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National Defense May 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Plans for Global Information Grid Unrealistic A Pentagon effort to develop a global network that connects all military services and Defense Department agencies could fail as a result of current procurement and funding policies, says the Government Accountability Office.
National Defense September 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Engineers Ponder `Modest Adjustments' for Connecting Forces Incompatible weapon systems and disjointed information networks continue to be a source of frustration at the Defense Department.
National Defense August 2009 Jason Jacks	Updated Global Information Grid Would Bring Web 2.0 to the Defense Department Frustrated that the different communications networks deployed by its four branches aren't always able to speak to one another, the Defense Department is moving forward with a major overhaul of its global information grid.
National Defense May 2004 Sandra Erwin	Pentagon Rethinks Management Approach To Joint Tactical Radio The Defense Department's ambitious plans to replace every military radio with a single radio system are being dampened somewhat by the difficulties in coordination among the services and the sheer scope of the project.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 John McHale	JTRS Program Executive to Lead SDR Discussion at Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum One of the chief architects of the U.S. military's Joint Tactical Radio System (JTRS) program will headline the military communications session of the Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum conference and trade show.
National Defense July 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Sticker Shock Felt As New Radios Are Acquired Despite suffering from sticker shock, the military services are proceeding with plans to install a new generation of software-based tactical radios that will be common across all weapon systems.
Military & Aerospace Electronics January 2008 J.R. Wilson	Avionics Enter the 5th Generation Advanced military aircraft such as the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, the F-22 air-superiority jet fighter and the E-2D Hawkeye carrier-based maritime patrol and radar surveillance aircraft, will have powerful avionics systems like never seen before.
National Defense September 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Army Under Pressure to Bring Broadband to The Battlefield In the Army's 2010 modernization roadmap, the "network" is billed as a top priority.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2005	Lt. Gen. Tom Hobbins leads Air Force warfighting integration From his base at U.S. Air Force Headquarters in Washington Lt. Gen. Tom Hobbins, Air Force deputy chief of staff for warfighting integration, is charged with formulating and executing policy and strategy that will move the Air Force.
Military & Aerospace Electronics February 2008 John Keller	TSAT Deserves Support From Congress and the Pentagon Transformation Satellite communication (TSAT) will provide the future high-speed network entry point for military users who do not have ground-based connections.
National Defense May 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Trials and tribulations persist in Joint Tactical Radio The military services are severely slashing their expected buys of the Defense Department's troubled joint tactical radio system.
National Defense October 2005 Joe Pappalardo	Protecting Global Information Grid Requires New Strategy The cornerstone of future defense programs is information technology, but that foundation may contain cracks that endanger the entire effort, according to security experts within the government.
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2005 Ben Ames	Tactical military communications spending to grow to $5.7 billion by 2010 Immediate operational needs for ground forces fighting in Afghanistan and Iraq, with the transformation of the force structure to adopt network-centric warfare, is driving U.S. military forces to spend billions of dollars on digital tactical military communications.
National Defense July 2006	It Does Not Pay to Be `Too Relevant' Skyrocketing War Costs Are Putting Pressure on the Pentagon... Politicians Should Help the Troops... Military Must Learn to Live With Contractors... Navy Making Tough Calls in Aviation...
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2005 John McHale	Networking Tomorrow's Battlefields General Dynamics and Lockheed Martin experts are already designing and demonstrating technologies for a network-centric force on the move through the Warfighter Information Network-Tactical (WIN-T), the U.S. Army's next-generation battlefield network backbone.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2006	Industry, DOD technology cooperation is key to realizing network-centric warfare Col. David W. Madden, director of the enterprise integration group at the Air Force Electronic Systems Center at Hanscom Air Force Base, discusses his group's most pressing technological priorities.
National Defense May 2005 Lawrence P. Farrell	Successful Net-Centric Operations Require Joint Testing The wars U.S. forces are fighting today---and can be expected to fight in the foreseeable future---undoubtedly are shaping the military services' requirements for new and improved technology.
Military & Aerospace Electronics April 2008 John McHale	Forum Brings Out the Most Crucial Aspects of Counter-IEDs, C4I, JTRS, and More The 2008 Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum last month covered the issues such as commercial off-the-shelf (COTS) integration, adaptation of software-defined radio, and lessons learned from Iraq.
National Defense June 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Multibillion-Dollar `Internet in the Sky' Could Help Ease Bandwidth Crunch The Pentagon's bold plan to deploy a constellation of satellites that beam data via lasers is showing signs of progress, but delays and funding cuts also are in the cards, contend industry and military experts.
National Defense December 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Troops in The Digital Age, Disconnected As surprising as it may seem in today's wired culture, troops in combat zones do not have easy access to information.
National Defense June 2004 Michael Peck	Expanding Communications Faced with a bandwidth crunch prompted in part by multiplying flocks of unmanned aerial vehicles that are transmitting multi-megabyte pictures, Defense Department planners are counting on a new generation of communications satellites to expand capacity
National Defense February 2016 Jon Harper	Defense Department Moving Slowly on 'Internet of Things' The "Internet of Things" is a key component of the military's modernization strategy. But the Pentagon is behind the curve due to security concerns and other impediments, cyber experts said.
National Defense August 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Closest of Allies, But Not When it Comes to Radios Despite considerable advances in tactical communications technology interoperability on the battlefield between U.S. and U.K. forces remains years away.
Military & Aerospace Electronics May 2005 J.R. Wilson	Transformational Communications The world of military communications is on the verge of massive and revolutionary change, driving towards a networked battlespace. Still, what matters most is the person at the "pointy end of the spear."
National Defense May 2013 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Eyes Deals With Satellite Industry to Fill Demand for Drone Communications A group of Pentagon officials was given three months to come up with a plan to boost the supply of satellite bandwidth that is needed to support the military's growing fleet of unmanned aerial vehicles.
HBS Working Knowledge May 16, 2012	Can Decades of Military Overspending be Fixed? Costs tend to rise in all organizations unless managers and their staffs have the motivation and skill to control them. This phenomenon is analyzed during 50 years of US military overspending.
National Defense September 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Energy: Small, Incremental Steps Do Better Than Sweeping Reforms The Air Force saved $700 million in its five-year fuel budget just by redirecting flights through shorter routes and choreographing more efficient itineraries for cargo deliveries.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004	Air Force Looks to the Next Generation of Avionics Networking In September, Air Force and industry leaders ran a time--critical targeting exercise at Hanscom Air Force Base, Mass. Their goal was to reduce the sensor-to-shooter timeline by combining data from disparate sensors, air platforms, and ground stations
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 May 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Weapons Budget: The More You Spend, The Less You Buy A hyperinflation tsunami now threatens to sink the Defense Department's purchasing power so dramatically that a weapons budget that currently funds 95 programs will pay for just a handful of big-ticket programs
Military & Aerospace Electronics July 2007 John McHale	Can You Hear me Now? Military designers are using more and more commercial-off-the shelf (COTS) equipment to provide warfighters on land, sea, and in the air with a communications network that goes beyond line of sight and provides data in real time.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2007 John McHale	Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense Ronald c. Jost to Keynote Military & Aerospace Electronics Forum Conference in March Session topics include: COTS integration panel discussion, COTS acquisition, software-defined radio and the Joint Tactical Radio System program, IPv6 and its influence on military systems, information assurance, and more.
National Defense July 2012 Dan Ward	Tactical Radios: Military Procurement Gone Awry How exactly did the Army go about making the radio better and better? By increasing its complexity, extending the schedule, spending more money and making the device larger.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2009 John McHale	SDR: A Spectrum of Possibilities Whether it is called a disruptive technology or a paradigm shift in communications, the proliferation of software-defined radio (SDR) technology is changing the way the military and other industries view radio communications.
National Defense January 2012 Stew Magnuson	Rise of Smartphones May Sound Death Knell for Old Push-to-Talk Radios Handing an infantryman a device the size and shape of a brick that can only perform one task, voice communications, may soon be akin to issuing him a musket.
National Defense April 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Military Hardware: What Do Users Want? At a time when the Pentagon is under orders to make "tough choices" about which weapons it should acquire, military buyers may want to consider paying more attention to what troops in the field really need.
Military & Aerospace Electronics December 2004	Software-Defined Radio and Jtrs The U.S. military's next-generation radio system is to be based on software-defined radios, which will enable one radio to communicate with several radio networks, no matter the type of radio, whether it be SINCGARS or a satellite terminal.
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 May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Gates: Industry Unharmed By Program Cancellations The Pentagon needs to stop buying "exquisite" technology that does not meet real military needs in favor of larger quantities of critical items.
National Defense June 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Despite SecDef Pleas, Pentagon Is Losing the Innovation War As a result of not knowing what technologies are available, the military ends up with systems that become obsolete within a few years.
National Defense April 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Amid Political Backlash, Pentagon Pushes Forward With Green Energy Military and civilian defense officials responsible for green initiatives increasingly are flummoxed and frustrated by the demonization of renewable energy. When did efforts to save lives and money become cheap partisan fodder?
National Defense January 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense, Industry Upheaval Defined By 10 Key Moments Here's a look back at 10 key moments that defined the decade for the military and the defense industry.
Military & Aerospace Electronics October 2008 John McHale	SDR: Here, There, and Everywhere Software-defined radio technology, driven by the Joint Tactical Radio System program, is enhancing communications throughout the U.S. military and in civilian and commercial applications worldwide.
National Defense August 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Looming Budget Cutbacks Underpin Defense Strategy How long the fighting in Iraq will last is anyone's guess. It seems quite certain, however, that mounting war costs will be wreaking financial havoc on many of the military's prized weapon systems. Are decision makers at the Pentagon guilty of shortsightedness?
National Defense February 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Foreign Policy Ambition Overlooks War Lessons The Obama administration has endorsed a major expansion of ground forces, and a surge in military capabilities to conduct "irregular" warfare against non-state actors.
Defense Update Issue 1, 2005	Mobile Cellular Networks in Military Use For more than a decade, military Command, Control and Communications (C3) systems benefit from the rapid pace of development of consumer mobile wireless communications and computing products
National Defense June 2006 Sandra Erwin	Commanders' Wish List Makes for Wishful Thinking Since the early days of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, much of the Pentagon's equipment buys have fulfilled critical battlefield needs. But the Pentagon has failed to deliver in some areas, especially in those involving information technologies.
National Defense September 2009 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Program Terminations Invariably Have Unintended Consequences One of the most controversial decisions was to end the F-22 fighter program at 187 aircraft. Some pundits, defense intellectuals and even government officials have contended that the F-22 is a Cold War weapon that is not needed for today's world.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 Ben Ames	Engineers Learn to Blend Technologies in Joint Fighting Platforms To work effectively in joint warfighting, systems must be designed to cooperate from their inception, not patched together after the fact, says Navy Admiral Walter F. Doran, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.