BEING CIVIL: NORTHCOM LEARNS THE ROPES OF SHARING WITH
NON-DEFENSE AGENCIES
Like the other regional combatant
commands, the Northern Command faces command, control and communications
interoperability issues with mission partners.
JOINT FORCES’ INTEL CHIEF CHRISTOPHER B. JACKSON SEES
VALUE IN MAXING OUT DATA SHARING
Intelligence gatherers and
analysts need to have as many ways of collecting information as they do
understanding what makes their adversary tick. In other words, they must
be ingenious in deciphering the enemy’s language, his culture, his
motivations, his influences.
FOG OF WAR MAKES TRANSFORMATION TOUGHER
Editor’s note: John P. Stenbit is giving up his column to
concentrate on his work with corporate and government boards. Defense
Systems editor Dawn S. Onley chatted with the former Defense Department
CIO to get some final thoughts on where he sees DOD heading.
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PROTESTS TAKE A BITE OUT OF ITES-2
There’s nothing happening on the 11 contracts the Army awarded for
the follow-on to the popular IT Enterprise Solutions procurement.
NETWORKS GET CLOAK OF INVISIBILITY
A new
communications device from ReSrc (pronounced Resource) Inc. does for
networks what the Cloaking Device does for Romulan space ships: makes
them effectively invisible.
AUDITORS AND DEFENSE DISAGREE OVER UAV ROLLOUT
Although the Army acknowledges that more work must be done on two key IT
components for its unmanned aircraft vehicle, Warrior, it rejects the
Government Accountability Office claim that it must revise its plans for
rolling out the UAVs, expected to cost $4.4 million apiece.
SOME OF THIS AND A LITTLE OF THAT
At SI
International Inc. of Reston, Va., which has been helping DOD manage its
IP Version 6 transition since 2003, IT engineering director Alan
Sekelsky sees “a lot of small things coming together: technology
insertion, networking, applications, security and testing.”
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