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DOD likely to adopt limited social networking
Navy CIO Robert Carey says powerful opportunities exist for social networking inside networks controlled by the military.
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Missile tracking satellites said ready for launch next month
After more than a decade of program difficulties, a rocket will carry two demonstration satellites of the Space and Tracking Surveillance System into space in mid-September, reports Colin Clark in DOD Buzz.
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DISA awards $17M gateway security contract
The contract covers licensing, network equipment, software and support for DISA's secure wireless data and e-mail infrastructure.
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Microsoft formally appeals Word patent ruling
Microsoft has formally appealed a judgment issued last week that would require the company to stop selling Microsoft Word within the United States.
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Cyber Dashboard aims to give Army visual insight into metrics
The new prototype will focus on the effectiveness of the Army's cyberspace initiatives.
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Need for cultural change is driving force of transformation progress
Michael Krieger, the deputy chief information officer/G-6, remains upbeat about the future of military network infrastructure.
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Challenges remain in evolving VoIP to more secure SIPR-based environment
Army voice communications are on the "threshold of a transformational change," according to one official.
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Cookie-cutter security hinders soldiers on the edge, Army vice chief of staff says
Something’s wrong when the Army vice chief of staff is prohibited from using the camera on his personal Blackberry.
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PC Central offers secure data transmission for remote-desktop environments
The first deployment of the product will take place with 60 users in the military beginning in September.
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New mesh-networking solutions introduced
Fortress Technologies introduced several mesh-networking solutions at the LandWarNet 2009 conference.
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Army exploring commercially managed enterprise e-mail system
The Army released a request for information this week seeking industry recommendations on ways to provide commercially managed enterprise messaging and collaboration services as part of a broader move to streamline and standardize operations and reduce operating costs.
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Army explores commercially managed enterprise e-mail
The Army released a request for information this week seeking industry recommendations on ways to provide commercially managed enterprise messaging and collaboration services as part of a broader move to streamline and standardize operations and reduce operating costs.
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ITT to upgrade Navy ship self-defense radar
ITT Corp. will furnish modification kits for the AN/SPS-48G(V) radar as part of the Navy's ongoing Radar Obsolescence and Availability Recovery program.
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Could a newly established command get lost in the Army shuffle?
Protecting the hundreds of U.S.-based communications networks is just the start; the command will also work to combine them all into a single enterprise network, an endeavor that is already making waves.
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DARPA developing a $500 radio for WIN-T program
WIN-T Increment 3 is looking at a $500 radio for the dismounted soldier, under development by DARPA. Considered almost a throwaway device at that price, the Wireless Networking After Next radio would have four channels and extend WIN-T’s on-the-move capabilities to soldiers on foot.
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GNEC key to reducing network access points, improving security, says MG Lawrence
MG Susan Lawrence says the key to improving security and improving Army networks involves aligning people, equipment and policy under the Global Network Enterprise Concept.
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Three questions with Gary Winkler, Army PEO EIS
Gary Winkler, Program Executive Officer for Army Enterprise Information Systems, talks about what's new this year at LandWarNet offerings and the PEO EIS' plans for ERP systems.
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Aruba Networks' new wireless LAN solution has FIPS 140-2 security
Aruba Networks says its ArubaOS Release 3 802.11n wireless LAN solution has been validated as being Federal Information Processing Standard 140-2 compliant for cryptographic security.
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Command and control must become command and feedback, says NATO commander
As the military and its culture evolves in an era instantaneous information sharing and coalition forces, so too must the notion of command and control evolve to the notion of command and feedback, said U.S. Marine Corps Gen. James N. Mattis, NATO Supreme Allied Commander Transformation.
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