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Our first industry ranking
We thought it would be appropriate to cap our final issue of 2012 with the Defense Systems Super 75, our ranking of the most innovative and agile companies operating in the net-centric battlespace.
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Army attendance at non-DOD conferences banned for the rest of the year
Secretary of the Army John McHugh has suspended all Army attendance at non-Defense Department conferences for the remainder of the year.
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A numbers game: Adding up Army data center consolidation
COL James Parks III, chief of the data center consolidation initiative in the Army’s CIO/G-6 office, discusses the Army’s progress in consolidating data centers and reducing the number of applications in use.
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No eyeballs on target at AUSA
Too few of our service members were on hand at the recent Association of the U.S. Army show to see and demonstrate the new technologies exhibited for themselves.
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Leaving ourselves vulnerable to cyberattack
Cybersecurity protections that address our food and water supplies, health-care systems and power grids need to happen immediately.
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With SAIC protest denied, Lockheed Martin cleared to begin work on DISA GSM-O contract
The Government Accountability Office has denied SAIC’s protest on the Defense Information Systems Agency’s (DISA) massive Global Systems Management Operations (GSM-O) contract, clearing the way for the Lockheed Martin-led team to begin work on the $4.6 billion contract.
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Air Force embarks on major protected MILSATCOM study with more than 15 contracts awarded
With an eye to developing protected military satellite communications (MILSATCOM), the Air Force has embarked on a major contracting initiative by issuing more than 15 contracts under the “Protected MILSATCOM Design for Affordability Risk Reduction Demonstration Study.”
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Army PEO C3T managing tactical comms at the terrestrial, aerial and celestial tiers
MG N. Lee Price, Army program executive officer for command, control, communications (Tactical), on the challenges of managing tactical communications at the terrestrial, aerial and celestial tiers
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Sharing intel between echelons key challenge for Army Geospatial Center
Joseph Fontanella, director of the U.S. Army Geospatial Center, on the challenge of sharing geospatial intelligence between echelons.
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Army says money management system is fully deployed and can produce auditable reports
COL Patrick Burden, project manager of the Army’s General Fund Enterprise Business System, on the GFEBS enterprise resource planning project.
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From radios to waveforms: How JTRS is remaking itself as JTNC
Army BG Michael Williamson, JPEO JTRS, and Mark Compton, Director, JTNC, discuss how JTRS is remaking itself as JTNC and lessons learned for future procurements.
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The path taken
The military's Joint Tactical Radio System program has had its share of problems, but it has produced the Rifleman radio and a waveform repository that just might revolutionize communications interoperability between U.S. and coalition forces.
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DISA’s just-released strategic plan calls for enterprise information environment, strategic focus on Asia-Pacific region
The Defense Systems Information Agency released its 2013-2018 strategic plan on Tuesday, and it calls for the agency to drive toward an enterprise information environment.
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JTRS HMS program and its Rifleman Radio now part of PEO C3T
The Army's senior acquisition executive, Heidi Shyu, directed this week that the Joint Tactical Radio System’s Handheld, Manpack and Small Form Fit program be transferred to the Army’s Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications (Tactical).
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As a global command, NETCOM makes itself the network proving ground
MG Jennifer Napper, commanding general of Army Network Enterprise Technology Command, discusses the major challenges facing military networks.
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DOD CIO sets direction for cloud that partners closely with industry
DOD Deputy CIO Dave DeVries on the military cloud.
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Air Force consolidates cyber/IT operations to improve performance
Maj. Gen. Craig Olson, PEO, Air Force Business and Enterprise Systems, on transition of the BES portfolio to his successor, and his new position as head of the Air Force's Command, Control and Communications Information and Networks program executive office.
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Changes Afoot
Many wheels were set in motion this summer, s a number of key leaders in military cyber and defense IT were set to begin transitions to new posts, while at the same time the Air Force began a reorganization with major implications for the future direction of the service's cyber policies and actions.
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Army makes new plans for UAS assets in Afghanistan
Army COL Tim Baxter on deployment of a company of Gray Eagle unmanned aerial vehicles to Afghanistan, the use of universal systems and interoperability, and the weaponization of the Shadow UAV.
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ERPs continue to fail the DOD
The DOD is not going to be able any time soon to produce auditable financial statements on its own programs because its major enterprise resource planning programs continue to remain late and way over budget, according to a DOD Inspector General report.
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