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The president had requested a 23 billion dollar increase. But the Democratic plan would eliminate raises for most defense programs.
December 08, 2010 -
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Appointees, military, and career civilians interact inside Pentagon, but all have different worldviews, goals, and methods of meeting the mission.
December 07, 2010 -
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The Washington Post reports that a Navy intelligence officer is accused of leaking classified documents.
December 07, 2010 -
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The agencies sign a MOU to work more closely on research and development on new technologies to protect the financial services sector\'s critical infrastructure. This agreement follows a pilot DHS and DoD have been working on to share threat information.
December 07, 2010 -
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The Defense Department employs about 45,000 workers with disabilities, but needs to boost awareness of a program to support, hire and retain them says Stephen M. King. The DOD\'s director of disability programs joins us to tell us how he plans to do that.
December 07, 2010 -
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The Pentagon, even while looking for ways to trim the budget and reduce deficit pressure, tells contractors profit margins should stay intact. We get details from Jim McAleese.
December 07, 2010 -
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Carl Conetta, co-director of the Project on Defense Alternatives, discusses the Sustainable Defense Task Force\'s report on how to cut defense spending.
December 06, 2010 -
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The U.S. Army has awarded Oshkosh $255 million to build 250 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV) ambulances for Afghanistan.
December 06, 2010 -
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Computer networks and social networks depend on interaction between individuals -- whether it\'s individual machines or human beings. The science of these complex interactions shares some common underlying themes, and a team of Army researchers hopes that examining these networks will provide feasible solutions.
December 06, 2010 -
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Several of the most promising technological research projects at University System of Maryland-related labs are getting a strategic infusion of federal cash to help them through the most difficult phase of development, and toward the commercial market. Maryland\'s Jacques Gansler explains.
December 06, 2010 -
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MACE program taking commercial technology and modifying it to make it more secure and rugged. The Army is asking for vendor ideas on how to do this and what apps are possible in theater.
December 06, 2010 -
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Iran says nuclear issues are not even up for discussion when it meets major powers in Geneva on Today. So it\'s not clear how productive the first the first talks in a year will be. But even if Iran and the five permanent members of the U.N. Security Council plus Germany do agree to meet again, the process is expected to be long in terms of pomp and circumstance, but may be short on productivity. The United States is urging Iran to enter the talks in good faith and warned of more pressure and isolation if Tehran doesn\'t.
December 03, 2010 -
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The Army is developing technology for soldiers to use smart phones on the battlefield.
December 03, 2010 -
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The National Defense University has two primary campuses: North Campus in Washington, DC and the South Campus located in Norfolk, Va. But their students are all around the world, and thanks to the NDU iCollege, they don\'t miss out on anything, from guest speakers to special lectures. From U.S. DoD Combatant Commands (COCOMS) stationed around the world, and students from Hawaii to Sweden, the NDU iCollege\'s video teleconferencing capabilities allow NDU to share their resources and courses more broadly. Installed in July 2009, the NDU iCollege maintains a telepresence room equipped with a speaker lectern with interactive capabilities and 18 separate workstations with video teleconferencing screens. \"When we decided to purchase the system, it took several months to get approval and to work through security issues,\" Jolly Sienda, Outreach Professional at the NDU iCollege said. \"Now, we can see the benefits of video teleconferencing usage with our students and stakeholders.\" In the past year and a half, NDU iCollege has continued to incorporate their telepresence capabilities into various areas of the university, and seen the benefit not only to their mission, but also to their bottom line. \"For example, the capability of having a guest speaker from Washington, D.C., talk to students in Sweden without travel costs is a tremendous cost savings,\" Sienda said in an e-mail to Federal News Radio. \"We\'ve done this twice this year and we are planning other video teleconferences next year.\" It also allows the college to provide expert faculty speakers in off-site courses, Sienda said, without having to send faculty off campus. In early 2010, the college conducted meetings with academic partners in Singapore to plan a cybersecurity conference. Even basic coordination and planning between the university\'s two campuses is made easier. The NDU iCollege uses a Polycom RPX HD system, Sienda says, which further diminishes the sense of distance. \"When we are able to connect two teleconference systems, the result is very high quality, almost like you are together in person,\" Sienda said. The iCollege continues to find new uses for its telepresence room, most recently adding students in Hawaii. \"Our use of telepresence continues to grow as the adoption of the technology grows throughout the Federal government and particularly within the Department of Defense,\" Sienda said. \"This is a powerful tool for information sharing and networking with the college\'s students and stakeholders.\"
December 03, 2010
