To help make sense of the flow of information, even when connectivity is unstable, the Army is pursuing new ideas it hopes to implement in the combat theater.
One such effort is the Distributed Common Ground System-Army (DCGS-A), which serves as a single system for depositing sensor data and sharing intelligence, according to Col. Charles Wells, program manager for DCGS, program executive office-integrated warfare systems.
“This is for better analysis and increased communications,” Wells said today at the IDGA DOD and Government Cloud Computing Summit in Vienna, Va. Wells said DCGS-A will make use of cloud computing to “analyze all data, all the time.”
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Cyber Defense
The US military is preparing for 21st Century electronic warfare and cyber terrorism. A joint US Cyber Command and four service cyber commands have been set up.
Their mission is to defend American military networks and civilian American infrastructure from cyber terrorism and from foreign government hackers.
The officers leading these cyber commands explain how they are organized, how they operate, and how they will protect the United States from foreign military hackers, intelligence agencies, and cyber terrorists.
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