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Archive for October, 2009
Army fuses airborne sensor lab with ground networks — Defense Systems
At the Army’s C4ISR On-the-Move Event 2009 in September, Lockheed Martin Corp. demonstrated its new Airborne Multi-Intelligence Laboratory. The AML aircraft, a repurposed Gulfstream III corporate jet, was converted to a test platform for evaluating the integration of multiple intelligence-gathering sensors onboard a single aircraft. The flight team includes analysts who correlate the intelligence data [...]
Army demos electronic jammer for helicopters — Defense Systems
The Army’s Communications-Electronics Research, Development and Engineering Command CERDEC has demonstrated a new system that can be used both to locate electronic emitters on the battlefield — radios, remote-controlled improvised explosive devices, radars and other sources of electromagnetic radiation used by a potential adversary — and then jam them. The system, called Sledgehammer, “is a [...]
Cyber-overhaul – C4ISRJournal.com – Military Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance
U.S. defense officials are insisting that by reorganizing their cybersecurity strategy to give new powers to the director of the National Security Agency, they are not attempting a power grab. The military will continue to focus on protecting its own networks, they said, rather than expanding the military’s role to protecting civilian-run electrical and transportation [...]
X-band offers cure for congested spectrum — Defense Systems
Operations in Southwest Asia have created an insatiable demand for satellite communications capacity — a demand that commercial providers have largely filled. However, DOD has to compete for available capacity on commercial satellites with media and telecommunications companies and other high-volume satellite communications customers. One of those providers is Xtar, a joint venture of Loral Space [...]
Sturdy containers offer shelter from the storm for network equipment — Defense Systems
Making relatively small electronics rugged enough for use in extreme environments, such as the deserts of Iraq and mountains of Afghanistan, is a major challenge. But what if you need more than a laptop computer with you, perhaps a whole network operations center — from loading the equipment on a plane, truck or helicopter to [...]
Navy lays course for Second Fleet migration to NMCI — Defense Systems
The Navy Marine Corps Intranet is entering the last year of its contracted life. After 10 years, the network has become one of the most reliable and secure networks in the Defense Department after starting as a frequent target of ridicule for what some involved with the program characterize as justified complaints. As evidence of [...]
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- gallagherseanm: The Virgin Mobile MiFi plus Apple iPod Touch plus Skype equals unlimited data and calling without a contract. http://ow.ly/2yIyR
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- gallagherseanm: With another iOS upgrade coming from Apple in November to update the iPad, is it possible there'll be a new iPad by then too? I'm thinking.
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