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National Defense February 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Network Vulnerabilities Worry Pentagon Pentagon officials call the Defense Department's global communications network its weakest link. The question is how to manage the risk, and create a balance between security and the necessity of working with international partners and the private sector. |
National Defense October 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Protecting Global Information Grid Requires New Strategy The cornerstone of future defense programs is information technology, but that foundation may contain cracks that endanger the entire effort, according to security experts within the government. |
National Defense August 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
Strategy and Budget Driven by Global War on Terror The final report is not scheduled to be completed and sent to Congress until February, but looking at what is happening in the world today, there are clear indicators of where the Pentagon's Quadrennial Defense Review is headed -- to a change to the current military posture. |
Popular Mechanics June 30, 2008 Glenn Derene |
Inside NSA Red Team Secret Ops With Government's Top Hackers Highly skilled firewall-crackers help the government keep the bad guys out of the country's computer systems. |
National Defense June 2013 Valerie Insinna |
Defense Department Infrastructure Still Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks, Critics Say The Defense Department knows how to fight a kinetic war with bullets, bombs and boots on the ground, but it is still figuring out what a cyberwar would look like and how it would be fought. |
National Defense February 2015 Meloni & McCoy Jr. |
Defense IT Investment to Focus on Big Data, Cloud As the Defense Department cuts spending on information technology, it is focusing on a "technological offset strategy" to counterbalance a shrinking fighting force. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2007 John Keller |
The importance of military information security Will the the computer and the data network be the aircraft carrier and atomic bomb of the future? |
National Defense February 2016 Jon Harper |
Defense Department Moving Slowly on 'Internet of Things' The "Internet of Things" is a key component of the military's modernization strategy. But the Pentagon is behind the curve due to security concerns and other impediments, cyber experts said. |
National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin |
The Coming Decade: A Slowdown In Spending, but No 'Procurement Holiday' Even under the worst-case scenario, defense budgets in the coming decade will be larger than they were in the last year of the Bush administration. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 John Keller |
TSAT Deserves Support From Congress and the Pentagon Transformation Satellite communication (TSAT) will provide the future high-speed network entry point for military users who do not have ground-based connections. |
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy |
Advisory Board Says Military Must Define Role in Homeland Defense The Pentagon needs to improve and integrate its maritime intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance assets with those of the Departments of Homeland Security and Transportation, CIA and FBI, according to a recent Defense Science Board study. |
National Defense January 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
'Milspec' Technology Makes a Comeback A rising propensity to "militarize" the Defense Department's information networks will be making it more difficult for the Pentagon to take advantage of cutting-edge technologies from the commercial sector, say analysts and industry experts. |
National Defense March 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense, Intelligence Agencies Struggle to Unify Data Networks It is an article of faith among military strategists that information wins wars. This dogma, however, often collides with the reality that military information systems resemble the Tower of Babel. |
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense, Industry Upheaval Defined By 10 Key Moments Here's a look back at 10 key moments that defined the decade for the military and the defense industry. |
National Defense February 2011 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
To Improve Cyber-Security, U.S. Needs Cohesive Public-Private Partnership NDIA member companies recently put together a white paper on the necessity to better acquire and field cyber-capabilities. |
National Defense May 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Firms Think Twice Before Investing in DoD The Pentagon needs to get creative as it plans the weapons of the future, officials have said, and it needs private-sector help. |
National Defense May 2005 Roxana Tiron |
Future Pentagon Investments To Reshape Defense Industry Despite being heavily committed in the Middle East, Defense Department officials argue that long-range investment decisions must begin now if the military is to have crucial capabilities 20 years down the road. |
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Future War: How The Game is Changing "It's hard to concentrate on a grand strategy when your house is on fire," said Marine Corps Gen. James Mattis, head of U.S. Joint Forces Command. Even as they cope with the frantic demands of two major wars, military leaders say they have a clearer sense of the future than they did in the 1990s. |
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. |
National Defense May 2015 Sandra I. Erwin |
Procurement Issues That Congress Won't Fix The new foreign policy mantra in Washington is that the world is on fire. The nation's weapons procurement machine, meanwhile, keeps partying like it's 1999. |
National Defense July 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh |
New Chinese Threats to U.S. Space Systems Worry Officials If China continues to make strides and develops weapons that reach farther, it could one day threaten key satellites in geosynchronous orbit. |
InternetNews April 8, 2009 Alex Goldman |
Pentagon Claims $100M in Cybersecurity Costs The threat is real, but so is the fight for budget financing in Washington. |
National Defense January 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
Homeland Defense Research Agency Directs Attention To Cyber Security Fearing the specter of crippling attacks on government and private sector computer systems, federal officials are stepping up efforts to foil cyber terrorism. |
National Defense August 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Do Cyberwarriors Belong at Special Operations Command? Josh Hartman, a former congressional staffer and Defense Department executive, knows a good place for the military to house its cadre of cyberwarriors: In Tampa, Fla., at MacDill Air Force Base, home of Special Operations Command. |
National Defense March 2014 Sandra I. Erwin |
In '15 Budget, Red Flags for Contractors If defense industry CEOs can draw any conclusion from the Pentagon's 2015 budget proposal it is that, except for the too-big-to-fail joint strike fighter, most of the military's modernization plan is on shaky ground. |
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
For Contractors in War Zones, Business Will Keep Growing The constant sniping in Washington about military contractors ignores the inescapable conclusion that the privatization of government functions not only is here to stay, but is going to get bigger. |
National Defense April 2007 Stew Magnuson |
Congress Ponders Action After Chinese Anti-Sat Test After the Chinese demonstrated their ability to destroy enemy spacecraft, analysts say U.S. reliance on satellites and make them a weak link in our defenses. |
National Defense May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Should 'Institutionalize' Cultural Training for Troops, Advisory Panel Says The Iraq war made it clear that the U.S. military neglected to study that country's culture before it deployed forces there. |
National Defense November 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Changing World Blazes New Trails For Military Technology A striking array of challenges is reshaping the course of defense technology. The United States is entering an era characterized by fiscal austerity and the rise of "non-state" actors as enemies of nation states. |
National Defense August 2015 Jon Harper |
Market for Ground Robots Poised for a Turnaround The market for ground robots is set to expand as technology advancements give the machines greater utility on the battlefield and elsewhere, according to defense officials and industry experts. |
National Defense August 2006 Stew Magnuson |
Small steps taken in long quest for net-centric military The vision has been out there for a long time: a network-centric world where information among military programs or branches can be accessed by commanders or decision makers in a timely manner. When will it be expected to arrive? |
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. |
National Defense July 2011 Sandra I. Erwin |
High-Tech Weapon Makers Set Sights on 'Smart Microgrid' Market Pentagon contractors are looking to transition their skills in assembling complex weapon systems into the nascent market of energy microgrids. |
National Defense June 2004 Harold Kennedy |
Blueprint For Homeland Security The Defense Department is working on a comprehensive homeland defense strategy that will detail the Pentagon's emerging role in protecting the United States from terrorist attack |
National Defense April 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
How Much Does the Pentagon Pay for a Gallon of Gas? Two Defense Science Board studies have criticized the Pentagon for not having reliable methods of measuring what is known as the "fully burdened" cost of fuel (FBCF). |
IEEE Spectrum November 2008 Robert N. Charette |
What's Wrong with Weapons Acquisitions? Escalating complexity, a shortage of trained workers, and crass politicization mean that most programs to develop new military systems fail to meet expectations. |
National Defense December 2011 Stew Magnuson |
Defense Department Partners With Industry To Stem Staggering Cybertheft Losses The amount of intellectual property hackers are stealing from U.S. companies and sending to China is said to be staggering. The private sector's crown jewels are being moved off nominally secure networks and transmitted to the Asian nation every day: usually from 9 to 5 -- Beijing time. |
National Defense May 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Pentagon Eyes Deals With Satellite Industry to Fill Demand for Drone Communications A group of Pentagon officials was given three months to come up with a plan to boost the supply of satellite bandwidth that is needed to support the military's growing fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2008 Courtney E. Howard |
iWar Technology companies devise innovations to help combat the growing threat of information warfare. |
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. |
National Defense April 2013 Sandra I. Erwin |
Satellite Shortages May Choke Off Military Drone Expansion It is a perennial problem in military operations that there is never enough satellite capacity to satisfy commanders' gargantuan appetite for voice and data communications. |
National Defense April 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Struggling With Rising Demand for Communications Conveniences of the information age that troops in combat used to regard as luxuries are now viewed as necessities. |
National Defense August 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Five Key Questions About the Defense Budget Here are some of the key questions that policymakers should bear in mind when it comes to the defense budget. |
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin |
Mobile Broadband for Roaming Troops: Pipe Dream or Reality? Soldiers on the front line have little or no access to the Internet and their communication is limited to line-of-sight radios. The Defense Department is working on improving this, but will they succeed? |
National Defense July 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Stifles Innovation Despite Urgent War Needs The Defense Department has been a leading developer of cutting-edge technology. But at the same time, it has created self-defeating mechanisms that quash innovation and fail to capitalize on available opportunities. |
Inc. September 1, 2009 Cheney et al. |
Grabbing a Piece of the Defense-Spending Pie A look at seven Inc. 500 companies that sell technology and services to the Pentagon |
National Defense June 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
More Services, Less Hardware Define Current Military Buildup In the midst of the largest military expansion since the Reagan administration, industry analysts warn that the gravy days cannot last much longer. |
Popular Mechanics September 2008 Glenn Derene |
The Coming Cyberwar: Inside the Pentagon's Plan to Fight Back In the modern American military, digital telecommunication is so integral to command and control of forces and equipment that the disruption of data can do more to disable a fighting force than a thousand bombs |
National Defense March 2011 Denis Chamberland |
Contractors on the Battlefield: Outsourcing of Military Services The last decade has witnessed a sharp increase in the scale of outsourcing of military services to third parties, emphasizing the importance of integrating contractor support into military operations and generating efficiencies. |
National Defense September 2006 Sandra I. Erwin |
Defense Engineers Ponder `Modest Adjustments' for Connecting Forces Incompatible weapon systems and disjointed information networks continue to be a source of frustration at the Defense Department. |