CHIPS articles from July 2007

CHIPS archives from July 2007

Editor's notebook.
July 1, 2007... How many electronic devices do you own? Do you have an iPhone or Wii gaming system yet? Can you eat lunch without checking your Blackberry or run without your MP3 player? How many hours do you spend each day using electronic devices? I...

DON CIO: putting information to work for our people.
July 1, 2007... It is good to be back to take over the helm after my nine-month deployment. My selection as DON CIO came while I was still in Iraq, so I want to thank John Lussier, who stepped up as acting DON CIO, as well as the entire DON CIO team and...

Interview with Navy Reserve Lt. and Astronaut Jim Reilly.(Interview)
July 1, 2007... Navy Reservist and Astronaut Jim Reilly was flying high in his third space mission in June as part of the STS-117 crew of seven servicing the International Space Station. STS-117 was the 118th space shuttle flight, the 21st flight to the...

Astronaut and Navy Cmdr. Suni Williams sets the record straight--and long.
July 1, 2007... Call it a great leap forward for women in space. After six years of people, three of whom have been women, living in space aboard the International Space Station, the female time-in-space endurance record set 11 years ago has been broken....

Mission STS-117--a dazzling success: thirteen days in space--four spacewalks--5.8 million miles traveled--mission accomplished.
July 1, 2007... A late-February storm was no match for the hundreds of NASA and contractor employees who prepared Space Shuttle Atlantis for launch after the external tank was hit more than 2,000 times by hail during that storm. Although delayed for more than...

Interview with the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer Mr. Robert J. Carey.(Interview)
July 1, 2007... Mr. Robert J. Carey became the sixth Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer November 2006. Reporting directly to the Secretary of the Navy, he is the principal adviser to the Secretary in all matters related to the mandates of the...

Interview with Rear Admiral Charles E. Smith Vice Commander Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command.(Interview)
July 1, 2007... The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command is one of the Navy's five major acquisition commands, and is headquartered in San Diego, Calif. SPAWAR develops Navy, joint and coalition interoperability architectures, networks and systems and has a...

Warships ready for tasking.(Company overview)
July 1, 2007... To maintain U.S. Navy maritime supremacy around the globe and respond to a multitude of humanitarian, peacekeeping and operational missions, management of the surface fleet was reorganized under the Surface Warfare Enterprise, an effects-based...

Can you hear me now? The DON electromagnetic spectrum campaign plan.
July 1, 2007... The Navy and Marine Corps' role in the global war on terror requires the rapid development of new capabilities to defeat emerging threats from the enemy, and many of these capabilities make use of the electromagnetic spectrum (radio...

Noble Resolve--a coordinated, decisive response for critical mission planning.
July 1, 2007... The variety and number of domestic and military operational roles the Defense Department fulfills in today's uncertain environment require mission rehearsals with civil authorities and an astonishing number of government and non-government...

Q&A with David J. Ozolek, Executive Director Joint Futures Laboratory, U.S. Joint Forces Command.(Interview)
July 1, 2007... The Joint Futures Laboratory played a huge part in the success of Noble Resolve. Dave Ozolek, executive director for the lab, explained its importance and demonstrated the technologies used in the experiments for the media April 6 while Noble...

Transformation through Lean Six Sigma.(Department of Defense and Department of the Navy (DON) "Lean" organizations)
July 1, 2007... The Secretary of the Navy and Deputy Secretary of Defense place great importance on making the Department of Defense and Department of the Navy (DON) "Lean" organizations. To this end, the DON is committed to enterprise transformation and...

Shipboard voice services modernization and consolidation.
July 1, 2007... Introduction Modernization and integration of shipboard voice communications systems are long overdue. This is true of interior communications with a mixture of analog and digital telephone and general announcing and wireless systems. It...

Starling assumes command of NETWARCOM.(Naval Network Warfare Command)
July 1, 2007... Vice Adm. H. Denby Starling II relieved Vice Adm. James D. McArthur Jr. as commander of Naval Network Warfare Command (NETWARCOM) June 15 in a ceremony at Naval Amphibious Base Little Creek, Va. Commander U.S. Fleet Forces Command Adm. Gary...

Department of Navy wins prestigious NARA award: records management initiative recognized by the National Archives and Records Administration.(National Archives and Records Administration)
July 1, 2007... The Department of the Navy (DON) was selected by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) to receive one of five Archivist Achievement Awards for outstanding achievement in federal records management. The National Archives...

Q&A with Director Combined Endeavor 2007 Lt. Col. James Pugh.(Interview)
July 1, 2007... The breadth and scope of Combined Endeavor 007 is impressive--1,500 people from 42 countries spanning four continents and two international organizations--all linked by a secure network for interoperability testing between participants. ...

MEASURE IQ begins deployment to the fleet.(The Metrology Automated System for Uniform Recall and Reporting Interactive Query application)
July 1, 2007... "MIQ is a vast improvement in both the productivity and usability of the MEASURE and METCAL systems." --MIQ User The Metrology Automated System for Uniform Recall and Reporting (MEASURE) Interactive Query (IQ) application, developed by...

SPAWAR Systems Center New Orleans tapped to lead global distance support center help desk consolidation.(The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center)(Navy's Global Distance Support Center)
July 1, 2007... The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center New Orleans Customer Support Center is the largest help desk in terms of volume and number of service tickets resolved within the Navy's Global Distance Support Center (GDSC). The New Orleans center...

Mitigatin weather hazards.(Surface Combat Systems Center)
July 1, 2007... The Surface Combat Systems Center performs vital work focused on Program Executive Office Integrated Warfare Systems (IWS) program development, life cycle engineering, fleet operator and combat information center team training, and in-service...

NPC Web site reaches 20 million visits.
July 1, 2007... As of May 1, the Navy Personnel Command (NPC) Web site surpassed the 20 million visitor mark. Since October 2004 when the site first started serving customers, the site has reached numbers as high as 1.3 million visits per month with an average...

DON issues open source software guidance: Navy and Marine Corps, defense and federal agencies invited to participate in open source effort.
July 1, 2007... The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (DON CIO) signed a DON Open Source Software (OSS) Guidance Memorandum June 5, 2007. This memo provides guidance for all Navy and Marine Corps commands regarding the use of open source...

DISA's Telework design team wins award for Best New Telework Initiative.
July 1, 2007... The Defense Information Systems Agency's telework implementation and design team received the Best New Telework Initiative award from Telework Exchange, a telework advocacy organization. In December 2005, DISA replaced its existing telework...

USJFCOM signs CRADA with Microsoft Corporation.
July 1, 2007... U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) signed a CRADA, a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement, May 9 to explore ways to improve the command's Knowledge and Information Fusion Exchange (KnIFE) program. A CRADA is a legal agreement...

It's time for more discipline in commercial IT spending.
July 1, 2007... A recently married young lady asked her parents for money to build a new, single-family home. The parents asked some reasonable questions to determine if they could help and whether the daughter fully understood what she was getting into. In...

DON IM and IT conference in Virginia Beach is a resounding success.(Department of the Navy Information Management and Information Technology Conference)(Conference news)
July 1, 2007... More than 700 attendees participated in the Department of the Navy Information Management and Information Technology Conference June 18-21, at the Virginia Beach Convention Center where they received the latest information on key IM and IT...

SSC Charleston team works on MRAPS.
July 1, 2007... Since July 2005, the Space and Naval Systems Center Charleston has equipped more than 2,000 up-armored Humvees with a variety of special command, control, communications, computers and intelligence (C4I) equipment that will help save...

Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration 2007: the CWID Senior Management Group is looking for all multinational information sharing solutions to be built on a foundation that is net-centric, secure, scalable and bandwidth sensitive.
July 1, 2007... Coalition Warrior Interoperability Demonstration 2007 is "an engine for discovering solutions for U.S. military, coalition and agency C4ISR challenges." CWID, a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff series of technology tests, allows U.S....

Communications key to Talisman Saber 2007 success.(Exercise Talisman Sabre 2007)
July 1, 2007... "Communication is the essence of C4I," said Information Specialist 1st Class (SW) Anthony D. Pierce, referring to command, control, communications, computers and intelligence. It is also the keystone of an all-encompassing nerve center...

The lazy person's guide to meetings and presentations.
July 1, 2007... We have all been there--seated around a large table in a conference room with printed copies of the speaker's slides--36 pages of densely packed text and complex graphics, with some details so small you can barely make them out --with no hope...

Enterprise Software agreements listed below.(Company overview)
July 1, 2007... 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). The ESI is a business discipline used to...