Army

  • The Army is preparing to publish a new set of standards that will dictate what technology is allowed to operate on its network. Officials say the integrated network baseline will let the service do a better job of keeping up with the technology cycle by adopting, common, open standards, without dictating precisely what technologies they\'ll allow. The Army also plans to require any vendors who want to participate in its huge Network Integration Evaluation to comply with the baseline.

    October 31, 2011
  • The Air Force intends to migrate most of its localized and non-standardized IT networks into a single system known as AFNET by the end of next year. The migration should enable enterprise services across the Air Force, but who will host and operate those services over the long term remains undecided.

    October 31, 2011
  • Steven Gitlin, vice president of Aerovironment, which creates the backpackable drone — formally known as the Switchblade Agile Munition Systems — joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss how it works.

    October 28, 2011
  • For a progress report on how the military is combating the cyber threat and a look at the near term future, officials from the Army, Navy and Air Force cyber commands joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris for a special Federal News Radio panel discussion.

    October 26, 2011
  • Winslow Wheeler is the director at the Straus Military Reform Project for the Center for Defense Information.

    October 20, 2011
  • Davin Knolton, the assistant chief of staff at the Army Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, Kan., who created a system that searches for, finds and remediates classified information on unclassified systems, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss his idea.

    October 19, 2011
  • The Pentagon will soon announce winners of its latest round of grant funding to try out new energy technologies at its U.S. bases. The response from industry and other government agencies has been overwhelming, officials said.

    October 19, 2011
  • The Army says it could soon do away with the car decals that allow people through the security checkpoint when they drive on base.

    October 17, 2011
  • The Pentagon says the program costs too much to keep it going.

    October 14, 2011
  • The Army plans to release technical standards for its IT systems next year, in a process that leaders say will give greater predictability to industry. For the Army, the benefit will be an enterprise network that lets it quickly integrate new technologies as they come to market.

    October 13, 2011
  • In the face of suggestions that the military of the future will rely more on air and sea power than ground forces, Army leaders say such arguments were wrong in the past and are wrong now.

    October 11, 2011
  • When President Barack Obama awarded the nation\'s highest military honor, the Medal of Honor, to Army Ranger Sfc.Leroy Arthur Petry, he became only the second living, active-duty service member to receive the honor for actions in Iraq or Afghanistan.

    October 10, 2011
  • Retired Maj. Gen James Snyder, the assistant chief of the Army Reserves, discussed the challenges for reserves as they withdraw from Iraq and Afghanistan and return to civilian life. Snyder spoke from the Association of the U.S. Army 2011 conference.

    October 10, 2011
  • Army Chief of Staff Gen. Raymond Odierno discussed the Army\'s top priorities, including more efficient readiness for deployed troops at the Association of the U.S. Army 2011 conference.

    October 10, 2011