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CIO December 1, 2006 China Martens	Real-Time Translation Software Heads to Iraq The U.S. Joint Forces Command will deploy IBM Research's speech-to-speech translation software to help U.S. forces in Iraq better communicate with Iraqi police, military forces and citizens.
InternetNews October 13, 2006 Michael Hickins	How to Say 'Don't Shoot' in Iraq IBM develops a speech-to-speech translator for U.S. military use in Iraq.
InternetNews February 14, 2007 Michael Hickins	IBM Lets a 'Thousand Flowers' Speak IBM put speech technology in the context of its broader SOA and information-on-demand initiatives.
National Defense May 2010 Grace V. Jean	Breaking Down Language Barriers on the Battlefield Troops attempt to interact with the local population on a daily basis, but without enough human translators to go around, miscommunications abound and opportunities for mutual understanding are lost.
InternetNews December 28, 2004 Colin C. Haley	Vonage to Offer Free Calls for Troops Through 2005 Vonage will continue to offer military personnel in Afghanistan and Iraq free phone calls to their families in the United States throughout 2005, the Voice over IP provider said today.
National Defense May 2011 Eric Beidel	iPhone Translation App Will Add Afghan Languages A New Jersey-based company that has developed speech translator applications for the iPhone is turning its attention to languages that would be useful to the military.
National Defense February 2007 Grace Jean	Bridging Language and Culture Gaps Through Games A new PC-based game, Tactical Iraqi Language Trainer, tests soldiers street smarts and cultural savvy in simulated Iraqi situations.
National Defense July 2007 Robert H. Williams	Troops Converse With Iraqis Via Compact Translator Troops in Iraq now have access to a voice-to-voice translator.
The Motley Fool October 30, 2010 Priyanka Banerjee	Google Goes to Iraq A research team sees the nation lagging behind in Internet access and wants to help.
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 Kimberly Patch	PDA translates speech Handheld computers are getting powerful enough, and speech recognition software accurate enough, that travelers, soldiers and aid workers in foreign countries could soon have automatic speech translation in hand. A prototype Arabic-English medical translator is a significant milestone.
The Motley Fool May 24, 2007 Rich Duprey	Another Tough Payday for the Military Despite persistent pay gaps for the military, legislative fixes exacerbate short-term funding problems.
InternetNews February 4, 2010	Air Force Taps Big Blue for Cloud Project IBM will embark on a 10-month project with the Air Force to build a secure, high-level defense network in the cloud.
BusinessWeek April 26, 2004 Bruce Nussbaum	It's Time To Shelve The Rumsfeld Doctrine Denial is rampant in Washington. There is denial that intelligence mistakes were made in the months and years before September 11. There is denial that foreign policy mistakes were made in the runup to the war in Iraq.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2007 John Keller	Taking the Pulse of Defense Spending As the war in Iraq has become a political sore spot, we can expect the Pentagon's leaders to hunker down to the status quo on military spending at least through the presidential election in November
The Motley Fool July 14, 2011 Rich Smith	Lockheed Flies Into the Twilight Zone Iraq goes shopping. Flush with billions of dollars of oil revenues, Iraq is evolving into a major patron of America's beleaguered military-industrial complex.
National Defense December 2009 Austin Wright	Troops Learn From Foreign Role-Players The Army is using replicated war zones and cultural education to prepare U.S. troops who will help the Iraqi and Afghan armies assume security duties in the war-ravaged countries.
National Defense October 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Why Is Congress Launching Yet Another Roles-and-Missions Probe? Congress may have the power of the purse, but it has been largely powerless in just about every attempt to influence the course of the war in Iraq and to substantially reshape military spending priorities.
The Motley Fool May 24, 2007 Rich Smith	General Dynamics Goes to School Defense contracting giant General Dynamics won a contract to set up a Language Training and Communications Center and recruit translators to work at the Center.
The Motley Fool October 14, 2011 Anders Bylund	You Are Now Free to Move About the Globe Google is breaking down language barriers. Others are sure to follow Big G's lead.
National Defense September 2010 Eric Beidel	Video Game Tackles 'Serious' Urban Problems The work force of tomorrow can learn a lot by playing video games today, say the folks at IBM.
InternetNews October 18, 2010	IBM Surges Past Q3 Earnings Forecast IBM handily tops analysts' projections for its third-quarter profits, citing across-the-board increases in hardware, software and services, and rising margins.
National Defense March 2005 Roxana Tiron	Contractor Security The Defense Department's relationship with contractors is changing as it becomes more reliant on them.
Popular Mechanics December 2008 Joe Pappalardo	Crunching the Numbers on Mercenaries vs Soldiers The U.S. military has always gone to war with civilian contractors in tow.
InternetNews February 1, 2007 Andy Patrizio	IBM Demos Its Future, And It's SOA Plumbing At its quiet San Jose research lab, IBM is working on making service oriented architecture of the future.
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.
Searcher February 2012 Nancy K. Herther	Feature: Language Translation in the Internet Age - 'my Hovercraft is Full of Eels' Webpages are designed to attract users and to keep them coming back. Along with poor design and typos, issues of unclear messages plague many websites today.
BusinessWeek November 18, 2010 Giegner & Krause-Jackson	After U.S. Troops Leave Iraq, the State Dept. Steps In The State Dept. is hiring thousands of contractors to help it assume duties in Iraq once the last of the troops departs in a year.
BusinessWeek July 31, 2006 Dawn Kopecki	When Outsourcing Turns Outrageous The U.S. Military has lost billions to fraud and mismanagement by private contractors in Iraq who do everything from cooking soldiers' meals to building hospitals to providing security. That raises a question: Does Pentagon outsourcing make sense?
National Defense April 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Military Readiness: Candid Assessments Long Overdue Alarm bells have gotten progressively louder and more jarring in recent weeks on the issue of military readiness on the home front.
BusinessWeek October 27, 2003 Stan Crock	Iraq: A U.N. Deal Still Won't Pay The Bills Given the expected outcome in Madrid, Iraqi participants are likely to walk away disappointed -- not confident in the international community's support. And Washington will have to shoulder the burden in Iraq for much longer than the Bush team had hoped.
The Motley Fool December 7, 2005 Brian Gorman	Is Defense Safe? Recent news from the Pentagon looks positive for the industry, but investors shouldn't be quick to assume they've dodged a bullet.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2004 John Keller	Military Research in Crisis The United States is in the midst of a military research, development, and preparedness crisis. Few people realize it; of those who do, most underestimate its dimensions.
National Defense December 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Drawdown: It's Been All Talk, Now It's Time to Walk U.S. military spending peaked in 2010 at $668 billion. It has dropped slightly since then, as the military started withdrawing troops from Iraq and Afghanistan. But real austerity has yet to come.
U.S. Banker May 2003 Holly Sraeel	Global Community? The World Can Only Hope. The free world is compelled to rebuild Iraq, complete with a democratic government, with the Iraqis for the Iraqis. It won't be cheap and, even more, it won't be easy.
BusinessWeek May 31, 2004 Kate Hazelwood	Invasion As A Case Study At USC's Marshall School of Business, students learn parallels between Iraq and a merger gone wrong.
Parameters Autumn 2008 Steven L. Schooner	Why Contractor Fatalities Matter Apprising the American public that the true human cost associated with military operations includes contractors and exceeds 6,000 is critical to making informed decisions for the future.
BusinessWeek May 17, 2004	A Talk With Iraq's Finance Minister Iraqi Finance Minister reports the country is mainly stable and ready to grow, and he thinks the sooner the government becomes one of Iraq for Iraqis, the better.
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.
Financial Advisor July 2004 Raymond Fazzi	Combat Readiness For Financial Advisors Military personnel are in much need of financial advice.
National Defense September 2005 Sandra Erwin	Defense Dept. Rhetoric Reflects War Frustrations Defense officials know so little about the insurgency American troops are combating in Iraq they decided that detailed information about the enemy, such as its strength and capabilities, is not all that important to winning the war.
Reason December 2004 Jeff A. Taylor	Rant: War of Addition Tearing thousands of men and women out of civilian life and sending them to battle signals more than a nation at war. It reveals a nation at a crossroads.
Information Today Paula J. Hane	Britannica Subsidiary Unveils English-Arabic Search Engine Melingo has just introduced Morfix CL, its English-Arabic-English Cross-Language Search with Embedded Translation. What that means is that English-speaking researchers can search through Arabic material without knowing any Arabic at all--and see a results page with a translation of each Arabic word or phrase.
National Defense March 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Tough Decisions on Future Military Roles and Missions A new commander in chief next year will decide if and when U.S. troops will leave Iraq.
Searcher February 2, 2005 Piper, Ramos	Blogs of War: A Review of Alternative Sources for Iraq War Information No longer are professional journalists and media conglomerates the exclusive information providers in times of conflict.
National Defense October 2004 Joe Pappalardo	U.S. Moves to Rearm Iraq The U.S. government--following an extended delay--is aggressively moving to train and equip Iraqi security forces to provide for the internal and external defense of that war torn nation.
National Defense January 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Complex Realities Lie Behind U.S. Rush to Train Iraqi Army It has become crystal clear that fielding a competent Iraqi Army is a tenet of the U.S. exit strategy. What is far less apparent is what exactly constitutes a competent Iraqi fighting force, and how long it will be before it can relieve American troops.
The Motley Fool December 14, 2006 Tom Taulli	Searching for Big Blue IBM is moving aggressively into the software space.
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	How Astronomical War Budgets Threaten U.S. National Security It is safe to assume that defense budgets will stay high as long as U.S. forces remain in Iraq, and then they will fall. Based on historical trends, the defense budget always takes a dive after a major war. But this time around the defense spending boom may suffer an unparalleled bust.
National Defense February 2008 Grace V. Jean	Armed With Music Players, Soldiers Hunt for Insurgents Loaded with special software, music players help soldiers communicate with the populace, learn the local culture, and serve as handy tools in their tactical missions, such as searching for persons of interest.
Reason July 2004 Jesse Walker	Corporate Soldiers Employees of private security companies in Iraq had been losing their lives, particularly after the spring insurgency began, and the firms found they couldn't rely on the armed forces for protection. So businesses are contracting with each other for military and intelligence support.