“The days of the linear battlefield are long over with. In today’s asymmetrical environment, it’s probably more important than ever to know not only where the bad guys are, but where the friendlies are.”–Maj. Theo Kang, USA, assistant product manager to the Enhanced Night Vision Goggle (Optical)

For more about Maj. Kang, read the full article, available in this month’s SIGNAL Magazine, online now.

“There simply isn’t enough money for us to reinvent the wheel. If there is a capability out there that we can leverage, that certainly is what we want to do. We’re looking for industry partners that intuitively understand that in their DNA.”–Bob Poor, assistant program manager for the Distributed Common Ground System-Navy increment 1

Learn more about Poor and the DCGS-N in the full article, available in SIGNAL Magazine, online now.

“But at the end of the day, we have to learn to operate within the law and inside of the bureaucracy, while bringing a sense of urgency. In my mind, we need to change the risk calculus. You don’t build something to defeat IEDs the same way you build aircraft carriers.”–Gen. James E. Cartwright, USMC, vice chairman of the JSC

For more on the general, read the full article here in the current issue of SIGNAL Magazine, online now.

“We could barely make an incredibly flimsy model airplane fly four years ago—just enough to set a world record. Now we can build a tube-launched tactical airplane that can fly a military mission”–Richard J. Foch, a senior scientist with the NRL’s expendable vehicles department

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“For us, in the Navy, we come as we are [...] We’ll never have it exactly right, but what we have to be able to do is to put together the capabilities and the systems and the training that prepare our young men and women to cover the range of operations that they’re going to be asked to perform. We have to be able to do it in a way that they never are in a fair fight, that they always have overmatch.”–Adm. Gary Roughead, USN, chief of naval operations

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“It’s not like your wireless at home, where you plug it in and you’re good to go. There’s a bunch of additional things that we’re forced to do because we’re putting it in a hardened military environment.”–Robert Wolborsky, program manager with the U.S. Navy Tactical Networks Program Office, San Diego

Find out what he’s talking about here in the current issue of SIGNAL Magazine, online now.

“What we have today is scalable, so it’s allowing us to manage the growth that’s always involved in providing bandwidth. Because of that, we can truly migrate everything over IP. We can truly become a network-centric Army.”–Lt. Col. Joseph Dupont, USA, product manager, Defense Communications Systems–Europe

Find out what he’s talking about here in the current issue of SIGNAL Magazine, online now.

“The problem is our warfighters are digital natives. They understand the technology they could have and are looking at what they’re getting and they’re saying, ‘Hey, this isn’t good.’” — Timothy J. Harp, deputy assistant secretary of defense, command, control, communications, intelligence, surveillance, reconnaissance and information technology acquisition, OASD(NII)/DOD CIO

Find out what he’s talking about here in the current issue of SIGNAL Magazine, online now.

“People must accept that the Internet infrastructure is faulty and will remain so for the foreseeable future.” — Paul A. Strassman, distinguished professor of information science, George Mason University, and former director of defense information for the Office of the Secretary of Defense

Find out what he’s talking about here in the current issue of SIGNAL Magazine, available online.

“Those are the things that lead us to say that threats are growing…It is growing because of our behavior, the things we do every day.” — Richard Schaeffer, director of the NSA’s Information Assurance Directorate

What’s he talking about? Find out in the current issue of SIGNAL Magazine, online now.