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Clips 2009
Army fuses airborne sensor lab with ground networks — Defense Systems
At the Army’s C4ISR On-the-Move Event 2009 in September, Lockheed Martin Corp. demonstrated its new Airborne Multi-Intelligence Laboratory. The AML aircraft, a repurposed Gulfstream III corporate jet, was converted to a test platform for evaluating the integration of multiple intelligence-gathering sensors onboard a single aircraft. The flight team includes analysts who correlate the intelligence data [...]
Army demos electronic jammer for helicopters — Defense Systems
The Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Command CERDEC has demonstrated a new system that can be used both to locate electronic emitters on the battlefield — radios, remote-controlled improvised explosive devices, radars and other sources of electromagnetic radiation used by a potential adversary — and then jam them. The system, called Sledgehammer, “is a [...]
Cyber-overhaul – C4ISRJournal.com – Military Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance
U.S. defense officials are insisting that by reorganizing their cybersecurity strategy to give new powers to the director of the National Security Agency, they are not attempting a power grab. The military will continue to focus on protecting its own networks, they said, rather than expanding the military’s role to protecting civilian-run electrical and transportation [...]
X-band offers cure for congested spectrum — Defense Systems
Operations in Southwest Asia have created an insatiable demand for satellite communications capacity — a demand that commercial providers have largely filled. However, DOD has to compete for available capacity on commercial satellites with media and telecommunications companies and other high-volume satellite communications customers. One of those providers is Xtar, a joint venture of Loral Space [...]
Sturdy containers offer shelter from the storm for network equipment — Defense Systems
Making relatively small electronics rugged enough for use in extreme environments, such as the deserts of Iraq and mountains of Afghanistan, is a major challenge. But what if you need more than a laptop computer with you, perhaps a whole network operations center — from loading the equipment on a plane, truck or helicopter to [...]
Navy lays course for Second Fleet migration to NMCI — Defense Systems
The Navy Marine Corps Intranet is entering the last year of its contracted life. After 10 years, the network has become one of the most reliable and secure networks in the Defense Department after starting as a frequent target of ridicule for what some involved with the program characterize as justified complaints. As evidence of [...]
DISA’s rebalancing act — Defense Systems
The Defense Information Systems Agency has historically faced the challenge of distributing information and supporting the systems that deliver it all over the world — serving customers in locations ranging from the Oval Office to Afghanistan’s Helmand province. During the past 10 years, DISA also has needed to find ways to provide more of those [...]
DISA to rely on existing contracts — Defense Systems
The Defense Information Systems Agency isn’t just trying to increase efficiency with its technology base. The agency’s procurement team, led by DISA Component Acquisition Executive Tony Montemarano, is building a strategy based on avoiding the creation of new contracts. “Given the statutory and regulatory boundaries, like water, we tend to take the path of least [...]
Defense Systems – DISA aims for smooth operations across business lines — Defense Systems
With John Garings elevation from Defense Information Systems Agency chief information officer to director of strategic planning, Bobbie Stempfley has stepped into the CIO role. While Garing focuses on long-term strategy and developing program objectives within DISAs budget, Stempfley has taken on what she calls the more finely defined role of managing the agencys ongoing [...]
DISA to deploy new command-control software suite — Government Computer News
The Defense Information Systems Agency has cleared the last hurdle for full deployment of Global Command and Control System–Joint GCCS-J Block V, the last planned version of the suite of software that gives the national leadership and joint commanders tools to analyze situations and direct military units in the field. Cheryl Roby, acting assistant secretary [...]
Healthcare enters the cloud-Government Health IT
Like client-server, Web applications and services-oriented architecture before it, cloud computing is capturing the imagination of health IT system developers. But just like a cloud, the term “cloud computing” is nebulous – people see different things when they look at it, depending on their perspective. So defining its value to healthcare organizations can be a [...]
Tech refresh brings HD video to Aegis — Defense Systems
When the Aegis combat system was deployed on USS Ticonderoga in 1982, its display technology was state of the art and almost entirely based on hardware and software created specifically for that job. But today, the latest generations of Navy data display systems are being built mostly from commercial hardware and increasingly with free and [...]
DISA director emphasizes contractor workforce importance — Defense Systems
Lt. Gen. Carroll Pollett, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, reiterated the importance of the contract workforce to DISA at an industry presentation Aug. 7, especially, he said, as the agency faces moving its staff to Fort Meade, Md., next year. DISA director emphasizes contractor workforce importance — Defense Systems.
Cyber-overhaul – C4ISRJournal.com
“U.S. defense officials are insisting that by reorganizing their cybersecurity strategy to give new powers to the director of the National Security Agency, they are not attempting a power grab. The military will continue to focus on protecting its own networks, they said, rather than expanding the military’s role to protecting civilian-run electrical and transportation [...]
iRobot pushes robots into new territory — Defense Systems
iRobot pushes robots into new territory — Defense Systems.
ThinkPad W700 Review — FedTech Magazine
ThinkPad W700 Review — FedTech Magazine .
On TheLadders – Getting the Job When You’re Overqualified
“Earlier this decade, a movement called “downshifting” sprung up among older professionals who sought to simplify their lives and have more time for family, pet projects and personal fulfillment off the clock. Now, the recession has brought a whole new spin to downshifting. Senior-level professionals accustomed to high salaries have lowered the expectations they have [...]
July 2009 clips
C4ISR Journal: “An empire challenged” – preview of the Empire Challenge coalition information-sharing exercise. Defense Systems: DISA ‘private cloud’ serves as personnel system — Defense Systems Forge.mil, SIPRNet collaboration begins — Defense Systems Open-source invasion requires defense contractors to form strategic plans — Defense Systems (A vendor profile of Sun Federal Systems) Radars perform double [...]
June 2009 clips
“New Partners” — C4ISR Journal (National Geospatial Intelligence Agency CRADA programs) Satcom at a crossroads — Defense Systems DOD develops radio technologies to overcome spectrum limitations — Defense Systems DOD moves network security to the forefront — Defense Systems TheLadders: Aging Workforce- Staying in the Game Health care enters the cloud –Government Health IT
DOD moves network security to the forefront — Defense Systems
Call it the “new normal.” Constant efforts to breach the Defense Department’s networks and data security, along with attempts to deny access to networks and applications, have put DOD’s network warriors under increasing strain. Unrelenting cyberattacks also are raising the standards for how the military manages information networks. via DOD moves network security to the [...]
DOD develops radio technologies to overcome spectrum limitations — Defense Systems
“Picture this: A combat fire team fans out on a city block, and each soldier is connected to the rest of the platoon by a radio that provides location data and voice communications. Data and voice push through a sea of communications traffic, filling every available bit of electromagnetic spectrum. Each soldier in the platoon, [...]
Satcom at a crossroads — Defense Systems
‘The need for more data communications in far-flung parts of the world is driving the Defense Department’s insatiable demand for satellite communications services. But with the Transformational Communications Satellite (TSAT) program potentially canceled, or at best delayed, it might be years before DOD can field a high-bandwidth communications satellite with the capabilities slotted for TSAT.” [...]
TheLadders-Fatigues to Pinstripes
Sizing up the leap from a military career to the private sector? Take some tips on how to land ex military jobs from Mark Henderson, a retired Army colonel and one of the founders of Palladian International, an executive-search firm based in Waynesboro, Va. Bottom line: Don’t narrow your search too quickly, and don’t try too hard [...]
May 2009 clips
Mattis: C4ISR needs to empower small units — Defense Systems Data-at-rest team takes on USB drives — Defense Systems Blue Force gets capacity boost — Defense Systems TheLadders.com: Your Camouflage Parachute: Work After the Military
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