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home > January/February 2006 issue


DODAF 101 The Global Information Grid and Future Combat Systems get more attention, but the Defense Department's most influential systems effort in this decade could well be the emerging DOD Architectural Framework.DODAF grew out of the late 1990s' drive to begin standardizing systems for command, control, communications, computers, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance. If DODAF proponents succeed at this long-range standardization effort, they will bring present and future C4ISR and other Defense systems into alignment with long-term

The Pentagon's Rush Hour Bandwidth. Bandwidth. Bandwidth. It's been a rallying cry for uniforms and suits alike at the Defense Department-for literally decades. With the full rollout of the Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program at 86 sites late last year, a lot of bandwidth arrived. Now, DOD's charge is to make the most efficient use of it.

Blueprint for Battle on the Business Front Where's Ty Pennington, the flaky but winsome host of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," when you need him?For years the Defense Department's efforts to modernize its business systems have resembled a home makeover gone bad, extremely bad.


LETTERS FROM THE EDITOR Welcome To Defense Systems

UPFRONT Remembering An Original Thinker: The Legacy Of DOD's Father Of Information Age Transformation, Arthur K. Cebrowski

UPFRONT Croom's game plan for serving up aces as DISA chief

UPFRONT 9 Big Buys to Keep Your Eye On

UPFRONT Architecture Lesson: It's How You Use An EA That Counts

CIO VIEW Converged Voice, Data, Video: The Network As Weapons System

LIFECYCLE VIEW Transformation In Acquisition: Calling All Hands

AGENCY RECON Content Management Shortens Information Chain

BEYOND THE DOG TAG A Chat with John G. Grimes, new Defense CIO

OUTSIDE IN Field It Faster: Our Warriors Can't Wait

TOUR OF DUTY Defending the Nation Takes People, Information and Systems-Working in Unison


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