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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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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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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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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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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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Director View | Framework formed by best practices
The Defense-wide Information Assurance Program (DIAP) is leading a holistic approach to IA risk management that includes codifying best practices from across the Defense Department and developing a compliance and enforcement plan.
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FCS robot gets ready for battlefield
iRobot, is on track to be one of the first efforts from the Defense Department’s Future Combat Systems project to bear fruit.
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Army Lt. Gen Ann Dunwoody confirmed
Army Lt. Gen Ann Dunwoody became the first female four-star general in the U.S. military after the Senate confirmed her by unanimous consent July 23. She will head Army Materiel Command (AMC), based at Fort Belvoir, Va.
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Battlefield satcom
When the 3rd Infantry Division outran its ability to erect line-of-sight communication antennas during the charge to Baghdad, losing its terrestrial radio capacity, the planners knew something needed to change.
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All solutions go
After three years of wrangling, Defense Department and civilian agencies are finally digging into the Army’s Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services contract.
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The digitized battlefield
If survivability is the major goal of any system designed to be carried by soldiers into combat, the Army’s Land Warrior system has demonstrated its qualifications.
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Land Warrior Systems
15-month deployment of 240 units ended spring 2008. Next-generation deployment of 1,000 units due for early 2009.
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Flying face scanner
Homeland Security Strategies will offer facial-recognition technology for its Icarus Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Platform
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Lt. Gen. William Shelton nominated to replace Lt. Gen. Michael Peterson
Lt. Gen. William Shelton has been renominated for the rank of lieutenant general and nominated to replace Lt. Gen. Michael Peterson as the Air Force’s chief information officer and chief of warfighting integration in the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force.
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Secure realtime video over wireless IP
VideoComm Technologies has introduced its RT-Wave Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiplexing (OFDM) digital video transmitter series
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Maude Young assigned as program executive officer
Capt. Maude Young, who has been selected to the rank of rear admiral, is being assigned as program executive officer for space systems and commander of Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command Space Field Activity and director of the National Reconnaissance Office’s Communications Directorate in Washington
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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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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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