Return-Path: <sentto-279987-2598-1002026681-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.1.0) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Tue, 02 Oct 2001 05:48:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 12310 invoked by uid 510); 2 Oct 2001 12:44:48 -0000 Received: from n35.groups.yahoo.com (216.115.96.85) by 204.181.12.215 with SMTP; 2 Oct 2001 12:44:48 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-2598-1002026681-fc=all.net@returns.onelist.com Received: from [10.1.1.222] by n35.groups.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 02 Oct 2001 12:44:41 -0000 X-Sender: fc@big.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-7_4_1); 2 Oct 2001 12:44:41 -0000 Received: (qmail 19651 invoked from network); 2 Oct 2001 12:44:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (10.1.10.142) by 10.1.1.222 with QMQP; 2 Oct 2001 12:44:40 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO big.all.net) (65.0.156.78) by mta3 with SMTP; 2 Oct 2001 12:44:35 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by big.all.net (8.9.3/8.7.3) id FAA02988 for iwar@onelist.com; Tue, 2 Oct 2001 05:44:13 -0700 Message-Id: <200110021244.FAA02988@big.all.net> To: iwar@onelist.com (Information Warfare Mailing List) Organization: I'm not allowed to say X-Mailer: don't even ask X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> Mailing-List: list iwar@yahoogroups.com; contact iwar-owner@yahoogroups.com Delivered-To: mailing list iwar@yahoogroups.com Precedence: bulk List-Unsubscribe: <mailto:iwar-unsubscribe@yahoogroups.com> Date: Tue, 2 Oct 2001 05:44:12 -0700 (PDT) Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Subject: [iwar] [fc:War.on.the.Technical.Front] Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit War on the Technical Front By Christine Chudnow, Computer Technology Review, 10/1/2001 http://www.wwpi.com/lead_stories/09_26_01/navy.html Back in 1997, the Department of the Navy launched Information Technology in the 21st Century. IT-21 is a strategy to fundamentally transform the way the Navy plans and budgets for IT acquisition, shifting from a centralized, large-scale system approach to fast personal computers and appliances, along with advanced data networks and high-speed satellite communications links. The Navy identified its key enabler as "smart-sourcing," or the selective outsourcing of the underlying IT infrastructure -- the IT infrastructure being viewed as an electronic commodity with warfare and warfare-support overlays. Corporate America may use military analogies in business, but the Navy does the real thing. The initiative includes extensive use of web technology, seamless ashore/afloat transfer of voice, video, and data information, TCP/IP-based client-server environment with multi-level security, embracing of industry standards and open architectures, and merging of tactical and non-tactical data on a common infrastructure. The goal is to enable military personnel to exchange classified and unclassified, tactical and non-tactical information from a single device, shorten timelines, and increase combat power. According to the Navy, the result is a shift from attrition-based warfare to speed of command, which flattens the hierarchy, puts decision makers in parallel with shooters, and transforms warfare from a step function to a continuous process. Sustainable situational awareness results in fewer questions, clarity of mission and commander's intent, and no ambiguity. On-scene commanders can be empowered with the ability to simultaneously plan and execute. A recent deployment happened onboard the U.S.S. McFaul, based out of Norfolk, Va.. The McFaul, a guided missile destroyer, is one of the Navy's newest ships in the Atlantic Fleet. Along with an extremely sophisticated weapons system, the Navy has outfitted the McFaul with a full suite of IT-21 capabilities to test mobile and wireless computing technologies on board. Working with IT-21 guidelines, the McFaul needed to produce efficient shipboard communication, assignments and schedules, all with an eye to simulating instantaneous communication and orders in a combat situation. The Navy centered its project around the ubiquitous Palm Pilot, and equipped 30 officers with the handheld devices, which they used both as PDAs and data sharing devices. After the project's initial success, the Navy decided to expand the program to the enlisted personnel. It needed to expand its LAN interfaces from limited desktop connections, and chose Aether's ScoutWare wireless networking product along with infrared wireless communications ports from Clarinet that allowed the sailors to upload and download from the LAN, including its central databases. It also contains e-mail capability. The Navy plans to continue testing the devices and possibly expanding the program to the rest of the fleet in 2002. Of course, with military action being imminent, the program may get a wartime christening much sooner than most might have wished. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Get your FREE VeriSign guide to security solutions for your web site: encrypting transactions, securing intranets, and more! http://us.click.yahoo.com/UnN2wB/m5_CAA/yigFAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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