Return-Path: <sentto-279987-4902-1025097340-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com> Delivered-To: fc@all.net Received: from 204.181.12.215 [204.181.12.215] by localhost with POP3 (fetchmail-5.7.4) for fc@localhost (single-drop); Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:18:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: (qmail 25715 invoked by uid 510); 26 Jun 2002 13:15:31 -0000 Received: from n18.grp.scd.yahoo.com (66.218.66.73) by all.net with SMTP; 26 Jun 2002 13:15:31 -0000 X-eGroups-Return: sentto-279987-4902-1025097340-fc=all.net@returns.groups.yahoo.com Received: from [66.218.67.194] by n18.grp.scd.yahoo.com with NNFMP; 26 Jun 2002 13:15:40 -0000 X-Sender: fc@red.all.net X-Apparently-To: iwar@onelist.com Received: (EGP: mail-8_0_3_2); 26 Jun 2002 13:15:40 -0000 Received: (qmail 23076 invoked from network); 26 Jun 2002 13:15:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (66.218.66.217) by m12.grp.scd.yahoo.com with QMQP; 26 Jun 2002 13:15:39 -0000 Received: from unknown (HELO red.all.net) (12.232.72.152) by mta2.grp.scd.yahoo.com with SMTP; 26 Jun 2002 13:15:39 -0000 Received: (from fc@localhost) by red.all.net (8.11.2/8.11.2) id g5QDGoV14930 for iwar@onelist.com; Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:16:50 -0700 Message-Id: <200206261316.g5QDGoV14930@red.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 PL3] From: Fred Cohen <fc@all.net> X-Yahoo-Profile: fcallnet 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: Wed, 26 Jun 2002 06:16:50 -0700 (PDT) Subject: [iwar] [fc:US.DoD.Urged.To.Deploy.Available.Networks] Reply-To: iwar@yahoogroups.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=3.2 required=5.0 tests=RISK_FREE,FREE_MONEY,DIFFERENT_REPLY_TO version=2.20 X-Spam-Level: *** Jane's Defence Weekly June 26, 2002 US DoD Urged To Deploy Available Networks By Kim Burger, JDW Staff Reporter, Long Beach, California Industry officials are urging the US Department of Defense (DoD) to expedite deployment of communication network capabilities for the armed forces, saying the technologies exist to begin implementing them immediately. Defence contractors are touting their own proposals for interconnecting space, sea and land systems and have financial motives for encouraging the DoD's commitment. Boeing, for example, estimates the addressable market will grow to as much as $27 billion per year by 2011. However, officials said their interest in pushing the DoD to move forward in its vision for a network-centric force is rooted in the belief that significant improvements in battlefield communications and commanders' decision cycles can be achieved now by fielding even limited new capabilities. "We could put some transformational pathfinder capabilities that are ready today out there, and not wait for the whole solution," said Otto Guenther, a retired lieutenant-general and vice president and general manager of TRW Tactical Systems, speaking on 20 June at an Association of the US Army symposium. "Those are things we can do, and we need to do and we need not wait for the whole package to be completed." Capabilities that could be under way today include network-centred satellite communications; small laser communication relays to connect intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance capabilities and national assets; space-based radar and unmanned air vehicle networks for situational awareness on the ground, Guenther said. The technology exists for an interconnected, high-bandwidth communications capability to be built by the end of the decade, said Roger Roberts, vice president and general manager of Boeing's Integrated Defense Systems, on 18 June. Boeing has developed a concept involving interconnection and data exchange among the assets of all the US armed forces that it calls the 'integrated battlespace'. As well as laser communications and a mature fibre-optic network for high-speed data exchange, Boeing's concept includes a software programmable air/ground system that can route information around the network. Military satellite communications and airborne early-warning platforms are also critical to the capability. The company is pursuing its vision through programmes in the US Army, Navy and Air Force. Key to the idea is the construction of a network architecture consisting of standard communication protocols that would be applied to all systems in the network. "The idea is not to connect the dots," but to enable fast, complete information-sharing among systems, said Tom Gathman, manager of strategic planning and investments for Boeing Space and Communications. Boeing developed the architecture for the army's Future Combat Systems and proposed an identical architecture for the navy's DD-X programmes. The company is also eyeing the Multi-Sensor Command and Control programme and DoD intelligence modernisation efforts as other opportunities for expanding the project. Boeing and TRW are among the defence contractors involved in helping the DoD study a transformational communications system. Guenther said that while he could not discuss the classified details of the effort, he could say he was confident participants "have got it" that an architecture for space assets is needed, and that there is support for ensuring that situational-awareness data is made accessible to the individual warfighter on the ground. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Free $5 Love Reading Risk Free! http://us.click.yahoo.com/3PCXaC/PfREAA/Ey.GAA/kgFolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> ------------------ http://all.net/ Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
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