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Parameters Summer 2005 Cebrowski & Raymond	Operationally Responsive Space: A New Defense Business Model As the major defense power in the world, the United States military must dare to compete with itself to ensure sustained advantage. We must set our own standards. Space has long been an arena of American dominance. That must continue.
National Defense May 2004 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	`Information Fusion' Key to Winning Wars What made a huge difference in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, said Roche, was the fusion of information.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2006 John McHale	Boeing Future Combat System Shows Maturity in Joint Experiment The U.S. Army's Future Combat System program, managed by the Lead Systems Integrator team of Boeing and partner Science Applications International Corporation, demonstrated networking and systems capabilities in the first of two major field experiments scheduled for 2006.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005	Lt. Gen. Tom Hobbins leads Air Force warfighting integration From his base at U.S. Air Force Headquarters in Washington Lt. Gen. Tom Hobbins, Air Force deputy chief of staff for warfighting integration, is charged with formulating and executing policy and strategy that will move the Air Force.
National Defense May 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell	Successful Net-Centric Operations Require Joint Testing The wars U.S. forces are fighting today---and can be expected to fight in the foreseeable future---undoubtedly are shaping the military services' requirements for new and improved technology.
National Defense December 2015 Robert Smith	Lowering Costs Through Information Sharing Recognizing the significance of the moment, leaders from all U.S. forces have begun to reevaluate -- individually and collaboratively -- the nation's approach to warfare.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 John McHale	Networking Tomorrow's Battlefields General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin experts are already designing and demonstrating technologies for a network-centric force on the move through the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), the U.S. Army's next-generation battlefield network backbone.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2005 Christopher Dabrowski	European land systems: Maintaining profitability in a shrinking market? The main challenge for European nations will be to find a level of network-enhanced capability-data diffusion-that facilitates interoperability, contributes to battle-space situational awareness, leverages information flow at the tactical level and yet comes with a reasonable price tag
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 Ben Ames	Military Warns Contractors About Pitfalls of Joint Weapons Design Pentagon planners are pushing the different service branches to share equipment and split the cost of customized-weapons development. This joint operation will help transform the American military into a lighter, faster force, they say.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005	Operation Iraqi Freedom C 4ISR Lessons Learned Operation Iraqi Freedom was the first major military operation conducted under the newly introduced US Army Net-Centric Warfare (NCW) doctrine.
National Defense March 2008 Stew Magnuson	Goal of a `Network-Centric' Military Seems Distant Unblocking communications and data sharing barriers is necessary if the military will achieve its longtime goal of becoming a network-centric force.
National Defense January 2005 Roxana Tiron	Deployment of Sea Bases Faces Technical, Budgetary Challenges The notion that ground forces can be launched, supported and sustained solely from ships at sea is still new to the Army and the Air Force, and the Defense Department has yet to figure out how to pay for this capability.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2005	Army strives for battlefield awareness with FBCB2 Army tank commanders need a clearer view of the battlefield than they have today, so they can track friendly forces and enemy targets.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2004 Keller & Wilson	Information Technology is Key to Air Force 2020 As Air Force leaders look to the future, they are examining how information dominance and real-time shared situational awareness are critical to the challenges of four kinds of military operations.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 J.R. Wilson	Transformational Communications The world of military communications is on the verge of massive and revolutionary change, driving towards a networked battlespace. Still, what matters most is the person at the "pointy end of the spear."
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005	Tactical C 3 Performance Operation Iraqi Freedom was characterized by rapid task re-organization across all echelons to enable exploitation of enemy vulnerabilities, and execution of branch, sequel, and follow-on operations.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2009 J.R. Wilson	Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Get Ready for Prime Time Government leaders are supportive of unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) use in non-military applications such as border control, emergency response, law enforcement, and forest fire surveillance.
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Christopher J. Toomey	Army Digitization: Making it Ready for Prime Time The Army's commitment to creating a digitized force elicits some key questions about how the Army will make the transition from an analog force in the face of rapidly changing technology while maintaining the capability to meet key strategic and operational challenges.
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Wilson, Gordon & Johnson	An Alternative Future Force: Building a Better Army The Army's transformation concept rests on a set of major assumptions that should be questioned. This article suggests an alternative pathway for preparing US ground forces to meet the challenges of the next several decades.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006	Industry, DOD technology cooperation is key to realizing network-centric warfare Col. David W. Madden, director of the enterprise integration group at the Air Force Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, discusses his group's most pressing technological priorities.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 Ben Ames	Tactical military communications spending to grow to $5.7 billion by 2010 Immediate operational needs for ground forces fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, with the transformation of the force structure to adopt network-centric warfare, is driving U.S. military forces to spend billions of dollars on digital tactical military communications.
National Defense January 2004 Carolyn Maloney	Advanced Technology Demonstrations Proven in Iraq The war in Iraq helped demonstrate several Defense Department research and development programs that started out more than a decade ago as Advanced Concept Technology Demonstrations.
National Defense June 2004 Peter Teets	Space Programs Reflect War-Fighting Priorities Space systems increasingly have become integrated into national intelligence and war-fighting operations.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005	Battle Command on-the-Move US forces fully expected that movement of combat formations from the Kuwaiti border to the city of Baghdad would be swift. This speed of maneuver produced distances that exceeded the capability of today's tactical radio systems normally assigned to these formations and hindered effective communications between tactical headquarters.
Military & Aerospace Electronics November 2005 John McHale	AUSA showcases technology for a network-centric force Dominating the first Gulf War was the ability of the U.S. military to fight at night as most armies do in daytime. The second Gulf War drove that home even more convincingly.
National Defense December 2004 Michael Peck	Quick Mission Rehearsals Goal of Joint Training Slashing the rehearsal time needed for joint training missions from months to days is one of the goals of the joint national training capability (JNTC), a concept designed to move joint warfare from rhetoric to reality.
Parameters Summer 2004 Brownlee & Schoomaker	Serving a Nation at War: A Campaign Quality Army with Joint and Expeditionary Capabilities The United States is driving a rapid evolution in the methods and techniques of war.
National Defense September 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Incompatible Technologies Weaken Utility of Aerial Spies The military services operate nearly 4,000 unmanned aircraft, most of which have been deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan. The Army alone is flying 1,200 drones in surveillance combat missions.
Parameters Summer 2004 Gordon & Sollinger	The Army's Dilemma The Army is perceived by many as unimaginative, obstructionist, and wedded to concepts of warfare that are increasingly irrelevant to the current geopolitical environment. This article suggests an explanation for this perception and ways the Army might alter it.
National Defense December 2003 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	'Access' Challenges in Expeditionary Operations The fact that friendly nations are becoming sensitive about hosting U.S. forces should be a wake-up call. Eventually, the services will need to develop a joint vision and concept of operations for how to tackle these challenges.
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2006 John McHale	Current Military Operations May Slow SATCOM Development Trends within the U.S. Department of Defense may slow development funding for next-generation satellite communications such as WIN-T, yet the promised technologies of these programs, such as Internet Protocol systems, continue to demonstrate successfully.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2005	Col. Gary Connor helps transform C3ISR technology In an interview with USAF Col. Gary S. Connor he discusses force transformation, Command and Control, Intelligence, Surveillance, and Reconnaissance Systems (C2ISR) and industry relationships.
National Defense February 2013 Paul J. Kern	U.S. Troops Deserve a Competitive Equipment Advantage The Army can take advantage of commercial competitive practices for fast-moving technologies, rather than lengthy bureaucratic processes. The armed forces should have the best capability when they need it -- and at a more affordable price in a time of lean defense budgets.
National Defense April 2006 Claude V. Christianson	Joint Logistics: A Personal Perspective We have an opportunity to significantly advance our systems, processes and organizations to improve support for the joint force commander -- and we must seize it, says this Army Lt. Gen. and director for logistics on the Joint Staff.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 Courtney E. Howard	Rugged Electronics Empower Tomorrow's Technology Technology companies enable our military's net-centric vision through smaller, faster, stronger computers.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2004 John Keller	Military transformation: beyond the buzzwords Military transformation is drowning in hyperbole that would have us believe that this new approach represents a reinvention of warfare itself. It doesn't. Warfare is essentially the same today as it was more than 3,000 years ago -- find and defeat the enemy, or be destroyed yourself.
National Defense October 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Memo to War Planners: No Post-It Notes or Stubby Pencils Allowed To bring order and discipline into it's information systems, the Air Force plans to hire a contractor to serve as a lead systems integrator in charge of standardizing the technology.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2006 Courtney E. Howard	Wheeled Wonders and Road Warriors Major defense industry vendors and contractors are contributing to the advancement and success of combat vehicles designed to take advantage of the best technologies available now and in the future.
Defense Update Issue 3, 2005	Building Blocks of C4 Systems C4 systems have the flexibility to allow more applications to be fielded and new services to become available as the use increases allowing commanders to improve their situational assessment.
Parameters Spring 2005 Wesensten et al.	Cognitive Readiness in Network-Centric Operations Network-centric operations (whether of a military or commercial nature) are characterized by information-sharing across multiple levels of traditional echelons of command and control.
National Defense April 2005 Mike Cast	Simulations Test Army Future Combat Systems The U.S. Army is testing the network of communications that enables effective communication among vehicles in combat.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2007	In Brief Boeing awarded JDAM contract... DRS Technologies to develop high-speed electric generator for navy... Lockheed Martin's 100th Aegis weapon system ready for duty... Altera and White Electronic Designs partner on specialized FPGA packaging... etc.
Defense Update Issue 3, 2005	Brigade Level Tactical Operations Center While the brigade is responsible for a growing array of and tasks and units, integral or attached ad-hoc, it has also evolved to become an information hub mediating data to and from tactical, operational and strategic levels.
National Defense November 2009 Grace V. Jean	Battlefield Intelligence: Easy to Collect, Tough to Share The U.S. military has deployed unmanned aircraft and other information collection devices at a pace that exceeds the capabilities of battlefield intelligence systems to archive, analyze and disseminate the video and imagery.
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Troops in The Digital Age, Disconnected As surprising as it may seem in today's wired culture, troops in combat zones do not have easy access to information.
National Defense August 2006 David Axe	Training Center Simulates Army's Digital Battle Command Technology A new high-tech facility will allow Army planners to concoct realistic training scenarios for units heading to Iraq. These advanced computer networks will connect real-world Army battle-command and control systems with digital simulations.
Parameters November 2004 Scott Boston	Toward a Protected Future Force The US Army plans to introduce its next-generation ground force quickly, starting with an experimental battalion by the end of the decade and a full brigade--called a Unit of Action--in 2014.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2008	In Brief Navy and Marine Corps lead BAE Systems precision-targeted weapon development program... Raytheon to modernize F-15E radar... Lockheed Martin wins contract for U.S. Air Force Self-Awareness Space Situational Awareness... etc.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2006	Urban Combat -- The Israeli Experience Recent conflicts are challenging the world's military powers with urban low-intensity conflict (urban-LIC) warfare... Stealth operations in LIC... New equipment fielded by israeli forces... Subterranean warfare... Rocket and mortar (RAM) attacks... etc.
National Defense November 2009 Erwin, Jean & Magnuson	Today's Fights Expose Technological Weak Spots Disruptive challenges, such as roadside bombs, combatants camouflaged as civilians, and insurgent camps that are undetectable by electronic sensors, have forced U.S. military leaders to search for new tactics and technologies.