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National Defense
April 2004
Mike Cast |
Army-Led Team Probes Joint Logistics Gaps The U.S. Army Developmental Test Command is sponsoring a test and evaluation program aimed at improving joint logistics processes.   |
National Defense
February 2004
Harold Kennedy |
SOCOM Creates New Hub For Fighting War on Terror The U.S. Special Operations Command has reorganized its headquarters at MacDill Air Force Base, Fla., in order to fulfill a new leadership role in the war on terrorism. |
National Defense
December 2007
Stew Magnuson |
Strategic Command Selling Itself to Field Commanders The officers at U.S. Strategic Command are trying to sell their ability to support commanding officers. |
Parameters
Winter 2005/2006
Mitchell J. Thompson |
Breaking the Proconsulate: A New Design for National Power There have been few truly transformational changes to the institutions of national security, only slight modifications to the existing ones. |
Parameters
Autumn 2007
Gregory L. Cantwell |
Nation-Building: A Joint Enterprise When America's Army is at war, is the nation also at war? |
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
Harold Kennedy |
U.S. Northern Command Actively Enlisting Partners The U.S. Northern Command--established in 2002 to prevent a repeat of 9/11--is seeking assistance from a wide range of organizations to help it protect the United States, its territories and interests, said Army Col. Stover James, the organization's director of interagency coordination. |
National Defense
September 2015
Sandra I. Erwin |
U.S. Central Command Leads Push to Connect Allies in Common Network U.S. military leaders in regional commands have coped with limited interoperability with allies by setting up one-off communications systems. |
National Defense
July 2004
Sandra I. Erwin |
Revised Rules for Close Air Support Under new procedures now in place, all participants in close air-support operations will be trained to follow the same protocols across all services, and will employ common terminology for assigning targets and ordering air-to-ground strikes. |
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
April 2004
Lawrence P. Farrell Jr. |
War Realities Call for New Approach to Logistics The United States, for decades, has served as the world's model for how to plan and execute military logistics, but it's clear that the growing demands of global deployments and rapid-response operations call for changes in how the nation supports and sustains its forces. |
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
June 2013
James E. Rainey |
Readers Sound Off on Recent Stories What can we do right now to improve how we fight modern wars? Second, how do we create, in the words of Gen. Robert Cone, "a structural imperative that ensures we do not lose the lessons of the last decade of war?" |
National Defense
February 2008
Breanne Wagner |
Special Operators Ponder the Right Mix of Roles and Missions U.S. Special Operations Command is growing. From 48,000 personnel today, its numbers are expected to increase to 58,000 in the coming years. But how will they be used? |
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. |
National Defense
December 2006
Stew Magnuson |
Strategic Command's Expanded Portfolio Prompts Skepticism Stratcom is wrapping up a four-year process where it has reinvented itself, and taken eight missions into its fold. Now comes the hard part: proving to the rest of the U.S. defense community that it can effectively deliver its services. |
National Defense
April 2005
Harold Kennedy |
Special Operations Command Plans for Expanded Role in U.S. War on Terrorism The new role for special operations forces would not interfere with the U.S. Central Command's leadership in Iraq or Afghanistan. |
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. |
National Defense
February 2005
Sandra I. Erwin |
Transportation Command Searches For Ways to Expedite Troop Rotations In an attempt to accelerate the movement of troops in and out of Iraq, the U.S. Transportation Command is reorganizing its operations and adopting new web-based technology to help synchronize the complex logistics effort. |
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
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
September 2005 |
Navy builds portable network with Dataline unit Network engineers in the U.S. Department of Defense needed remote communications units for mobile military forces. They found a solution with the Mobile Command Center Ultra Light Kit from Dataline. |
National Defense
January 2007
Grace Jean |
Marine Corps' Vision for the Future Requires More Training, Technology Beginning this month, the Marine Corps will start testing a new war-fighting concept aimed at countering unconventional enemies. The technologies that would support it, however, are lagging, officials said. |
Military & Aerospace Electronics
May 2005 |
Air Force builds wireless network with Eagle Broadband Non-line-of-sight satellite communications technology is providing needed secure wireless communications system for Scott Air Force Base in Illinois. The technology enables users to make wireless voice and data calls from virtually anywhere on Earth -- even obstructed areas. |
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. |
HBS Working Knowledge
January 12, 2004
Martha Lagace |
Does Your HQ Operation Fit With Corporate Strategy? Is a lean headquarters operation the key to success? How should headquarters design fit with corporate strategy? New research from professor David J. Collis has surprising answers. |
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. |
National Defense
February 2007
Erwin & Jean |
Pentagon's African Command: Will It Float? While Pentagon officials fine-tune plans to create a new military command to oversee Africa, Navy leaders are floating a proposal to base that command's headquarters on a ship at sea. |
National Defense
June 2005
Harold Kennedy |
Joint Force: Capital Unit Seen as Prototype for Homeland Defense A newly organized all-services command charged with protecting the Washington, D.C., region from terrorist attacks, natural disasters and civil disturbances is expected to serve as the model for defending other key regions in the United States. |
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. |
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. |
Defense Update
Issue 1, 2005 |
Mobile Command Post Operation There is one important item in communications, which was overlooked for some time, due to fast developing technologies- the ability to monitor, simultaneously, several communications channels by the same commander, in popular parlance "eavesdropping". |
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. |
Macworld
July 2001
Stephan Somogyi |
Take Command of Mac OS X The command line makes your Mac more powerful... |
National Defense
April 2008
Stew Magnuson |
Special Operations Command: It Takes Too Long to Get Equipment To carry out their mission in Iraq, special operators will need better sensors, more up to date aircraft, and additional tactical trucks. |
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. |
National Defense
July 2015
Jon Harper |
Surveillance Technology a Priority For Special Operations Forces Members of U.S. Special Operations Command's aviation component face difficult technological challenges as they seek to improve their ability to find, track and destroy the enemy. |
CRM
July 2011
Zach Hofer-Shall |
Rx for Social Intelligence Center If you are considering implementing a social intelligence command center or are piloting a program, these practices can help ensure success. |
National Defense
May 2007
Robert H. Williams |
Enhanced Communication-Information Centers Fielded U.S. military leaders in South Korea have received new command center technologies that were developed by the project manager of Defense Communications and Army Transmission Systems. |
PC World
September 2005
Scott Dunn |
Windows' Command Line Puts You in Control Text commands can make quick work of many Windows tasks; plus, a free file-copy utility. |
PC Magazine
February 17, 2004
Neil J. Rubenking |
Move Numbers within Filenames Is there a utility or method to help me batch rename files to put track numbers at the front? |
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. |
PC Magazine
August 30, 2006 |
Batch File Redirection Oddity Redirecting the output of a batch file in Windows XP |
