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National Defense February 2014 Lloyd McCoy	Military Services Snub Defense Information Systems Agency as Cloud Broker As the cloud broker for the Defense Department, so far, DISA appears to be on shaky ground.
National Defense June 2015 Lloyd McCoy	Navy IT Priorities Stress Security, Efficiency With the Navy projecting flat spending over the next few years, it will be looking to information technology to help meet its goals.
National Defense September 2012 Dan Parson	Pentagon Struggles to Integrate Smartphones, Create Mobile Workforce Pentagon officials got a lesson in what happens when their sluggish acquisition practices go up against the commercial market's swift innovation.
National Defense March 2013 Valerie Insinna	Defense Department to Wring Savings From Its Info-Tech Buys Although the Defense Department continues to pour funding into information technology initiatives, contractors may find the pool of money shrinking over the next five years.
National Defense May 2012 Teri Takai	Creating a More Agile Defense Department Info-Tech Enterprise Secretary of Defense Leon Panetta in January released guidance that outlines a plan for shaping U.S. defense strategy.
Military & Aerospace Electronics September 2009 John Keller	2010 DOD Budget Proposes Increases for Navy, DARPA Spending; Army Faces Big Cuts The U.S. Department of Defense is proposing modest increases in procurement and research for the U.S. Navy, yet the U.S. Air Force faces small reductions and the U.S. Army is facing cuts of more than 17 percent.
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 June 2013 Valerie Insinna	Defense Department Infrastructure Still Vulnerable to Cyber-Attacks, Critics Say The Defense Department knows how to fight a kinetic war with bullets, bombs and boots on the ground, but it is still figuring out what a cyberwar would look like and how it would be fought.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2010 John Keller	2011 DOD Budget Proposes Increases in Procurement, Cuts in Research, in Overall Stable Request The U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) is asking Congress for $708 billion in federal fiscal year 2011 to support the continuing wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John Keller	Defense Spending Set to Increase for Electronics and Electro-Optics Programs in 2007 Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense propose spending nearly $21.3 billion in fiscal year 2007 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence technologies.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2007 John Keller	DOD Electronics Spending to Drop Along with Overall Decline in Procurement Leaders of the DOD propose spending slightly more than $28.1 billion in fiscal year 2008 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence technologies, which would represent a 4% decrease from current-year levels.
National Defense June 2013 Tim Larkins	Threats and Opportunities Growing in Cybersecurity The federal government will spend about $10 billion on cybersecurity in fiscal year 2013. That number could grow to $13 billion in fiscal year 2014.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2008 John Keller	DOD Set to Boost Spending for Communications, Electronics, and Intelligence Leaders of the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) propose spending $29.16 billion in 2009 for procurement and research in communications, electronics, telecommunications, and intelligence (CET&I) technologies.
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.
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 January 2014 Yasmin Tadjdeh	Funding for Military Mobile Technology Flattens as Demand Rises Funding to incorporate smartphones and tablets in Defense Department offices and on battlefields has stagnated even as demand for devices is rising.
National Defense January 2016 Stephanie Meloni	Defense Department Assuming Growing Cyber Security Role The Defense Department sees cyber as a domain that spans air, land, sea and space, but it struggles with how to handle it as a war fighting domain to best protect the nation.
InternetNews May 1, 2009 Alex Goldman	Defense Industry Data Needs Its Own Defenses The U.S. military only recently began to coordinate cybersecurity with private companies.
National Defense April 2014 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Budget Sets Stage for Fight With Congress It initially appeared that the Defense Department's budget for fiscal year 2015 had at last offered some much needed breathing room for the military to prepare for leaner times. But it is now clear that the same challenges will continue into 2016.
National Defense November 2012 Lambeth & Rhodes	How to Manage the 'Cloud' for Greater Cost Savings In July, the Defense Department unveiled its ambitious new cloud computing strategy, which builds on a similar Obama administration strategy to address challenges, requirements and goals specific to Defense.
National Defense August 2015 Jon Harper	Market for Ground Robots Poised for a Turnaround The market for ground robots is set to expand as technology advancements give the machines greater utility on the battlefield and elsewhere, according to defense officials and industry experts.
Parameters Winter 2003/2004 Wilson, Gordon & Johnson	An Alternative Future Force: Building a Better Army The Army's transformation concept rests on a set of major assumptions that should be questioned. This article suggests an alternative pathway for preparing US ground forces to meet the challenges of the next several decades.
National Defense April 2015 Valerie Insinna	New SharePoint Tool Facilitates Data Transfer Between Military Networks Metalogix -- a Washington D.C.-based software company -- recently released a SharePoint tool that company officials believe can help reduce military personnel's need for removable storage devices while transferring data.
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.
National Defense June 2013 Dan Parsons	Spending on Army Aviation Rotorcraft to Start Downhill Slide After peaking in 2013, funding for Army aviation has begun a gradual descent that may last decades, according to analysts.
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.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2006 John Keller	DOD Budget Keeps Growing, Despite the Odds Top-ranking experts in government and industry have been warning of substantial impending cuts in defense spending for the past 18 months, yet when Pentagon leaders released their 2007 spending proposals, the numbers just kept on growing.
National Defense February 2012 Nathaniel H. Sledge Jr.	Pentagon Resource Wars: Why They Can't Be Avoided If Congress reduces the services' procurement top lines as expected, they will probably circle their wagons to protect planned or traditional programs.
National Defense March 2012 Lawrence P. Farrell Jr.	Budget Themes: Investments Leveled, Programs Slipped, Non-Performers Nixed A big portion of the discretionary spending reductions in President Obama's 2013 to 2017 funding request is in the defense budget.
National Defense June 2011 Sandra I. Erwin	Cries of 'Hollow Military' Stifle Rational Debate on Future Spending President Obama has called for $400 billion in Pentagon cuts over the next 12 years, and to some defense officials and lawmakers, this is just the opening salvo of a campaign to tear down the U.S. military.
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2009 John Keller	Finally, a DOD budget request; now Congress can get to work Congress is facing a defense budget proposal from the Obama Administration of $663.8 billion -- $533.8 billion in discretionary spending and $130 billion to pay for fighting the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
National Defense May 2007 Sandra I. Erwin	Comrades in Arms With Penchant for Bitter Rivalries Retired four-star general and West Point professor Barry McCaffrey marvels at the miracle of joint-service combat power.
National Defense March 2005 Sandra I. Erwin	Defense Review: Beltway Dogfighting at Its Best Military officials have, in recent weeks, been diligently articulating their thinking on how each service contributes to the overall national security strategy.
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.
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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 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 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 March 2008 Stew Magnuson	Goal of a `Network-Centric' Military Seems Distant Unblocking communications and data sharing barriers is necessary if the military will achieve its longtime goal of becoming a network-centric force.
Military & Aerospace Electronics March 2005 John Keller	The big defense cuts that didn't happen Many of the anticipated big cuts in the Pentagon's 2006 budget request have simply failed to materialize - yet. The U.S. Department of Defense budget request contains solid funding for electronics-rich programs such as the Air Force F/A-22 fighter-bomber, the Joint Strike Fighter, and the Army Future Combat System.
InternetNews February 4, 2010	Air Force Taps Big Blue for Cloud Project IBM will embark on a 10-month project with the Air Force to build a secure, high-level defense network in the cloud.
National Defense September 2006 Sandra I. Erwin	Reform Agenda Targets Acquisition Workforce The Pentagon's cadre of "professional shoppers" could see a wave of reforms in the coming years, as the Defense Department remains under unrelenting pressure to fix its buying practices.
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