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Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 |
DataPath Selects ViaSat's LinkWay Satellite-Communications Networking Solution The LinkWay system enables direct connections between battalion and brigade command locations without the need of a central hub. The system uses ViaSat Dynamic Bandwidth Resource Allocation technology to reduce satellite bandwidth costs through automatic, adaptive assignment and advanced coding.  |
Defense Update Issue 3, 2005 |
Tactical C4 Networking Challenges Today's land forces are driven by significantly better communications, more affordable, ruggedized and reliable computers, and advanced applications that are becoming an indispensable tool for leaders at all levels of command.  |
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.  |
Defense Update Issue 3, 2005 |
C4 Networking Architecture Current systems are integrated over a common mesh network infrastructure, sharing a common grid, and Geographic Information Database (GIS).  |
National Defense March 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
War Lessons Should Not Be Politicized, Says CENTCOM Chief The organization in charge of gathering and reporting those lessons, the U.S. Joint Forces Command, deployed teams and embedded them with units in the field to get a first-hand look at the operations.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 |
German defense forces look to Rohde & Schwarz for military software-defined radio technology Leaders of the German armed forces needed military software-defined radio technology for future military command and control technology, as well as for interoperable information and military communications networking.  |
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.  |
Defense Update Issue 3, 2005 |
Common Operation Picture (COP) Together, intelligence data and Blue Forces Tracking are fused to generate the digital map based Common Operational Picture (COP), which replaces traditional paper-based situational maps used for many generations.  |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005 |
Combat Implementation of the NCW Doctrine Even with the most advanced technology in C4ISR available in OIF, the surprisingly ultra-rapid advance of US led coalition ground forces, often left division, corps headquarters out of the communications loop.  |
National Defense February 2004 Harold Kennedy |
From Buck Private to Chief of SOCOM Gen. Bryan "Doug" Brown -- who became head of the U.S. Special Operations Command in September -- joined the Army as a private in 1967.  |
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.  |
Defense Update Issue 3, 2005 |
The Modern Command Post Tactical Operations Center Modern command posts are equipped with the latest technology to collect, disseminate, share and present information in clear and informative way.  |
National Defense July 2010 Stew Magnuson |
Space Command Ponders Role in Irregular Warfare Military communications, reconnaissance and GPS satellites provide services to deployed forces every day, but the organization wants to know what more it can do to participate in the irregular warfare that ground forces are currently engaged in.  |
National Defense April 2004 Steve Callicutt & Larry McKee |
Air Force Takes Lead in Net-Centric Operations The U.S. military services have made significant progress in networking their weapons systems and sharing battlefield data during the last 10-15 years. But more work is needed to ensure seamless information flow and to improve joint command-and-control.  |
National Defense June 2006 Grace Jean |
Commandos see expanded mission portfolio To boost its unconventional warfare capabilities, Canada is revamping its special operations military organization and emphasizing counter-terrorism skills in elite unit training programs.  |
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.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2006 Courtney E. Howard |
Network-Centric Operations and Technology Take Center Stage at MTC 2006 A top U.S. Air Force expert stressed the importance of the U.S. military's move from a weapons-centric to a network-centric model of future warfare in a keynote address he delivered at the 2006 Military Technologies Conference.  |
National Defense February 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Special Ops Command:No New Equipment Needed The Pentagon began a major expansion of U.S. special operations forces two years ago, but contractors won't see increased purchases of new high-tech equipment for SOF units.  |
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 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.  |
National Defense October 2004 |
Army Trying to Get Better Grasp on War Zone Intelligence Under the banner of "every soldier is a sensor," the Army is pushing the notion that ground troops are primary sources of valuable battlefield intelligence.  |
National Defense June 2004 Sandra I. Erwin |
More Than Technology Is Needed to Win Wars As events unfold in Iraq, much second-guessing goes on in Washington, not just about the overall U.S. strategy or lack thereof, but also on whether the hundreds of billions of dollars allocated every year to weapon systems are being spent on the right things.  |
National Defense July 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Memo to Commanders: Less Micromanaging U.S. technological prowess has made it possible to centralize command-and-control functions in the military, to the point that a general sitting at the Pentagon can micromanage a war half a world away.  |
National Defense June 2004 |
Information Fusion Becomes a Reality Lockheed Martin Corp. recently unveiled a Web-based software package---called the joint war-fighters decision support platform---that is configured on an open architecture premise and will give the troops a cohesive and clarified view of the battlefield in real-time.  |
National Defense April 2009 Grace V. Jean |
Low-Tech Needs Trump High-Tech Dreams Forget the latest and greatest technologies. U.S. special operations forces want tried-and-tested combat gear that they can easily take from one country to another.  |
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 August 2007 Grace Jean |
Defense Technologies for an Uncertain Future The United States is at a crossroads when it comes to developing defense technologies for a future that seems obscure at best.  |
National Defense January 2006 Harold Kennedy |
U.S. European Command Seeks to Deploy More Easily As NATO wrestles with issues of growth, the U.S. European Command, which supplies American forces to the alliance, is undergoing major changes of its own.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008 |
Northrop Grumman Completes Integration of Third Payload Module for Advanced EHF Satellites Boeing completes mission system flight testing for U.S. AWACS Block 40/45 upgrade... LynxOS-178 powers Rockwell Collins next-generation avionics... etc.  |
National Defense July 2005 Sandra I. Erwin |
Language Barriers Hinder Multinational Operations U.S. military allies view language barriers, rather than incompatible technology, as a primary obstacle to multinational operations.  |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005 |
Command and Control (C2) Systems for the Tactical Echelon Modern C4I systems are feeding huge amounts of information into the tactical operating center (TOC) where such information is processed, interpreted and displayed on maps and status reports.  |
Reason November 2005 Matt Welch |
Rummy's Posse The main thrust of an 1878 law -- keeping the four fighting branches of the military away from American citizens -- has stood firm. Until now.  |
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
NFL-Quality Rehab For Some Wounded Warriors The military's elite warriors who are injured in combat will have access to medical care and rehabilitation services akin to the treatments given to the nation's superstar athletes.  |
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005 |
Military Wireless Data Networks High speed wireless data networks are integrating communications between different command levels down to the divisions and brigades.  |
National Defense August 2010 Eric Beidel |
Remotely Piloted Aviation Looks to Gaming Technology The line separating military training and video games continues to become thinner as the military is training a generation that grew up on video games.  |
National Defense August 2007 James A. Gavrilis |
Army Must Embrace Unconventional Fight Even a major unconventional campaign such as Iraq can have major conventional operations as part of it. In war the two are not mutually exclusive. The trick is finding the right mix.  |
InternetNews April 15, 2010 |
Cyber Command Plans to Focus on Coordination Nominee for the new Department of Defense position says the agency is going to lead other agencies in cyber attacks instead of waging its own.  |
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 February 2010 Grace V. Jean |
'Culture Maps' Becoming Essential Tools of War The U.S. military has access to the world's best topographic maps. It is now trying to build "culture maps" that include details such as a region's tribal affiliations, ethnicity, religion and language.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John McHale |
Networking-on-the-Move Capability Highlights Content at 2007 Military Technologies Conference U.S. DOD and industry experts will discuss the challenges, as well as the lessons learned and potential solutions to enabling networking on the move for today and tomorrow's conflicts, at the Military Technologies Conference.  |
National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Army Reorganizes Training for Intelligence Units "The focus now is on getting soldiers used to identifying information that could be useful" to commanders in Afghanistan, says Army Maj. Eric Butler says during a recent teleconference with military bloggers.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 John McHale |
Can You Hear me Now? Military designers are using more and more commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) equipment to provide warfighters on land, sea, and in the air with a communications network that goes beyond line of sight and provides data in real time.  |
National Defense February 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Foreign Policy Ambition Overlooks War Lessons The Obama administration has endorsed a major expansion of ground forces, and a surge in military capabilities to conduct "irregular" warfare against non-state actors.  |
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin |
Mathematical Models: The Latest Weapons Against Urban Insurgencies The Defense Department is asking for models of social agendas and social behaviors to help them win the war.  |
National Defense February 2005 Tiron & Pappalardo |
Sharper Focus On Special Operators Seen Worldwide Special operations forces around the world are being molded in the image of the elite military units of the United States, a development that is likely to shape future coalitions.  |
InternetNews April 16, 2010 |
Juniper Beefs Up Networking for the Military The U.S military needs gear that can take a beating, given its missions in global hot-spots. Juniper says it's got the equipment that can fulfill those needs and provide enterprise-class performance.  |
National Defense February 2005 Michael Peck |
Soldiers Learn Hazards Of War in Virtual Reality The U.S. Army is testing the utility of a web-based training technology, the military version of the popular multiplayer online role-playing games, that lets soldiers share their combat experiences with troops preparing to deploy.  |
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 February 2006 John McHale |
A Message from the Editor The Military Technologies Conference will zero in on the hottest and most promising technologies that will make the network-centric American fighting force a reality.  |
National Defense January 2006 Grace Jean |
Navy Reshuffle Will Move Thousands Of Sailors to Brown-Water Duties The Navy plans to tackle terrorism and other unconventional threats via a massive reorganization that will shift thousands of sailors from traditional duties. This new approach will permit the sea service to conduct operations on land and close up in shallow water.  |