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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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Navy begins test of tube-launched UAV
A Navy rotary-wing unmanned aerial vehicle designed to be fired from a sonobuoy launch tube will enter what is planned to be a final phase of testing under a $10.5 million contract award to Lite Machines, of West Lafayette, Ind.
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Unmanned supply helicopter demonstrated
Lockheed Martin and Kaman Aerospace have demonstrated to the Army and Marine Corps the feasibility of transporting supplies to ground troops by an unmanned helicopter
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