA and its efforts to develop a private cloud of enterprise services for enhanced communication and collaboration across the Defense Department.

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Army builds smart-phone doctrine

The future doctrine of Army smart phones and mobile devices is being established with a focus on security, transport layers and applications, according to Col. Marisa Tanner, chief of the Mission Command Capabilities Division at the Army Brigade Modernization Command, and Michael McCarthy, director of operations at BMC's Mission Command Complex.

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Army tackles data center consolidation, enterprise e-mail

The Army CIO tackles data center consolidation and enterprise e-mail, two major projects that have significant interest across the Army and the Defense Department.

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In quest of the agnostic radio

Limited user tests under way this summer at White Sands Missile Range will focus on maturing two radio waveforms so they eventually can be ported to hardware agnostic radios.

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Army to field-test mature battlefield networks

Col. Richard Juergens, deputy commander of the Army Brigade Modernization Command, discusses this summer's Network Integration Exercise at Fort Bliss, Texas, and White Sands Missile Range, N.M.

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Air Force tightens buying process through NETCENTS-2

Maj. Gen. Wendy Masiello discusses the acquisition strategy behind the Air Force's Network Centric Solutions-2 program.

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Looking for a silver lining in military clouds

Two significant events with a bearing on military cloud computing occurred on the same day in the latter half of April.

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Small unmanned systems play outsized role in tactical operations

Technological advances for unmanned aircraft systems programs have facilitated new intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance missions for soldiers and Marines.

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Army lays groundwork for network integration on the battlefield

Col. John Wendel, Army deputy program executive officer for network integration, discusses the challenges and objectives of the Army's upcoming 2011 Network Integration Evaluation.

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DISA pursues broader, more efficient satellite services

Bruce Bennett, DISA's program executive officer for communications, discusses the desire for universality of transmission, key satellite services contracts and increased bandwidth from existing transmission pipes.