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News The US military has demoted and fined a soldier for publishing "classified" information on his personal blog, an Army spokesperson confirmed on Tuesday. Word of the soldier's situation has been traversing the blogosphere for weeks.
[03 Aug 2005]
News The family of a US Marine killed in Iraq was denied access to the soldier's Yahoo email account due to the company's policies, raising questions of whether businesses should balance privacy with special requests.
[24 Dec 2004]
Photo The Future Soldier event at London's National Army Museum blew open the UK's arsenal of the future. Cobham's Eagle close combat radio, shown here, uses state of the art technology to provide a full duplex networked radio designed to provide the...
[26 Mar 2008]
Photo The Mindsheet team's entry is centred around a radio-controlled buggy that is carried to battle on a soldier's back. It's small and compact, which would please any soldier saddled with the task of carrying it into the battlefield.
[06 May 2008]
News And while many of the technologies are bulky at the moment, similar technologies for individual troops could soon be on the horizon: "As these technologies progress they all progress towards miniaturisation and that's good for the dismounted...
[20 Oct 2005]
News He said: "How do you design and deploy tactical networks and mobile systems, tie in sensor and support systems and support the soldier? RFID tags and other tracking devices linked to coalition systems are one way that the risk of 'friendly fire...
[21 Sep 2006]
Photo The memory stick is still under development but the MoD envisages it will be incorporated into a soldier's dog-tag to make sure it doesn't get lost. It currently takes around 20 minutes to transfer a soldier's medical record between locations.
[02 Aug 2007]
whitepaper Army Program Executive Office Simulation, Training and Instrumentation (PEO STRI) provides lifecycle management of training, testing, and simulation solutions for soldier readiness. The U.S. PEO STRI PM Field Operations needed the ability to...
[14 Apr 2006]
whitepaper In Land Warrior, each soldier becomes a node in a wireless local area network (WLAN). The United States Army is designing and implementing a revolutionary advance in the combat power of individual infantrymen on the battlefield: Land Warrior.
[24 Jan 2006]
whitepaper Bluetooth has emerged as a viable COTS alternative for military applications involving low power wireless networks, including wireless sensor networks and personal area networks for the foot soldier. However, the reachability of Bluetooth networks...
[09 Aug 2005]
whitepaper The soldier's mission, as soldiers often phrase it, is "killing people and breaking things. The U.S.military is the most effective fighting force in human history; it is so effective, in fact, that some federal officials have come to see it as a...
[24 Jan 2005]
whitepaper They wanted to provide scientists and engineers with immediate access to the best high performance computing hardware and software expertise in the industry and create an IT environment that supports the objective of providing the soldier in...
[09 Apr 2005]
whitepaper Secondly the paper considers a field worker who might be a field scientist gathering data or a soldier in a battlefield scenario. Java is a particularly attractive development environment for smart mobile applications allowing for a considerably...
[23 Jun 2007]
Photo A UK army soldier tests out the surveillance system and range finder (SSARF). The Ministry of Defence has just signed a £30m contract with Thales UK to take charge of the devices, which have built-in GPS, thermal imaging and a 5km laser range finder.
[18 Feb 2008]
News Marconi, Thales Defence, BEA Systems and Raytheon are all in the running for an MoD project called Fist (Future Integrated Soldier Technology). Four IT firms are battling it out to win a defence contract understood to be worth £1bn.
[25 Feb 2002]
News agreed to give the family of a US Marine killed in Iraq access to the soldier's email. The internet firm has given the father of a US Marine killed in Iraq access to his late son's email but only after a court order obliged them do so.
[25 Apr 2005]
Photo A soldier operates one of the specialist vehicles that control the system. UK troops on the ground are to get an eye in the sky that will help save lives by reducing 'friendly fire' and the number of air attacks.
[03 Apr 2008]
News Vietnam Veterans of America said the National Gulf War Resource Center, Radiated Veterans of America, Citizen Soldier and Veterans for Peace are the other groups involved in the legal action. The US Department of Veterans Affairs has been hit with...
[07 Jun 2006]
News In one highlighted case, a 48-year-old former soldier and businessman, Nguyen Khac Toan was jailed for 12 years on espionage charges for sending information about farmer protests to overseas Vietnamese groups.
[28 Nov 2003]
News Manning claims to have had offers of work by the private sector but is happy to soldier on. An Army sergeant major has been awarded an MBE for his work in creating the British Army's website. Sergeant major Russell Manning has been in the Army...
[26 Nov 2001]
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