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RSS NATOMilitary Messaging Over Low Bandwidth Networks
White Paper The two military specifications which have evolved to deal with such a messaging environment are the CCEB (Combined Communications-Electronics Board - AU, CA, NZ, US, UK) developed ACP 142 and NATO's STANAG 4406 Annex E. [07 Jan 2008]
Replication for Tactical Directory
White Paper This international core specification is used as the basis for national and NATO directories. Directory is an important component of Tactical Military operations. This paper looks at requirements for Tactical Directory,... [07 Jan 2008]
MoD boosts battlefield comms
News Falcon works with other MoD comms systems such as Skynet 5 and is compatible with Nato systems. The Ministry of Defence (MoD) has signed a £45m contract extension with BAE Systems Insyte to extend the supply of the... [28 Sep 2007]
SAP Arms the NATO Maintenance and Supply Agency for Success
White Paper For more than 50 years, the North Atlantic Treaty Organization NATO) has played an indispensable role in safeguarding the transatlantic community. But with forces from 26 nations participating in the frequently complex... [14 Sep 2007]
MoD slammed over friendly fire tech
News Nato's Operation Urgent Quest exercise (see photos here) tested a number of combat identification technologies - including the millimetre-based BCIS technology and RFID tags - in 2005 under battlefield conditions with... [01 May 2007]
Top 10: The best, worst... and craziest uses of RFID
News Last year Nato's Operation Urgent Quest exercise tested the potential of a number of combat identity systems under battlefield conditions. Children: Japanese authorities decided to start chipping schoolchildren in one... [30 Nov 2006]
Can SMEs compete for government contracts?
News Reflex Magnetics is a small IT security company that has just won a contract with Nato, and has been working with the DTI, the MoD and the RAF for years. The government is aiming to give smaller companies a better shot... [29 Jun 2006]
Leader: Military tech trial has lessons for the private sector
Leader As deployments of multinational forces become the standard way of dealing with conflict, Nato has realised it is vital that forces from different member countries can communicate and recognise friend from foe. [20 Oct 2005]
Photos: Technology fights 'friendly fire'
Photo Nato forces have been testing a range of combat identification technologies on Salisbury Plain. This M1 Abrams tank forms part of the US forces used in the Nato "Urgent Quest" exercise. Above, a... [20 Oct 2005]
Army tests RFID to beat 'friendly fire'
News Earlier this month Nato's Operation Urgent Quest exercise (see pictures here) tested the potential of a number of combat identity systems under battlefield conditions on Salisbury Plain, with 800 troops, 94 combat... [20 Oct 2005]
Moneybookers chooses The Bunker for data security
News To improve security, the company moved its resilience hardware to The Bunker, an electromagnetic pulse-proof data centre based in a former-RAF and NATO building. Electronic payments service Moneybookers has bolstered its... [05 Aug 2005]
BT CEO: "Cannibalise yourself"
News Of these, Verwaayen singled out deals with the European Central Bank and NATO as showing its IP-centric approach also means cast-iron security. Fresh from BT celebrating its five millionth wholesale broadband customer,... [05 Apr 2005]
Clearswift seals NATO deal
News UK content security company Clearswift has won a major military contract to provide messaging gateways for the NATO Messaging System (NMS). The deal, which could run for five-and-a-half years, dependent upon a successful... [10 Jan 2005]
Personal air traveller data - it's not yours any more
News The European Council then played on the supposedly "pro-Nato" stance of the new countries to have joined the EU on 1 May, by trying to convince the 162 new MEPs who took up seats in the European Parliament. [19 May 2004]
NATO's security system to fight off hackers
News NATO is to beef up protection of its networks against hackers and viruses as part of a new contract with BT to enhance its Computer Incident Response Capability (CIRC) system. The contract will see NATO... [18 Mar 2004]
