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Peter Buxbaum

Peter Buxbaum is a special contributor to Defense Systems.
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Tomorrow's network

The Air Force's vision for NetCents-2 is to establish a standards-based network infrastructure.

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Contract Watch: Telos leads NETCENTS integrators in 2008 buys

Telos had more than $230 million in new sales from the Air Force’s NETCENTS program in fiscal year 2008, the most of any of the program’s eight prime contractors, the company announced Dec. 17. The Ashburn, Va.-based company also announced it had received more than $100 million in new NETCENTS orders during the fourth quarter.

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DOD, VA to migrate health records to SOA

The departments are making the migration of their respective electronic health record systems to enhance the interoperability of outpatient clinical data.

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Military to unveil early version of personal health record

The prototype personal health record will be “available to, and entirely controlled by, the patient, and at no additional cost to the beneficiary,” according to a blog post by Stephen Jones, principal deputy assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs.

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DHB to DOD: Standardize immunization records

The effort to standardize records across the Military Health System appears to be lagging somewhat.

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TBI patients to be part of Army pilot text program

The Army is seeking to develop a text-messaging system to communicate with service members suffering from traumatic brain injury, which would help health care providers monitor patients as well as prompt them to take treatment actions.

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Some military doctors let the software do the typing

Though not everyone has access to it yet, the new Dragon Medical 10 software is providing some military medical practitioners, including a few in Iraq, with the latest voice-recognition software.

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Management problems at NetCents

Management will likely become even more complex under NetCents-2, which could have 51 to 80 prime contractors.

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DCGS coming to NetCents

The Distributed Common Ground System is a family of programs with common elements designed to meet the military services’ intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance needs.

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SOA coming to NetCents

SOAs will receive added emphasis under NetCents- 2, said Debra Foster, the Air Force’s NetCents-2 program manager.

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Air Force NetCents-2 Contract ready for takeoff

The Air Force prepares the next generation of the NetCents contract as the first nears its end.

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Self-Healing Aircraft

Researchers develop a liquid healing agent for the skins of aircraft and missiles

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Rough seas ahead for usv

Unmanned surface vehicles might be the Navy’s future, but they have obstacles to overcome.

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Standard for unmanned systems..

One such set of standards is specified in the Navy’s Unmanned Surface Vehicle Master Plan: the Joint Architecture for Unmanned Systems which specifies data formats and communication methods for unmanned systems.