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AFCEA Leadership Five Questions

The Five Questions series features senior leaders of military, government and industry as they share their philosophy on leadership and the techniques that have worked for them. This episode features Kevin Green, vice president, defense and intelligence at IBM Federal.

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Digital Source Book

This year, in addition to the print edition of the AFCEA Source Book, AFCEA members can purchase a digital download of the entire issue in pdf format The digital edition enables you to browse through the corporate profiles of AFCEA corporate members as you would the paper magazine. It is a stand-alone product in PDF format, and is not included in digital subscriptions to SIGNAL Magazine. Each purchase of the digital edition qualifies for three separate downloads of the PDF.

Online Exclusives

Improving Intelligence Interoperability
The U.S. Defense Department is continually improving one of its major intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance collection and distribution systems to improve interoperability among the military services and coalition allies and to make the information more readily available, increasing situational awareness on the battlefield.
The Evolving, Ever-present Cybersecurity Threat
The cyberthreat to the natural gas infrastructure is just a brushstroke in a bigger picture of an ongoing and evolving cybersecurity threat to the government and the nation, according to Greg Wilshusen, director of information security issues with the Government Accountability Office.
Joint Information Enterprise Rocks
The U.S. Defense Department's Joint Information Enterprise (JIE) will be built on "five big rocks," according to the assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Vice Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., USN, told the audience at the AFCEA NOVA Naval IT Day that big rocks must serve as the foundation so that little rocks can be implemented atop them.
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DISA:
The sun never sets on the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), especially with regard to its efforts to network the warfighter. The agency has been providing the means for the military to advance its communications and information systems to the point where individual warfighters are about to become nodes in the network. Today, DISA faces a host of challenges as it addresses new military communications requirements amid an information technology revolution.

FUTURE WARFIGHTING:
The past decade has seen one of the most significant shifts in warfighting doctrine and technology. The wars in Afghanistan and Iraq that followed the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks were the stages for new types of warfare that now proved their worth on the battlefield. Modern technology-based militaries can expect to find themselves facing adversaries that adopt their own means of defining the arena of war. Similarly, conventional forces are gearing up to take advantage of new capabilities to deter or counter future aggressors.

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