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DoD’s new mobile device plan looks to get more phones, tablets to troops
The Pentagon unveiled a new plan that would give it greater control over the smartphone and tablet usage of U.S. military personnel with the aim of getting more of these devices in servicemembers’...
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Army Eyes Samsung smartphones
The U.S. Army this year plans to begin buying Samsung Galaxy Note II smartphones for some infantry soldiers, pending approval from the Defense Department, according to a program office. Exactly how...
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Pentagon Approves Use of Apple iPhones, iPads
The U.S. Defense Department has released a security guide for smart phones and tablet computers made by Apple Inc., setting the stage for their wider use on military networks. The Pentagon’s Defense...
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Army Network Tests Drive New Tactics: Officials
The U.S. Army’s semi-annual network tests at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., are spurring soldiers to adopt new tactics for the battlefield, officials said. The so-called Network Integration...
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Raytheon Touts Internet-Wired Strykers
As the U.S. Army decides how many new radios to buy for its ground vehicles, Raytheon Co. wants the service to know that its existing system in Strykers already offers Internet-like connectivity. The...
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Marines Get Help with Data Overload
The Office of Naval Research recently equipped Marines in Hawaii with special technology to help them sift through loads of data to find only the information they need for the battlefield. ONR...
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U.S. Military Begins Testing ‘Smart’ Rifles
LAS VEGAS — The U.S. military has begun testing several so-called smart rifles made by the applied technology start-up TrackingPoint Inc., company officials said. The Army is rumored to have acquired...
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BlackBerry Still Dominates Pentagon Pockets
The Pentagon can’t break their CrackBerry habit. Once the smartphone of choice, most of the nation and even most federal workers have stopped using BlackeBerries as their work phones years ago. But the...
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Tablet Translator Will Enter Testing Next Year
The military expects to introduce a tablet protype of its combat translation system by the end of the year, officials said Wednesday. Troops have depended on translators in Iraq and Afghanistan for the...
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New Software Lets Sailors Use Navy-Issued Phones for Personal Use
The Navy has green lighted a plan that allows sailors to stop carrying their work and personal phones. Navy leaders authorized mobile software for Defense Department-issued phones that will separate a...
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Paint-On Antennas Take Off
The military would like to use blimps as eyes — and cell towers — in the sky. But, for the plan to really work, the antennas attached to those airships have to be light, flexible, and fit perfectly on...
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Hez Hack Mystery Unfolds
Back in September, Newsday sparked a furious debate when it reported that Hezbollah had hacked into Israel’s best-protected radios. At stake was more than that security of Israeli communications;...
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Prez’s New Top-Secret Net
The Pentagon’s IT geeks are putting together plans for a new White House “top-secret network and multimedia Crisis Management System (CMS) designed to operate in a wide range of fixed locations, on Air...
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An FCS Bridge to the Cold War
The future is now. Or maybe a year to 18 months from now. That’s about how long it would take L3 Communications to prep and demonstrate extending Future Combat Systems capabilities to the Army’s Cold...
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New Ears Coming for Joes
The Joint Program Executive Office Joint Tactical Radio Systems (JPEO-JTRS) is developing the Rifleman Radio as part of an effort to bring secure, networking capabilities to the intra-squad level. The...
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Steve Jobs’ Influence on the Military
Apple founder Steve Jobs, the Bay Area-bred Buddhist, tech mogul and non-conformist who died yesterday, may not be the first person you associate with the military — he even issued the famous quote...
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Army Smartphones on Way to Afghanistan
So, the Army’s 75th Ranger Regiment is bringing what was supposed to be the military’s version of a smartphone to Afghanistan. Yup, the software-based JTRS AN/PRC-154 Rifleman Radio and the...
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What DoD’s New Strategy Means for Post-9/11 Tech
Here are some interesting technology-related quotes that Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter and Vice Chairman of the joint Chiefs, Adm. James Winnefeld just said about the Pentagon’s defense...
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Report: Chinese PLA Access 80% of “World’s Communications”
China has found a backdoor to access 80 percent of the “world’s communications” to include information passed through the internet and sensitive infrastructure databases, writes a former senior...
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GD’s Newest Defense Against Cyber Attack
General Dynamics C4 Systems has a new encryptor device to help military or government personnel protect their data from cyber attack. The new TACLANE-1G (KG-175G) encryptor is now certified by the...
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