CHIPS articles from April 2005

CHIPS archives from April 2005

Editor's notebook.
April 1, 2005... The construct of maritime dominance contains many elements, and it includes much more than situational awareness of the world's seaports and oceans. Beginning on page 6, Vice Adm. Harvey E. Johnson Jr., Adm. Timothy J. Keating, Vice Adm. John...

DON CIO: putting information to work for our people.(Department of the Navy)
April 1, 2005... We live in a networked world, and a networked Navy-Marine Corps team has become a reality. Information sharing with collaboration across command elements and national boundaries, coupled with increasing speed, accuracy and efficiency,...

Vice Admiral Harvey E. Johnson Jr. Commander, Coast Guard Pacific Area U.S. Maritime Defense Zone Pacific Regional Emergency Transportation Coordinator.(Interview)
April 1, 2005... Vice Admiral Harvey Johnson assumed the duties of Commander, Coast Guard Pacific Area in June 2004. The area of operations for the Pacific Area encompasses over 73 million miles west of the Rocky Mountains and throughout the Pacific Basin to...

USNorthCom.(United States Northern Command)
April 1, 2005... The Department of Defense established U.S. Northern Command in 2002 to consolidate, under a single unified command, existing missions that were previously executed by other military organizations. USNORTHCOM's mission is homeland defense and...

A spectrum fable: how AESOP and XML improve naval operations.
April 1, 2005... If you remember what it was like to be a preschooler, you'll recall Aesop's Fables, short stories with moral lessons passed down from ancient times. However, mention the word "AESOP" around the Naval Sea Systems Command (NAVSEA) these days and...

Enhancing awareness in the Maritime Domain: Maritime Domain Awareness is all about generating actionable intelligence, the cornerstone of successful counterterrorist and maritime and maritime law enforcement operations.
April 1, 2005... Introduction The challenges facing our Naval and Coast Guard forces have changed dramatically over the past decade and make the future security environment increasingly complicated and uncertain. This new environment, highlighted by the...

Interview with Dave Wennergren: Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer.(Interview)
April 1, 2005... Mentoring young professionals and guiding and inspiring the workforce is a top priority for the Navy-Marine Corps leadership team. In addition to technology certifications and academic degrees, CHIPS asked the DON CIO, Dave Wennergren, to talk...

Beyond Iraq.(United States' Navy services)
April 1, 2005... I'm going to give you a picture about what the U.S. Pacific Fleet is doing beyond Iraq and how we are getting transformation right. Keeping the direction the Chief of Naval Operations has given in mind, I would like to outline some of the...

Interview with Captain Kevin R. Hooley: Commanding Officer Center for Information Dominance.(Interview)
April 1, 2005... The merger between the Center for Information Technology (CIT), headquartered in San Diego, Calif., and the Center for Cryptology (CC) Corry Station, located in Pensacola, Fla., to form the Center for Information Dominance (CID) Corry Station,...

The DON IT Umbrella Program turns 17! The Umbrella Program fulfills the Navy's duties as ESI executive agent for office automation and resource planning: the Umbrella Program meets the objectives and requirements for the FORCEnet architecture.(Department of the Navy Information Technology )
April 1, 2005... We are just 17, if you know what I mean! That's right; the Department of the Navy Information Technology (DON IT) Umbrella Program celebrates 17 years of bringing substantial cost avoidance savings for DON and Department of Defense (DoD)...

MBGIE 2005: the joint and combined multi-battle group inport exercise achieves new level of excellence in wargaming simulation.
April 1, 2005... U.S. Navy and UK-coalition forces reached a new dimension in virtual wargaming around the globe when they replicated a composite warfighting scenario, Feb. 7-11, 2005, during the Joint and Combined Multi-Battle Group Inport Exercise (MBGIE)....

A design process for FORCEnet experimentation.(command and control system for the Navy and the Marine Corps)
April 1, 2005... FORCEnet is the core of Sea Power 21 and Naval Transformation, and it is the Navy and Marine Corps vehicle to make the CNO's vision of network-centric operations/warfare an operational reality. FORCEnet is the command and control pillar that...

The Naval Personal Development Command bringing human capital strategy to life: human capital strategy is all about putting the right Sailors in the right place at the right time ...
April 1, 2005... At the beginning of the year, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Vern Clark challenged Navy leaders in his 2005 Guidance to develop a Human Capital Strategy (HCS) that would provide the Navy with tools to remedy the imbalances in community manning...

FORCEnet Functional Concept ... the future of naval warfare.
April 1, 2005... Naval Network Warfare Command (NETWARCOM) is leading a revolution in the way the Navy and Marine Corps will fight and operate. As Navy's operational type commander for global C4 (command, control, computers and communications), naval networks,...

DON CIP: a comprehensive solution to improve cyber and physical security of DON critical assets.(Department of the Navy Critical Infrastructure Protection)
April 1, 2005... A primary goal of the Department of the Navy Information Management/Information Technology (IM/IT) Strategic Plan is "providing Full Dimensional Protection (FDP) that ensures Naval warfighting effectiveness." FDP involves three initiatives:...

Can you hear me now: transformational communications--the space segment: the stated goal of the Transformational Satellite communications system is to provide improved, survivable, jam-resistant, worldwide, secure and general purpose communications ...
April 1, 2005... DoD's Future Communication Architecture In the Jan-Mar 2005 edition of CHIPS, multiple aspects of the Department of Defense (DoD) planned Transformational Communications Architecture (TCA) were explored. This follow-on article focuses on...

Scuzzy and beyond Part II.
April 1, 2005... In the CHIPS Jan-Mar 2005 edition, we discussed the recent advances and evolution of the small computer system interface (SCSI) standard. You can view this article at http://www.chips.navy.mil/archives/05_jan/web_pages/ scuzzy.htm. In Part II,...

The lazy person's guide to internet hoaxes, myths and legends.
April 1, 2005... You are traveling through another dimension--a dimension of bits and bytes and information. It is a journey into a wondrous land whose boundaries are that of imagination and there is a signpost up ahead. Your next stop: the Internet Zone....

www.it-umbrella.navy.mil.
April 1, 2005... Enterprise Software Agreements Listed Below The Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI) is a Department of Defense (DoD) initiative to streamline the acquisition process and provide best-priced, standards-compliant information technology (IT)....