Friday, May 17, 2013
Fort George G. Meade, Md. - The Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) today announced approval of the Apple iOS 6 ...
Wednesday, May 1, 2013
Recent changes in Federal Communications Commission (FCC) regulations governing signal boosters enable the sale of certain ...
April-June 2013 Issue
Recognizing increasing end-user dependence on mobile devices, the Defense Department released a comprehensive enterprise ...
April-June 2013 Issue
We live in a radiant world. Natural cosmic and manmade radio waves flood the atmosphere around the world on a daily basis. ...
Wednesday, February 20, 2013
In the world of network cyber security, the weak link is often not the hardware or the software, but the user. Passwords are ...
Tuesday, January 29, 2013
Naval Education and Training Command (NETC) announced Dec. 28 that the commander of NETC visited the Center for Naval ...
Monday, January 28, 2013
ATLANTIC OCEAN (NNS) -- Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75) and personnel from the Navy ...
Friday, January 25, 2013
Semester exams are looming, with an extended holiday break on their heels. But before Dr. Andrea Thomaz closes the Socially ...
January-March 2013 Issue
The department of the Navy’s highly skilled electromagnetic spectrum professionals are more vital to the mission today than ...
Thursday, October 11, 2012
ARLINGTON, Va.-The Office of Naval Research (ONR) awarded contracts to Lockheed Martin and Aurora Flight Sciences on Sept. ...
October-December 2012 Issue
Today's unmanned vehicles can trace their roots back to the inventor of alternating current (AC),
Nikola Tesla (1856-1943). ...
July-September 2012 Issue
The final step in the dynamic federal agency spectrum access process within the United States is receiving a radio frequency ...
July-September 2012 Issue
The Department of the Navy Enterprise Mobility Integrated Product Team charter was signed by Terry Halvorsen,DON Chief ...
Friday, April 27, 2012
Sailors attached to Naval Computer and Telecommunications Area Master Station Atlantic (NCTAMS LANT) in Norfolk, Va., are ...
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Naval Surface Warfare Center Panama City Division (NSWC PCD) scientists and engineers have designed and developed an ...
Friday, April 13, 2012
The Joint Program Executive Office for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JPEO JTRS) announced April 10 that the ...
April-June 2012 Issue
Increasing the ability to conduct business on the go, away from a traditional office or desktop environment, can be a key ...
April-June 2012 Issue
Two years ago, Adm. Mike Mullen, former chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, called the national debt the greatest threat ...
April-June 2012 Issue
Riding an Atlas V rocket, the Mobile User Objective System-1 (MUOS-1) satellite lifted off at 5:15 p.m. EST, Feb. 24 from ...
April-June 2012 Issue
Bold Alligator 2012, the largest Navy/Marine Corps amphibious exercise in the past 10 years, tested the limits of naval ...
April-June 2012 Issue
The Software Communication Architecture (SCA) is an open-architecture specification that defines the interactions between ...
April-June 2012 Issue
From 2012 to 2015, the United States Navy and its partners, the U.S. Marine Corps and Coast Guard, will commemorate the ...
April-June 2012 Issue
Emerging technology has always compelled traditional spectrum management processes to adapt and evolve. The 2012 ...
January-March 2012 Issue
In today's efforts to identify and leverage all potential efficiency opportunities, one area often overlooked is a device ...
October-December 2011 Issue
The Department of the Navy anticipates that personnel will begin teleworking in significant numbers when a new telework ...
October-December 2011 Issue
The DoD CIO serves as the principal adviser to the Secretary of Defense for information management/information technology ...
October-December 2011 Issue
The electromagnetic spectrum is a unique resource. While in some ways it is similar to other resources, like oil or water, ...
July-September 2011 Issue
Vice Adm. Vitale, as Commander of Navy Installations Command (CNIC), is the commander for 11 regions and 72 naval bases ...
July-September 2011 Issue
Today's Soldiers and Marines struggle to gain instant and persistent access to essential situational awareness information, ...
July-September 2011 Issue
This is a very active year in the area of enterprise mobility. In the commercial marketplace, dozens of new devices, the ...
April-June 2011 Issue
The Department of Defense, through its various commands and programs, contracts a significant number of cellular ...
April-June 2011 Issue
Enterprise Business Model stimulates competition and increases innovation
The Joint Program Executive Office (JPEO) for ...
April-June 2011 Issue
The new Department of the Navy enterprise wireless multiple award contracts, covering commercial cellular providers, managed ...
April-June 2011 Issue
"Few technological developments hold as much potential to enhance America's economic competitiveness, create jobs, and ...
April-June 2011 Issue
To maximize total allowable bandwidth for deployment, USS Enterprise Strike Group staff, in collaboration with the flagship ...
January-March 2011 Issue
Most of the buzz in the mobility world these days is about apps, apps and more apps. The growth in the number and variety of ...
January-March 2011 Issue
Our atmosphere is filled with electromagnetic energy from many sources. These include manmade emissions from sensors and ...
January-March 2011 Issue
Collaborative Sites
The Navy has long had a requirement for units to share information at great distances to collaborate ...
October-December 2010 Issue
This summer the Army turned the normal software development cycle on its ear by issuing "Apps for the Army," the Army’s ...
October-December 2010 Issue
While it is axiomatic to say that the speed of technological change is breathtaking, the past year in particular has ...
July-September 2010 Issue
The earthquake in Haiti was undoubtedly a tremendous human tragedy, and for communicators, it represented an enormous ...
July-September 2010 Issue
Imagine a world without wireless devices: no radios, no televisions, no radar or satellite systems, no keyless car locks, ...
July-September 2010 Issue
This column typically extols the virtues of enterprise mobility by promoting technologies that enable the workforce to ...
April-June 2010 Issue
Not a week goes by without an inquiry to the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (DON CIO) or the Navy or ...
April-June 2010 Issue
When Charles H. Duell, Commissioner of the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, claimed in 1899 that: "Everything that can be ...
April-June 2010 Issue
The Joint Program Executive Office for the Joint Tactical Radio System (JPEO JTRS) has announced that the Multifunctional ...
April-June 2010 Issue
The growth and diversity of military unmanned aerial vehicles (UAV) in the first decade of the 21st century has been ...
January-March 2010 Issue
The electromagnetic spectrum is a critical enabler of the Department of the Navy's ability to communicate and operate in a ...
January-March 2010 Issue
The Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (DONCIO) represented the DON at the first International ...
January-March 2010 Issue
In this issue, we look at the many facets of managing the electromagnetic spectrum, more commonly known as the radio ...
January-March 2010 Issue
Multi-National Force-Iraq turned over responsibility for management of the high frequency radio band to the Government of ...
January-March 2010 Issue
Past CHIPS editions have addressed and focused on well-known information technology (IT) areas such as knowledge management ...
January-March 2010 Issue
For years now, Navy Marine Corps Intranet (NMCI) users have jealously eyed the laptop-wielding, Wi-Fi-connected masses in ...
January-March 2010 Issue
It can be embarrassing to attempt to predict technology beyond its current development horizon. This is especially ...
October-December 2009 Issue
JPEO JTRS teams with UCSD to develop Project 25 Waveform porting guidelines
Project marks a crucial step for JTRS radio ...
October-December 2009 Issue
Delivering a robust enterprise mobility capability to the Department of the Navy workforce requires leveraging various ...
July-September 2009 Issue
As cell phones and personal digital assistants (PDAs) become more technologically advanced, attackers are finding new ways ...
July-September 2009 Issue
The Secure Mobile Environment – Portable Electronic Device (SME PED) will soon be operational across the Navy Marine Corps ...
July-September 2009 Issue
Whether wireless voice, video or data, the number of wireless applications is increasing. Wireless capabilities can be as ...
April-June 2009 Issue
The Going Mobile series of articles began in the January – March 2009 issue of CHIPS. In it we discussed "Enterprise ...
January-March 2009 Issue
In April 2008, the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer (DON CIO) released a report called "Department of the ...
October-December 2008 Issue
Soft Power
The U.S. military has been performing humanitarian missions since the end of the Cold War, sometimes in a ...
October-December 2008 Issue
For many years, Navy ships pulling into port had to drape fiber optic "umbilical" cables over the side from the ship deck ...
July-September 2008 Issue
The following are selected paragraphs from the daily SITREPs that were submitted to key senior officers to provide feedback ...
July-September 2008 Issue
Regardless if military communication specialists are participating in their 14th Combined Endeavor communications ...
July-September 2008 Issue
Operations Coordination and Execution Lead Capt. Kevin Johnson, at Naval Network Warfare Command, recently announced the ...
July-September 2008 Issue
NSWC Dam Neck was selected to receive a $1.4 million grant from the Office of the Secretary of Defense to develop and ...
July-September 2008 Issue
Introduction
According to recent reports from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), solar flare ...
July-September 2008 Issue
Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center (SSC) Charleston's Ken A. Crawley was selected a Top Navy Engineer by the acting ...
April-June 2008 Issue
Stronger and improved security settings were implemented for all Navy Marine Corps Intranet BlackBerry devices in February. ...
July-September 2007 Issue
How many electronic devices do you own? Do you have an iPhone or Wii gaming system yet? Can you eat lunch without checking ...
July-September 2007 Issue
Introduction
Modernization and integration of shipboard voice communications systems are long overdue. This is true of ...
April-June 2007 Issue
On March 21, 2006, the Office of Naval Research approved a Rapid Technology Transition proposal from program office PMW 160 ...
January-March 2007 Issue
Increasingly, our lives, lifestyles, culture and economy depend on wireless devices. Wireless devices enable us to remotely ...
October-December 2006 Issue
A Naval Postgraduate School faculty, student and contractor team joined forces with 11 Navy Reservists from the Office of ...
July-September 2005 Issue
The sentries posted at the armory, the crews at the fire station, and the base security patrols in their squad cars all ...
July-September 2005 Issue
Background
Home and corporate users in ever-increasing numbers are using wireless networks based on the 802.11b, 802.11a, ...
July-September 2004 Issue
In the last two installments of the Lazy Person's Guide, we reviewed the history and development of analog and digital ...
July-September 2003 Issue
Last issue we completed our one-year, four-issue journey through a history of personal computing. Having stowed the Way Back ...
January-March 2003 Issue
Welcome back to the third in a series of articles reviewing the history of personal computing. In the summer issue of CHIPS, ...
January-March 2003 Issue
Introduction
U.S. involvement in East Timor is a success story of peacemaking and country-rebuilding. The United States ...
January-March 2003 Issue
Diann L. McCoy is the Principal Director for Applications Engineering. She is responsible for engineering information ...
April-June 2002 Issue
What are Personal Digital Assistants?
Personal Digital Assistants (PDAs) are compact devices used to help organize ...
January-March 2002 Issue
How many of us would allow complete strangers to walk into our homes and listen to our daily conversations? No one that I ...
July-September 2001 Issue
Michael Dell was a featured speaker at Connecting Technology (CT) Spring 2001. While visiting CT, Mr. Dell graciously ...
July-September 2001 Issue
You don't have to look very far in private industry to see that handheld computing devices Personal Digital Assistants ...
April-June 2001 Issue
CHIPS recently interviewed Dr. Cathy Allen regarding the security of financial transactions on the Internet. BITS was formed ...