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Photo The Defence Medical Information Capability Programme (DMICP) system is being rolled out to all UK Army medical facilities. Jonathan Cox, clinical policy officer for the Army Primary Healthcare Service, said searching for such patterns is not... [02 Aug 2007]
U.S. Army Command Speeds Access to Five Years of Critical Command Data With Network Appliance, Overtone Software, and FCN Solution
White Paper Army's Military Surface Deployment and Distribution Command (SDDC) operates global ports and manages the movement of troops and equipment to meet national security objectives in peace and war. The U.S. [30 Jun 2007]
British Army to storm Apple HQ?
News And given his track record of launching military campaigns the team even wondered whether Hoon might resort to extreme measures to mete out justice to Apple. silicon.com is proud to announce the latest edition of its popular Weekly Round-Up podcast... [18 May 2007]
Ex-Military Officers Launch Own Cisco Academy
White Paper As a consequence of Bulgaria's military reforms and plans, the country is downsizing its army by over 60% (from 107,000 to 40,000) over a five-year period. Those who lose their jobs as a result face an uncertain future on leaving the army, since... [13 Apr 2007]
Satellite to get the army talking
News The UK military's communications options will receive a boost with the launch of the first Skynet satellite - due to go live in the coming weeks. Astrium's CEO, François Auque, said the launch heralds a new era in secure military communications for... [12 Mar 2007]
Geographic Resources Analysis Support System (GRASS): More Than a Mapping Tool
White Paper Army Construction Engineering Research Laboratory as land management support software for military installations, GRASS has evolved into a powerful, multipurpose GIS for geospatial data management, analysis, modeling, and visualization. [17 Oct 2006]
Battlefield tech under UK and US spotlight
News The UK's Ministry of Defence (MoD) and the US Army are to work together on a $135.8m joint research programme to develop advanced secure wireless and sensor network technology, including RFID, to support soldiers in the battlefield in future... [21 Sep 2006]
Thales gets claws into £50m Falcon deal
News Thales has picked up a deal worth more than £50m to kit out the army's new IT system. Thales has won the contract from BAE, which earlier secured the deal with the British army to supply the first phase of its £200m Falcon communications network. [21 Aug 2006]
Boeing zeros in on Linux for military aircraft
News Boeing has awarded Wind River Systems a contract to embed its version of Linux into a new military aircraft, the company plans to announce Monday along with a new batch of products built around the open source operating system. [31 Jul 2006]
US Army to RFID tag medical documents
News 3M has won a $3.7m, three-year contract with the US Army to RFID tag medical documents. M will also develop the software for the tagging project and train military staff in how to use the system. The company will design and build a system to chip... [27 Jul 2006]
Nasa hacker's extradition gets Reid's rubber-stamp
News McKinnon was accused of one of the biggest military hacks ever, when he hacked into a series of sites belonging to the US Air Force, Army, Department of Defense and, most famously, Nasa. Gary McKinnon, the so-called 'Nasa hacker', is to be... [07 Jul 2006]
Revolutionizing Military Supply Chains and Shipping Ammunition at the Blue Grass Army Depot
White Paper The Blue Grass Army Depot (BGAD) is responsible for shipping hundreds of containers per day to support various levels of armed conflict. Since 1980's, the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) began using linear bar codes to identify ammunition being... [16 Jun 2006]
Adobe Systems Case Study: Australian Army
White Paper Nowhere is this more evident than in the Australian Army's Training Command, which is using Macromedia technology and sophisticated instructional design principles to produce efficient and effective eLearning to train thousands of full- and part... [13 Jun 2006]
US hacker gets five years in the slammer
News An army of compromised machines sitting in suburbia, whose owners are oblivious to the risk, can be hijacked to distribute malware, spam or launch crippling attacks via their broadband connections. Among the machines infected by Ancheta were... [09 May 2006]
Military unveils £200m next-generation comms network
News One of the networks which will eventually be replaced by Falcon is the army's Ptarmigan, a system which consists of trunk switches connected by satellite and multi-channel radio relay links that provides voice, data, telegraph and fax communications. [31 Mar 2006]
