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 forefront — 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, company and brigade becomes a node on the network…That’s the Defense Department’s vision of a fully networked battlefield, made possible by technologies that DOD already is funding or through independent research and development by communications technology providers. ”
DOD develops radio technologies to overcome spectrum limitations — 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.”
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 to translate your experience into civilian terms.
Medical imagery applications can be demanding. To view medical images at full size, you need a high-resolution monitor with beaucoup screen real estate. And because of the variations in monitor brightness — even on monitors of the same brand — you need to be able to calibrate displays to a single standard.
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