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National Defense January 2015 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Rapid Acquisition Groups Break Mold of Slow Pentagon Procurement System The Army's Rapid Equipping Force and the Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization, both established during the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, were created in order to meet urgent operational needs rapidly.
National Defense October 2005 Joe Pappalardo	As Military Becomes More Reliant On Networks, Vulnerabilities Grow If problems are not addressed, the Pentagon could spend $200 billion during the next 10 years on a network with serious vulnerabilities, according to security experts.
National Defense January 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	'Milspec' Technology Makes a Comeback A rising propensity to "militarize" the Defense Department's information networks will be making it more difficult for the Pentagon to take advantage of cutting-edge technologies from the commercial sector, say analysts and industry experts.
The Motley Fool September 29, 2010 Gabriel Perna	R.I.M. Needs This PlayBook Did they do everything right?
National Defense April 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's Promise to War-Bound Soldiers: A Wireless Mobile Network If the Army's new tech-buying strategy goes according to plan, soldiers soon may be ditching paper maps, staticky radios and bulky satellite receivers.
National Defense June 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Smartphones-for-Soldiers Campaign Hits Wall as Army Experiences Growing Pains "A smartphone for every soldier" may be a clever slogan. But trying to turn it into reality is becoming an uphill battle for the U.S. Army.
National Defense August 2013 Valerie Insinna	Pentagon Working to Quickly Acquire Mobile Technologies The Defense Information Systems Agency is in the midst of implementing a commercial mobile device plan that will allow for quicker adoption of the latest smartphones and tablets.
National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Without Radical Change, Many More Defense Programs Will End Up Like JSF The breathless hype over the F-35 Joint Strike Fighter's soaring costs and schedule slips clouds a much bigger acquisition predicament for the Pentagon: How to stop more programs from ending up like JSF.
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 November 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Lawmakers Question Defense Strategy for 'Rapid' Acquisitions The House Armed Services Committee questions whether the Pentagon can permanently change the way it buys equipment so it does not have to create a new agency every time there is an urgent need.
National Defense May 2015 Sandra I. Erwin	Procurement Issues That Congress Won't Fix The new foreign policy mantra in Washington is that the world is on fire. The nation's weapons procurement machine, meanwhile, keeps partying like it's 1999.
National Defense December 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Obliged to Add Troops, Army Agonizes Over Costs Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Richard A. Cody asserts the issue that should have been more thoroughly debated by political leaders, but has largely been ignored, is not the draft, but rather how the nation will pay for the additional troops the Army requires to keep fighting in Iraq and Afghanistan.
InternetNews September 27, 2010	RIM Unveils PlayBook Tablet RIM takes the wraps off of its long-awaited entry into the tablet market, billing the new PlayBook device as "enterprise-ready" and a natural next step for current BlackBerry users.
Food Processing September 2013 Anthony Hernandez	Protecting Your Data in a Mobile World If food companies adopt a bring-your-own-device approach, they need to establish clear policies and implement IT security controls.
The Motley Fool October 19, 2011 Evan Niu	Can Android Save Research In Motion? Research In Motion announces its new software strategy, but it won't be enough.
National Defense September 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon to Revamp IT Buying Practices But the Pentagon has yet to master the procurement of high-tech networks and information systems, a senior official said.
The Motley Fool May 2, 2011 Arunava De	Can Research In Motion Withstand the Apple Onslaught? The wireless innovator could still recover from the PlayBook's muted launch.
National Defense July 2005 Sandra Erwin	BRAC `05 Choices Embody Lingering Terrorism Fears Against the current technology-driven backdrop, it would seem counterintuitive that the Pentagon's proposed base-closure and realignment plan reverts in many ways to the bunker mentality that prevailed during the Cold War.
The Motley Fool December 8, 2010 Priyanka Banerjee	BlackBerry Maker Unfolds Future Plans The QNX-based BlackBerry Tablet OS in the upcoming PlayBook tablet will make its way to multi-core BlackBerry smartphones and tablets in different sizes over the next ten years.
National Defense January 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Budget Squeeze Could Spur Defense Industry Shakeup To borrow a line from Casey at the Bat, there is no joy in Mudville. Defense industry executives, with good reason, are experiencing considerable anxiety as Pentagon budget cuts lurk around the corner.
National Defense March 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Efforts to Reorganize U.S. Army Tied to Emergency War Spending As Iraq war costs approach the $300 billion mark, the Defense Department's increasing reliance on emergency appropriations to pay for military equipment is stirring controversy on Capitol Hill.
National Defense November 2006 Harold Kennedy	Military R&D could see decline in coming years Faced with a growing need to replenish war-ravaged equipment, Defense Department research and development spending is expected to level off and, then, gradually decrease through the balance of this decade.
The Motley Fool November 8, 2011 Rick Aristotle Munarriz	Sell Research In Motion Before It's Too Late The BlackBerry maker is hit with another downgrade.
InternetNews March 18, 2011	Microsoft's Office 365 Coming to BlackBerry, PlayBook Research In Motion is rolling out new cloud services later this year as it partners with Microsoft to port over its cloud-based enterprise app suite.
National Defense May 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	Army's iPhone Dreams Clash With Reality The Army launched a competition to see if techies can design soldier-friendly smartphone applications. The contest may be premature, however, as it could be years before the Army adopts smartphones as standard soldier equipment.
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.
National Defense December 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Competitive Prototyping 'Brings Out the Best' in Contractors As a result of massive cost overruns and performance failures in major weapon systems, the Pentagon is now requiring competing contractors to build real-world functioning prototypes of their proposed hardware.
National Defense February 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Military Rivalries Rekindled Over `Roles and Missions' The team spirit seen on the front lines typically does not translate into affable negotiations at the Pentagon's budget table, where the services wage bureaucratic wars for their share of a $420 billion defense pie.
National Defense March 2007 Lawrence P. Farrell	Defense Budget Sets Stage for Tough Choices Ahead As Congress continues to dissect the details of the Bush administration's proposed defense budget for fiscal year 2008, it is becoming increasingly apparent that the nation's military faces a worrisome financial future.
National Defense March 2012 Sandra I. Erwin	Pentagon Budget Cuts Are Only Prelude to Future 'Grand Bargain' Politicians and think tanks have been hyperventilating over the $487 billion budget cut that the Pentagon will have to make during the next decade.
InternetNews July 13, 2010	RIM Preps BlackBerry Security App Research In Motion is preparing to offer a free secure backup service for its BlackBerry customers.
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 May 2009 Sandra I. Erwin	Gates Reshapes the Budget, Can He Change the Culture? Defense Secretary Robert Gates' reshuffle of the Pentagon's $1.7 trillion weapons portfolio contained no major surprises.
InternetNews August 9, 2006 Ed Sutherland	Bugs in Your BlackBerry Software could be first exploit tailored to the BlackBerry e-mail device.
National Defense November 2010 Sandra I. Erwin	'Cutting-Edge' Weapons No Longer the Holy Grail Because of the war experience and the fiscal outlook, experts predict, the Defense Department will for some time remain conflicted about how it should spend its research dollars.
National Defense November 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Department Should Refocus Technology Spending, Experts Warn Investments in technology tend to miss the mark and do little to enhance the United States' competitive standing as a high-tech powerhouse, said Pentagon advisors and outside analysts.
National Defense February 2006 Stew Magnuson	Network Vulnerabilities Worry Pentagon Pentagon officials call the Defense Department's global communications network its weakest link. The question is how to manage the risk, and create a balance between security and the necessity of working with international partners and the private sector.
The Motley Fool June 19, 2011 Wolfgang Gruener	RIM's BlackBerry Can Rise Again It just needs the right business partners and an independent focus.
National Defense January 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	DoD Clashes With Suppliers Over Data Rights The clash pits military buyers who want to break up suppliers' monopolies against companies whose livelihood depends on keeping tight control over their designs.
The Motley Fool September 11, 2010 Anders Bylund	Investment Banks Find a Cure for CrackBerry Addiction! Several large investment banks are looking into using Apple iPhones and Google Android handsets for corporate email on the go, rather than requiring the use of BlackBerry phones.
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.
The Motley Fool December 2, 2011 Evan Niu	Someone Has to Pay for All These PlayBooks Research In Motion announced it won't meet its earnings guidance and is taking a big hit on PlayBooks.
National Defense January 2008 Sandra I. Erwin	Bigger Budgets Disguise Larger Fiscal Dilemmas Nowhere is the financial outlook for the Defense Department more uncertain than in the procurement budget.
National Defense July 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Hope and Despair in Government Procurement It's crunch time for acquisition reformers as they face a July deadline to submit recommendations to the House and Senate Armed Services Committees.
National Defense May 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	Should the Pentagon Rescue Ailing Suppliers? It is an inevitable consequence of plunging budget cycles that suppliers go out of business, and the Pentagon typically has favored a laissez-faire industrial policy even though the defense sector is far from a free market.
National Defense March 2014 Sandra I. Erwin	In '15 Budget, Red Flags for Contractors If defense industry CEOs can draw any conclusion from the Pentagon's 2015 budget proposal it is that, except for the too-big-to-fail joint strike fighter, most of the military's modernization plan is on shaky ground.
National Defense March 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Raise Stirs Questions on `Fair Pay' A proposed 2.2 percent pay raise for military personnel (the same raise that the Bush administration recommended for civilian workers) raised eyebrows in Washington. Giving equal salary increments to military and civilians, critics argue, implies that the Pentagon is failing to reward the dangerous work that troops are doing in Iraq.
National Defense February 2016 Jon Harper	Battle Looms Over Military Health Care Reform Members of the Armed Services Committees are expected to make a push this year for military health care reform. But opposition from advocacy groups and lawmakers standing for reelection may stymie those efforts, analysts said.
National Defense September 2004 Sandra I. Erwin	Technical Skills Shortage Hurts Pentagon's Bottom Line Unless current trends change, decision makers at the Defense Department may one day find that they lack a strategy for how to keep critical military programs from spinning out of control.
InternetNews February 14, 2011	RIM's PlayBook Line Imperiled by Tethering? Research In Motion made some waves in the wireless sector when it announced that it would begin offering a tablet PC, dubbed the PlayBook, running on a new QNX-based mobile OS.