Cebrowski praises changes to Army's Future Combat Systems plans
The Army's realignment of its Future Combat Systems plans represents a change "from a monolithic program to a strategy," retired Vice Adm. Arthur K. Cebrowski said today.
Dell overhauls its venerable server line
Dell Inc.'s PowerEdge server line, born in 1996, has entered its eighth generation and within a few months will be able to store a maximum 1.4T per unit on forthcoming 300G drives.
Army recruits IT blues to green
The Defense Department approved the Army's plan to recruit IT experts and intelligence and imagery analysts from fellow military services.
HP handheld joins up with more networks
The Hewlett-Packard iPaq 6315 coming out this month will be HP's first handheld to incorporate wireless voice connectivity as well as e-mail, text and instant messaging, and data communications through T-Mobile USA Inc. of Bellevue, Wash.
New iPaq model includes voice, snap-on keyboard
The Hewlett-Packard iPaq 6315 will incorporate wireless voice connectivity as well as e-mail, text and instant messaging, and data communications.
Air Force users collaborate on a joint workspace
The essence of online community is 'having all the resources you need in one place,' believes Bill Dennehy, a software engineer at the Air Armament Center of Eglin Air Force Base, Fla.
West Point's help desks are all in step
A help desk application generally does handyman duty, finding lost passwords or summoning assistance to fix what's broken. Users at the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, N.Y., however, converted their help app into more of a virtual butler.
DOD wants standardized platform for weapons use
The Defense Department's transformation initiative has 'built up a bow wave of change,' Air Force Maj. Gen. Marc 'Buck' Rogers said at last week's Joint Warfare 2004 conference in Arlington, Va.
Robots pressed into defense duties
The Defense Department has about 70 robots on explosives disposal duty in Iraq and Afghanistan, and the Joint Robotics Office in the Office of the Secretary is preparing to spend $18 million on 163 more robots, at the request of Central Command.
Satellites, from the ground up
After a recent move to new quarters in Ashburn, Va., Veloris A. 'Sonny' Marshall III and his 25 employees are back at work packing satellite receiving equipment into hardened 'flyaway' cases for shipment from Dulles International Airport to federal sites around the world.
Needed: common platform for shooters
The Defense Department has 'built up a bow wave of change,' Air Force Maj. Gen. Marc 'Buck' Rogers said today.
Space Command salutes Section 508
At Air Force Space Command headquarters in Colorado Springs, Colo., there's an office for OPTN'Air Force lingo for 'operationalizing and professionalizing the network.' But the IT staff got no special Web training until last summer.
Capitol is now a hotspot in more ways than one
On the steps of the Supreme Court, officials of the Open Park Project of Washington and Tropos Networks Inc. of San Mateo, Calif., in March turned on the first pair of a half-dozen IEEE 802.11b WiFi cells and invited the public to surf.
DOD sings satellite bandwidth blues
Military satellite strategists have complained about a lack of bandwidth. But one has qualified that to mean user-perceived throughput.
Radio waves figure to change the shape of IT
RFID will be the most disruptive new development, leading technologists said at a Senate conference earlier this year on emerging technologies.
Feds closing in on biometric policy
A meeting of 28 agencies late last month produced three areas of agreement on governmentwide biometric policy, said John D. Woodward Jr., director of the Defense Department's Biometrics Management Office.
Solaris goes open-source
Sun Microsystems Inc. confirms long-rumored plans to make its proprietary Solaris operating system open-source.
Cisco's new era in router availability
CIOs check out Cisco's new fast router. Stenbit: no hourglasses on the screen.
Online Extra: Class data feeds
Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System data feeds
Weather agency goes first-CLASS
One of the world's largest stores of environmental data is now online at a dual-sited federal portal called CLASS.The Comprehensive Large Array-data Stewardship System in March began serving up more than 41T'that's terabytes'worth of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration environmental data collected from satellite and ground observations. CLASS operates out of the National Climatic Data Center in Asheville, N.C., and the Office of Satellite Data Processing and Distribution in Suitland, Md.
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