NAVY'S IT REPORTING CHAIN GETS AN OVERHAUL
The Navy-Marine Corps Intranet got kicked upstairs last year, when Rear Adm. James B. Godwin III became the direct-reporting program manager for the project. But in late February, his title changed again when Dolores M. Etter essentially did away with DRPMs in the Navy and gave new oomph to her program executive officers. Godwin is now PEO for the new Enterprise Information Systems organization.

WHAT'S BEHIND THE EVOLUTION OF GCCS TO JC2?
I intend to focus this column on questions that you, the readers, send me. This month I’m concentrating on the Defense Department’s upgrade of its Global Command and Control System to the Joint Command and Control system.

TAGGING TECHNOLOGIES GET A TEST IN THE SAND
Ground troops in Iraq tote around portable suitcases of ruggedized equipment to help them keep tabs on shipping containers.

DEFENSE TUNES IN
Who needs CNN? Every day, 24/7, the Pentagon Channel serves up news culled from around the globe. And since November, its programs have been available via podcast for the DOD digiterati, so civilian and uniformed Defense Department workers worldwide can pick up a feed just about anywhere.

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TOUGH TRAVELERS
For real road warriors, ruggedized computers are a necessity and make up a large part of the gear that ships out with any deployment.

Rugged desktop, notebook and handheld PCs have been military staples since the early 1990s. But in the mobile battlespaces of Afghanistan and Iraq, rugged servers, switches, equipment have become crucial combat tools.

Instead of cheap, lightweight plastic, these devices need durable magnesium or titanium alloy cases and transportable chassis. Hinges, connectors and seals for slots and ports must be rugged, too. Disks are often mounted in shock-proofing polymers with built-in sensors to detect an imminent drop.

THE PATTON ALLIANCE MARCHES TOWARD INCREASED PRODUCTIVITY
A private-sector alliance, with the government, helps move promising technologies from R&D to field deployment faster.

WHO IS BEST AT NET-CENTRICITY? HERE’S A HINT: GOOGLE IT
The secret to netcentric success is infrastructure. Google engineers built and operate a protected global network that is completely isolated from the external world except at tightly controlled points of entry.