CHIPS articles from September 2004

CHIPS archives from September 2004

Editor's notebook.(Editorial)
September 22, 2004... Your suggestions about the topics you would like to see us tackle in CHIPS are helpful in planning future issues. I want to share with you some comments from CHIPS reader, Al Kaniss from Naval Air Systems Command. "I enjoyed your article...

Don CIO: putting information to work for our people.(Department of the Navy, Chief Information Officer)
September 22, 2004... The ability to communicate is critical in all phases of our business. We are quickly becoming a society with diverse communication tools that include mobile phones, text messaging, instant messaging, voice mail, e-mail and of course--the...

Interview with Vice Adm. Patricia Ann Tracey Director, Navy Staff.(Interview)
September 22, 2004... Director, Navy Staff Mission To coordinate and synchronize the internal Navy Staff processes and actions of OPNAV Principal Officials in the execution of current Navy policies and priorities as established by the Chief of Naval Operations....

Interview with Vice Adm. James D. McArthur Jr. Commander Naval Network Warfare Command.(Interview)
September 22, 2004... NETWARCOM's Global Mission Naval Network Warfare Command creates warfighting and business options for the Fleet to fight and win in the information age. We deliver and operate a reliable, secure and battle-ready global network. We lead the...

Interview with Rear Adm. Michael Sharp SPAWAR Vice Commander ASN (RDA) Chief Engineer Acting DASN C41/Space.(Space & Naval Warfare Systems Command)(Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Research, Development and Acquisition, Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Navy)(Interview)
September 22, 2004... The goal sounds simple enough: Provide warfighters with battlespace information that is optimally relevant, timely, accurate and usable. In reality, however, creating the architecture to align myriad frequencies, protocols and systems--all the...

Identity theft.(protecting naval employees)
September 22, 2004... Identity theft occurs when a person illegally obtains another person's name; Social Security Number; bank or credit card account number; or other identifying information and uses it to commit fraud or another crime. Among other things, the...

Interview with Robert J. Carey DON Deputy CIO.(Department of the Navy)(Interview)
September 22, 2004... Mr. Robert J. Carey serves as the Department of the Navy Deputy Chief Information Officer for Policy and Integration. Reporting directly to the DON CIO, he is the principal adviser to the CIO. Mr. Carey is responsible for managing and leading...

DoD ESI's successful new approach for enterprise resource planning.(Department of Defense, Enterprise Software Initiative )
September 22, 2004... The Enterprise Software Initiative The Department of Defense (DoD) Enterprise Software Initiative (ESI) is a joint Defense Department project to leverage the buying power of the DoD for commercial information technology products and services....

NETCOM-the army's technology command: NETCOM Soldiers, civilians and contractors are found virtually everywhere around the globe to ensure that the Army's portion of the Global Information Grid is operational and secure.(Network Enterprise Technology Command)
September 22, 2004... With a mission similar to the Naval Network Warfare Command mission, the U.S. Army established the Network Enterprise Technology Command/9th Army Signal Command (NETCOM/9th ASC) in October 2002 as the sole authority to operate, manage and...

The Navy's transition to IPv6.(Internet Protocol version 4)
September 22, 2004... One of the more significant evolutions in the history of the Internet is upon us. Internet Protocol version 4 (IPv4), the standard upon which the Internet has operated for the last 20 years, is running out of addresses. Several work-arounds...

Climbing the knowledge management mountain lessons learned from operation blinding storm.(navl joing operations)
September 22, 2004... Introduction New collaborative tools and cross-domain technologies being introduced to the fleet are presenting knowledge managers with exciting opportunities and significant challenges. These tools are the means to achieve new levels of...

Information management sample toolkit operation blinding storm.(combined operations)
September 22, 2004... The following are the technologies we worked with in Operation Blinding Storm and our evaluation of their effectiveness. The first step in discerning the effectiveness of operational tools is to look at their capabilities and concepts. ...

Can you hear me now? The JCEOI-another facet of spectrum management.(Joint Communications Electronics Operating Instructions, United States armed forces)
September 22, 2004... To use a current phrase, "being on the same page," is not adequate for military communications. If your unit or aircraft is not on the correct frequency, with the correct call sign and encryption scheme, coordinated operations are in jeopardy...

Developing a Net-centric test and Integration process: horizontal fusion helps ensure data is available on the Global Information Grid (GIG) for those who need it ...
September 22, 2004... For the second year, the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Charleston (SPAWAR Charleston) is supporting the Office of the Deputy Chief Information Officer, Department of Defense, on the transformational horizontal fusion effort....

Speeding capability to warfighters Trident Warrior 04.(naval network equipment)
September 22, 2004... Trident Warrior 04 is the Navy's premier FORCEnet Sea Trial experiment... U.S. military services have made significant progress in networking weapons systems and sharing battlefield data during the last 10-15 years, but more work needs to...

No more band-aid fixes.(information technology security, navy)
September 22, 2004... When confronting a short-term need that calls for a fast fix to "stop the bleeding," many organizations have turned to the technological equivalent of a Band-Aid--a customized off-the-shelf solution. Like many well-known remedies, they offer...

The Department of the Navy issues XML Naming and Design Rules.(Extensible Markup Language)
September 22, 2004... The Department of the Navy (DON) has updated its initial guidance on the use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) by issuing new DON XML Naming and Design Rules (NDR). These rules require standardization of XML development and implementation...

Dice support joint interoperability testing, training and exercise transformation initiatives.(Department of Defense Interoperability Communications Exercise)
September 22, 2004... The Department of Defense (DoD) Interoperability Communications Exercise (DICE) is an annual training exercise, sponsored by U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) and conducted by the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) Joint Interoperability...

The lazy person's guide to grid computing.
September 22, 2004... I would like to state up front, that I wrote this article because I lost a bet. No money changed hands. The bet was just a gentleman's agreement with myself that I would have to do an article on the subject of the winner's choice if a military...

www.it-umbrella.navy.mil.(Department of Defense, Enterprise Software Initiative)
September 22, 2004... 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)....