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Army makes strides in smart-phone security
The Army's aggressive smart-phone deployment offers a model for other services.
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Gates taps 'creative thinker' for Army chief of staff
Robert Gates knows who he wants for chief of staff to succeed Gen. George Casey Jr. Will he get his wish?
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Army CIO watch: Nomination announcement expected soon
A formal announcement could come regarding the Army’s nomination for a new CIO.
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Army taps new IT provider for European headquarters
The U.S. Army Europe headquarters in Heidelberg, Germany, and its associated staff elements will receive information technology from General Dynamics Corp. in a five-year Alliant contract task order worth $122 million if all options are exercised.
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Army salutes top 10 battlefield inventions
The annual Army's Greatest Invention program cites technologies that are the most innovative from research labs throughout the Army from the preceding year.
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Army e-mail plan fails to consider AKO success
Consultant Robert Guerra says he doesn’t understand why the Army plans to spend more than $100 million on a new e-mail system when AKO does so much more.
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Do commercial electronics threaten military security?
The growing demand for handheld mobile devices, many of which are not up to military specifications, poses a dilemma for military users.
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Army HQ flooded with requests for more drones
Requests from Army units in Afghanistan for unmanned aircraft systems are at an all-time high, and in response, officials are hammering out a set of principles for how the systems will be acquired and fielded, reports Kate Brannen at Defense News.
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Army PEO EIS gets new senior leader
Army Program Executive Office gets a new senior leader, promoted up through the ranks.
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Army hires contractor to help with counter-IED effort
The Army has awarded a new contract to CACI-WGI to furnish various support services to the military organization responsible for developing tactics and tools to combat improvised explosive devices.
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Army brass assess progress toward modernization
An Army IT Day panel discussed programs and initatives designed to improve network connectivity to units, harness social media for information sharing, and modernize systems and equipment.
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Coalition success in Afghanistan rests on interoperability
Interoperability is crucial to the continued success of coalition military operations in Afghanistan, said Brig. Gen. Benjamin Hodges at Army IT Day.
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Army tackles massive network modernization
Army Acting Deputy CIO Mark Bowman outlined the principles the military service has established for modernizing communications and networking capabilities at Army IT Day.
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Army sees future of intelligence in the cloud
The Army intends to push vast amounts of the intelligence data it collects to a cloud environment.
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Army CyberCom faces tough challenges getting started
Despite a scarcity of time and resources, deploying the Army Cyber Command within a newly established warfare domain is proving to be a task that remains riddled with ambiguity as the military takes on cyber warfare, said Maj. Gen. Rhett Hernandez, commander of the Army Cyber Command, on Dec. 9 at Army IT Day.
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Army enterprise e-mail transition in full swing
The Army is well into its transition to an enterprisewide e-mail service and moving forward with plans to collapse its disparate networks into the Network Enterprise Technology/9th Signal Command, said Brig. Gen. Jennifer Napper at Army IT Day.
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Army faces communications challenges in Afghanistan
The multitude of hurdles in transition, network operations and infrastructure issues in the Afghanistan theater are making for serious struggles for the Army, said Brig. Gen. Lawrence Brock at Army IT Day.
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New Army CIO picture coming into focus
The likely top choice for the new Army chief information officer has become clear -- but there is still no official word.
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Army to test new ground combat systems
The Army will test and evaluate new ground combat systems in 2011 built by Boeing as part of Brigade Combat Team Modernization Increment One.
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