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  1. Letter to the Editor: Training Changes Can Fix Drone Mistakes

    I finished reading your November/December editorial about drone operations [“Fix drone operations”].

    • Jan. 30, 2012

  2. Commentary: Blueprint for Security

    Government agencies and corporations have historically managed their data under a centralized approach of fixed data centers and backup sites. The problem with this strategy is that the world is increasingly decentralized, with large organizations conducting their work at numerous sites around the world.

    • Jan. 30, 2012

  3. Editorial: Say ‘No’ To Tunnel Vision

    The U.S. is taking a bold and risky gamble by publicly naming a specific region as the locus for its decision-making about which overseas facilities to retain, which weapons and intelligence equipment to buy, and where to focus intelligence collections.

    • Jan. 27, 2012

  4. Commentary: Trust Takes Time

    While there is widespread agreement among U.S. defense and intelligence officials regarding the cost benefits, there is disagreement about whether a cloud system can be secure enough to handle the nation’s most sensitive information. A lack of common understanding of cloud computing and how it is deployed and used may contribute to these concerns.

    • Jan. 27, 2012

  5. Notebook: Electronics Supplier Mercury Buys KOR, Paragon

    Mercury Computer Systems, which makes sensor electronics for aircraft and ground vehicles, has purchased KOR Electronics and its subsidiary Paragon Dynamics in a move meant to help Mercury squeeze more processing power into its electronics.

    • Jan. 27, 2012

  6. U.S. Military, Industry Seek Ways To Fly Unmanned Planes Amid Civil Air Traffic

    A few U.S. companies are developing optionally piloted aircraft in the realization that it could be many years before unmanned planes are smart enough to replicate the ability of a human pilot to sense other air traffic and avoid it, a capability the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration is insisting upon before treating unmanned aircraft like traditional planes.

    • Jan. 27, 2012

  7. Notebook: DoD To Loosen Restrictions on Wireless Devices

    The Pentagon plans to overhaul the way troops handle classified material and official data, a move intended to clear the way for more widespread use of smartphones, tablets and wireless technology.

    • Jan. 26, 2012

  8. Notebook: Australia Gets Backpack-Size Robots

    QinetiQ has delivered a first batch of Dragon Runner 20 (DR20) small unmanned ground vehicles (UGVs) to the Australian Army under its five-year, indefinite-delivery, indefinite-quantity contract.

    • Jan. 25, 2012

  9. Libya Lessons: NATO Hears Calls for Better C2, More Targeting Experts

    NATO’s seven months of airstrikes and intelligence gathering over Libya helped defeat the forces of Moammar Gadhafi. But Operation Unified Protector also underscored the alliance’s reliance on American ISR planes and highlighted shortcomings in its standing command-and-control and target-analysis capabilities, interviews with participants in the operation show.

    • Jan. 25, 2012

  10. Notebook: French Lawmakers Battle over UAV Pick

    PARIS — The French lower-house National Assembly is supporting a government decision to in December rejected a Senate amendment calling for France to buy the General Atomics Reaper unmanned aircraft and supported supports a government decision to buy Heron TP unmanned aircraft rather than from Dassault Aviation and Israel Aerospace Industries (IAI) U.S.-built Reapers.

    • Jan. 25, 2012

  11. Notebook: Canada Rethinks Intel Strategy

    OTTAWA — The Royal Canadian Air Force has launched a review of its intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance needs as it tries to determine the right combination of unmanned planes, maritime patrol aircraft and satellites.

    • Jan. 25, 2012

  12. Interview: Col. Elmar Tamm, Director, NATO Cooperative Cyber Defence Center of Excellence

    Estonian Army Col. Ilmar Tamm is nearing the end of his term as the first director of NATO’s 3-year-old cyber think tank. It was a role for which Tamm, a signals expert, appeared destined. The small Baltic nation with the outsized economy was looking to carve a niche for itself within NATO in 2004 when Tamm and colleagues proposed creating a center to study cyber issues.

    • Jan. 24, 2012

  13. Notebook: U.S. Air Force To Test Jet Version of Predator

    The U.S. wants to send faster versions of the Predator planes to Afghanistan urgently, and it has announced plans to purchase a jet-powered Predator C Avenger for testing in the United States.

    • Jan. 24, 2012

  14. Notebook: Navy Delays NGEN Proposal Request

    The U.S. Navy will delay release of the final request for proposals (RfP) for the Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) by about a month, but does not expect the delay to affect the overall schedule, which calls for awarding a contract or contracts in December.

    • Jan. 23, 2012

  15. Technology: Modernizing Close-Air Support

    Through what look like ordinary sunglasses, a U.S. airman traveling with an Army platoon sees a truck off in the distance. Superimposed over the truck is a translucent dome showing the expected fragmentation pattern, or “splash,” from a 500-pound laser-guided bomb. In a corner of the glasses, the airman watches live full-motion video of the target and its surroundings. Icons show him the locations of available strike aircraft and their munitions.

    • Jan. 23, 2012

  16. Notebook: Israel Takes on Cyber Defense

    TEL AVIV — Israel will increase its annual cyber defense spending by 50 percent to support a program to protect security networks and critical industry and commercial entities from cyber attack.

    • Jan. 23, 2012

  17. Cover Story: Hacking Cases Draw Attention To Satcom Vulnerabilities

    The revelation that two U.S. environmental satellites were hacked in 2007 and 2008 grabbed the attention of commercial satellite communications providers, who have been urging the U.S. military to buy even more civilian bandwidth and use commercial satellites as hosts for military communications payloads.

    • Jan. 23, 2012

  18. Embedded Computing Company Explains New Organization

    The decision by executives at Curtiss-Wright Controls to create a new Defense Solutions group came after customers voiced concerns over duplicative work at two of the company’s business units, one of the company’s executives said.

    • Jan. 9, 2012

  19. C4ISR Conference: Panelists debate disclosure of cyber intelligence

    Two cyber experts who are about to become colleagues at the U.S. Department of Homeland disagreed about the role of classified government threat information in helping the private sector secure the nation's critical network infrastructure.

    • Nov. 1, 2011

  20. C4ISR Conference: Lawmaker calls for ‘Goldwater-Nichols' for UAVs

    Rep. C.A. Dutch Ruppersberger, D-Md., the ranking member of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, wants to see sweeping changes to how the U.S. military owns and operates its vast fleet of unmanned aircraft.

    • Nov. 1, 2011

  21. C4ISR Conference: U.S. National Security Agency warms to smartphones

    The U.S. Army is teaming with the nation's top-level digital security agencies to establish a secure wireless network for troops equipped with smartphones on the battlefield.

    • Nov. 1, 2011

  22. C4ISR Conference: House intel chairman vows to fight cuts

    The House's top intelligence leader criticized administration plans for large reductions in intelligence funding, saying such cuts would cripple America's ability to stay competitive on a global field.

    • Nov. 1, 2011

  23. Clarification

    An article in the October issue, "Mapping goes mobile," should have provided context for a quotation by retired Navy Capt. Eric Patten, now director of defense and intelligence global solutions at Esri. When Patten said, "A map with a bullet in it is still a map," he was describing the resistance sometimes faced by digital mapping advocates, rather than a view with which he agrees.

    • Nov. 1, 2011

  24. Securing the cloud

    U.S. intelligence officials are starting to field tough security questions about their proposal to overhaul the community's intelligence storage and analysis process to focus on cloud computing. The questions are coming as much from the community's own ranks as from Congress.

    • Nov. 1, 2011

  25. Voice for balance

    Lt. Gen. Larry James oversees the U.S. Air Force's intelligence apparatus, which includes a variety of aircraft, ground-based processing nodes and a corps of 20,000 officers, enlisted personnel and civilians.

    • Nov. 1, 2011

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