CHIPS articles from January 2006

CHIPS archives from January 2006

Editor's notebook.
January 1, 2006... The theme for this issue of CHIPS has more to do with people than technology--a huge shift in focus for the Navy's information technology magazine. Recently, Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mike Mullen said that technology should be incidental...

Strategic plan and excellence awards showcase DON IM and IT successes.(DON CIO: Putting information to work for our people)
January 1, 2006... The Department of the Navy has embraced a culture of transformation that is evident in the Department's many successes over the last year. Some of these successes are summarized in the new DON Information Management (IM) and Information...

Admiral John B. Nathman commander, U.S. Fleet Forces Command commander, U.S. Atlantic Fleet.(interview )(Interview)
January 1, 2006... The challenges of the last few months with the continuing global war on terror, and rescue and relief operations on the Gulf Coast and in Pakistan have shown that Navy capabilities are versatile and agile. In view of the Navy's superb response,...

Interview with Rear Admiral Kenneth William Deutsch Chief of Naval Operations, Net-Centric Warfare Division (N71).(Interview)
January 1, 2006... CNO N71 provides Navy Space and Electronic Warfare Leadership, Vision, Policy and Resources in support of Naval, Joint and Combined Operating Forces. As the resource sponsor for Trident warrior 2005 (TWOS), the Navy's annual FORCEnet Sea Trial...

Interview with Capt. Sinclair M. Harris commodore amphibious squadron four: commodore Harris talks about COMPHIBRON Four and the 24th MEU and their role in Trident Warrior 2005.(Interview)
January 1, 2006... Commander, Amphibious Squadron Four is responsible for the tactical employment of the ships from the Iwo Jima Strike Group. Under Commander, Second Fleet these ships participated in TW05: USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7), USS Nashville (LPD 13), USS...

Interview with Canadian Navy Cmdr. Paul Dempsey commanding officer HMCS Montreal.(Interview)
January 1, 2006... Trident Warrior 2005 (TWOS) provided an exciting opportunity to talk with members of the AUSCANNZUKUS (Australia, Canada, New Zealand, United Kingdom and United States) alliance, including the Commanding Officer of HMCS Montreal, Cmdr. Paul...

Interview with Rear Admiral Victor See Jr.: director, communications systems acquisition and operations directorate, national reconnaissance office commander, space and naval warfare systems command space field activity program executive officer for space systems.(Interview)
January 1, 2006... CHIPS: I know that you are triple-hatted, can you talk about your work? Rear Adm. See: The first job that I have is Communications Director here at the National Reconnaissance Office. In that role I lead the acquisition and operations of...

Find your role, do your part: Navy ships provide vital humanitarian assistance to hurricane ravaged areas.
January 1, 2006... The humanitarian assistance and disaster relief efforts in New Orleans and the Gulf Coast carried out by USS Iwo Jima (LHD 7) and her sister ships USS Tortuga (LSD 46), USS Shreveport (LPD 12), USS Bataan (LHD 5) and USS Whidbey Island (LSD 41)...

Interview with Captain Fred Mingo: Commanding Officer SPAWAR Systems Center New Orleans.(Interview)
January 1, 2006... In the CHIPS Oct-Dec 2005 edition, we reported that the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) New Orleans was closed due to damage caused by Hurricanes Katrina and Rita. But we were wrong because only the SSC New Orleans buildings were...

DON CIP 101--maintaining mission assurance through effective critical infrastructure protection.(Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer)
January 1, 2006... In 1999, the Department of the Nary Chief Information Officer (DON CIO) assumed the collateral duties of the DON Critical Infrastructure Assurance Officer (CLAO) and has developed products and tools to support cuarfighter mission assurance. ...

TFNF still assisting navy families.(Task Force Navy Family)
January 1, 2006... Nearly four months after Hurricane Katrina came ashore along the U.S. Gulf Coast, Task Force Navy Family (TFNF) continues to provide assistance to active-duty, Reserve, Department of the Navy (DON) civilians and retirees recovering from the...

Carrier strike group twelve sponsors fleet/joint/coalition testing of open standards chat tool.
January 1, 2006... Commander, Carrier Strike Group (COMCARSTRKGRU) Twelve initiated and executed a successful combined fleet, joint and coalition test for an open standards chat capability over the NIPRNET Oct. 19, 2005. Group Twelve secured the participation...

Cryptographic log-on ... coming soon.
January 1, 2006... Cryptographic log-on (CLO) is a process that uses the Common Access Card (CAC) and embedded Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) certificates to authenticate a user's-identification to a workstation and network. It replaces the username and...

Multi-user ECP automated review system.
January 1, 2006... "Our office saved $250,000 in paper costs in the first year of using MEARS." --William F. Moeller Patriot Missile Configuration Manager "MEARS has reduced our ECP creation and review process from 75 days to 10 days." --Angela D....

The office of Naval Research and the Naval Research Laboratory experimentation in underwater acoustic communications research: U.S. Navy and Air Force reservists integrated seamlessly in at-sea experiments in the past year on board NRL research vessels.
January 1, 2006... Underwater digital acoustic communications (Acomms) with added networking capability is one of the leading research programs at the Naval Research Laboratory (NRL)--one that supports advances in the Sea Basing concept of the Navy's Sea Power 21...

USMC plan for information technology management.
January 1, 2006... Background Responsibility and authority over all aspects of information technology (IT), including requirements definitions, procurement and governance, are influenced by an organization's traditions and business processes. Certainly...

Life in and around the Green Zone.
January 1, 2006... Supporting the active duty force in the global war on terror are an unprecedented number of government civilian and contractor personnel. They are subject to many of the same hazards and hardships as their active duty comrades... In late...

FORCEnet Engineering Conference: June 6--8, 2006 Norfolk, Va.(Brief article)
January 1, 2006... FORCEnet's architectural construct will transcend organizational boundaries and will integrate the widest possible collection of joint and coalition platforms, weapons and combat and control systems. Developing FORCEnet will require...

Leveraging biomedical knowledge to enhance homeland defense, submarine medicine and warfighter performance at Naval Submarine Medical Research Laboratory.
January 1, 2006... NSMRL on the Frontlines of the GWOT A Coast Guard Maritime Security and Safety Team, acting on a tip from a law enforcement agency, stakes out the water around a nuclear power plant. Suddenly, the Integrated Anti-Swimmer System detects a...

Unlicensed radio frequency devices.
January 1, 2006... Unlicensed devices are a category of equipment that does not require a license from the Federal Communications Commission or a frequency assignment from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration. They offer great...

The lazy person's guide to controlling technologies part III: mastering the desktop.
January 1, 2006... We spend hours every day staring at a window that has evolved over the last 30 years from a low resolution, text-based interface to a complex graphical interface. Though this dates me a bit, I can remember when going from 40-character to...

www.it-umbrella.navy.mil.(Enterprise software agreements)
January 1, 2006... 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...