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The Role Of Geographic Information Systems On The Electronic Battlefield
White Papers This white paper outlines how GIS can support a military commander's ability to quickly understand the terrain, overcome organizational challenges, and support decision making processes with spatial information by embracing digital geographic...
[September 8, 2003, 0:00]
Teaching Cost Management To Students Of Engineering: Lessons From A Different Battlefield
White Papers The authors believe Activity-Based Costing/Management (ABC/M) is needed and powerful. Many years of professional and academic work have taught the author a few things, including the notion that managerial decisions and controls must be firmly...
[August 10, 2006, 0:00]
Military Tests RFID To Solve Friendly Fire Problem
News Earlier this month Nato's Operation Urgent Quest exercise tested the potential of a number of combat identity systems under battlefield conditions on Salisbury Plain, with 800 troops, 94 combat vehicles and nine aircraft putting a series of...
[October 20, 2005, 13:55]
Sun Case Study: U.S. Army
White Papers Designing and maintaining a mobile command post so that it functions under sometimes-chaotic battlefield conditions is a unique challenge. The two companies were recently awarded a contract to utilize Sun's Jini technology in a dot-com solution...
[November 2, 2005, 23:00]
Army Gets High Tech With New Battlelab
News It is part of the £300m Joint Effects Tactical Targeting System (JETTS) software project, which aims to provide commanders with swifter and more efficient control of their assets in the battlefield. Lord Bach, minister for defence procurement, said...
[October 29, 2004, 15:49]
Tech Shortcomings Endanger Troops
News Friendly-fire deaths during the 2003 Iraq war have shown just how important it is to ensure that the fire power of our forces on the battlefield is directed at the enemy — and not at our own servicemen and women or at civilians.
[May 2, 2007, 10:55]
Photos: MoD Unveils £80m IT Health Programme
News Pictured is a mock-up of an aid post which the MoD would deploy on a battlefield. After 2008, a version of the system will be available in field hospitals, on board ships and on the battlefield via laptops and other portable equipment.
[August 2, 2007, 16:30]
Very Nice, But...
Talkback A great big expensive white elephant - while very nice to have it will not be of any practical use on the battlefield and not necessary at a Regimental Aid Post. While full medical records may be of (dubious) value at rear/base medical facilities...
[August 6, 2007, 9:29]
Routing Using Messengers In Sparse And Disconnected Mobile Sensor Networks
White Papers Sparse mobile sensor networks, such as those in the applications of ecology forest and modern battlefield, can frequently disconnect. Unfortunately, most existing routing protocols in mobile wireless networks mainly address connected networks...
[July 20, 2007, 0:00]
Modeling The Wireless Network Architecture Of Land Warrior
White Papers The United States Army is designing and implementing a revolutionary advance in the combat power of individual infantrymen on the battlefield: Land Warrior. In Land Warrior, each soldier becomes a node in a wireless local area network (WLAN).
[January 24, 2006, 23:00]
Game Server Flaw Poses Attack Threat
News In an advisory posted to the company's Web site, security consultancy PivX Solutions stated that popular multiplayer games that have servers supporting the GameSpy network -- such as "Quake 3: Arena," "Unreal Tournament 2003" and "Battlefield 1942...
[January 20, 2003, 7:23]
Defense Acquisitions: Steps Needed To Ensure Interoperability Of Systems That Process Intelligence Data
White Papers DOD relies on a broad array of intelligence systems to study the battlefield and identify and hit enemy targets. These systems include reconnaissance aircraft, satellites, and ground-surface stations that receive, analyze, and disseminate...
[January 11, 2005, 23:00]
GameShadow Automates PC Game Patches
Talkback Popular games such as Battlefield 1942 from Electronic Arts informs the user when a new patch is available and ready to download currently. This is really nothing new! Games in the past have also had an update option, such as the extremely popular...
[August 6, 2003, 13:41]
Achieving Real-Time Target Tracking Using Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers Target tracking systems, consisting of thousands of low-cost sensor nodes, have been used in many application domains such as battlefield surveillance, wildlife monitoring and border security. These applications need to meet certain real-time...
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
SIGF: A Family Of Configurable, Secure Routing Protocols For Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers As sensor networks are deployed in adversarial environments and used for critical applications such as battlefield surveillance and medical monitoring, security weaknesses become a big concern. The severe resource constraints of WSNs give rise to...
[August 10, 2007, 0:00]
Enhancing Base Station Security In Wireless Sensor Networks
White Papers Wireless sensor networks that are deployed in applications such as battlefield monitoring and home sentry systems face acute security concerns, including eavesdropping, forgery of sensor data, denial of service attacks, and the physical compromise...
[August 1, 2007, 0:00]
Heterogeneously Integrated Chem/Bio Sensor In An Adaptive Network
White Papers An extremely robust, reconfigurable wireless network of integrated sensors capable of sensitive detection while limiting false positives to an absolute minimum is being developed for a variety of environmental, terrorist, and battlefield conditions.
[February 23, 2005, 23:00]
Forging America's New Normalcy: Securing Our Homeland, Preserving Our Liberty
White Papers In households and communities, in State capitols and the nation's capitol, in the workrooms and boardrooms of businesses, and on the battlefield, America seeks its destiny in the post-9/11 era. This paper is delivered by the urgency that America...
[February 7, 2005, 23:00]
Message Ferrying: Proactive Routing In Highly-Partitioned Wireless Ad Hoc Networks
White Papers A number of examples are in battlefield, disaster recovery and wide area surveillance. An ad hoc network allows devices with wireless interfaces to communicate with each other without any preinstalled infrastructure.
[August 25, 2007, 0:00]
Three Organizations Rely On Jini Network Technology
White Papers From the battlefield to the boardroom, kitchen to car, Sun's Jini technology is changing lives - and saving them - around the world. The ability to communicate with anyone, anytime, anywhere is no longer just an idea.
[November 2, 2005, 23:00]
