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AKO to add blogging, wikis and Facebook-like features as it approaches its billionth user served
In a session on the "State of the Union" of Army Knowledge Online and Defense Knowledge Online, AKO/DKO project manager Col. Earl Nobel said that additional Web 2.0 capabilities, including blogging, wikis and a social networking function similar to Facebook, will be added.
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iDirect launches rugged satellite hub to support mobile networks
The satellite hub that allows warfighters to implement and manage a mobile satellite network in the field.
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Army CIO Sorenson acknowledges concern over cyberwarfare,
Not that Army information technology officers needed a wake-up call about the need to secure their networks, but the recent cyberattacks against Georgian networks that originated in Russia certainly served as reinforcement of that need.
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Expand Networks demonstrates WAN optimization over low-bandwidth, high-latency links
The company’s optimization technology, the Accelerator Operating System, enables ground, air and maritime forces to achieve better bandwidth throughput, accelerated network performance, comprehensive network management and significant cost savings.
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Global Satellite introduces pocket-sized satellite tracker
Global Satellite USA launched a stand-alone, pocket-sized Iridium satellite tracker at the 2008 LandWarNet Conference
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Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson gives opening address at the LandWarNet 2008 Conference
Organizing a Network Service Center construct is critical to the future of LandWarNet, particularly if the Army is to deploy modular, expeditionary forces with connectivity from fort to foxhole.
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"BlackBerry-like" services for the soldier — Lt. Gen. Sorenson says it’s possible
The Holy Grail of interactivity is the ability to use a BlackBerry like device with a single phone number and single email address that stays with soldiers and lets them access the data they need to prosecute their missions.
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Chief Casey to LandWarNet 2008: “I want to see a squad leader with a hand-held device from which he can draw the knowledge of the Army”
A 21st Century Army will have to evolve to meet six trends head on: globalization, resource competition, proliferation of weapons of mass destruction, climate change, failed and failing states, and demographic trends.
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LandWarNet to Feature Interoperability Program
The growing importance of IT to military operations, particularly those conducted by the U.S. Army in Iraq and Afghanistan, is evident by the record number of exhibitors and registrants signed up for this year’s LandWarNet Conference.
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Letters from the editor: Transformation
Defense Systems magazine has a renewed focus and a new design. In the past few months, we’ve been working toward a relaunch of this magazine to align it with what’s become the permanent evolution of networkcentric warfare and the reality that blurs the lines between the logistics chain, the back office and the front lines.
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Rugged PCs and filtering screens
The Land Warrior and upcoming Ground Warrior systems are only part of General Dynamics’ rugged military electronics business.
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Army studies biofuel cells for sensors
The Army is investigating whether a new type of fuel cell that uses biologically active enzymes as a catalyst could provide a longer-lasting power source for unattended ground sensors.
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Standards still emerging for military wireless nets
The military wireless network of the near future will incorporate civilian technologies such as Wi-Fi while accounting for all the ways that networking a battlefield is not like networking a coffee shop or even a city.
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Secure desktops and robotic recovery
General Dynamics C4 Systems has selected Dell’s OptiPlex 755 desktop PC as the hardware platform for its Trusted Virtual Environment; General Dynamics C4 Systems has selected Dell’s OptiPlex 755 desktop PC as the hardware platform for its Trusted Virtual Environment.
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DOD ups research with Navy supercomputer
The Defense Department has increased its supercomputing capacity with the purchase of an IBM supercomputer for the Naval Oceanographic Office’s Major Shared Resource Center.
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ICS Is the heart of the future
The core of the Army’s Future Combat Systems, the networked hub of Land Warrior, and the rest of the digitally enhanced warfighter systems are elements of computer systems built largely with commercial components.
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Interview with Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson
Army CIO Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson spoke with Defense Systems contributing editor Barry Rosenberg about some of the challenges he’s tackling.
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William Leigher as director of information operations
Rear Adm. William Leigher is being assigned as director of information operations, at the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations.
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