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June 2008
Focus: Joint and Coalition Operations
It’s likely that no nation or military service ever again will fight a major war alone. Even small conflicts and non-warfighting operations will entail partnerships operating synergistically. For years, the technologically advanced U.S. military has been striving to ensure that its services interoperate. While that struggle continues, the United States and its allies are trying to get even more diverse systems to interoperate across a wide range of missions. SIGNAL Magazine’s June 2008 issue looks at the challenges and successes in efforts to attain true joint and coalition operations.
- The U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM) juggles new issues as it strives to improve joint and coalition interoperability.
- The United States and Japan are jointly coordinating command and control of their independent forces from a single site.
- JFCOM is designing a new approach to military operations that pulls together military and government agencies to establish regional stability.
Focus: Next Generation Technologies
They’ve been called disruptive, innovative, blue-sky and bleeding edge; but whatever way you look at them, next-generation technologies will define society. When Time Magazine named Albert Einstein the man of the 20th century, it was paying homage to how his theoretical breakthroughs laid the foundation for what proved to be a technology-driven century. Just the past 20 years alone have seen revolutionary advances in information technology that are redefining social, economic and political structures. These advances are likely to continue their revolutionary trend in new and unforeseen areas. SIGNAL’s June issue examines what may lie ahead in key research areas:
- Computing research promises to push back barriers and open the door to hitherto unimagined advances.
- New sensor technologies open up a new spectrum of capabilities and potential applications.
- Future breakthroughs may lead to more flexible communications with better bandwidth use and improved security.
- A prototype transistor radio developed by corporate and academic researchers is made with carbon nanotubes, and it may lead to new super-small electronics.
- Faster than light may become a reality as laboratory researchers slow the speed of the universe’s constant.
- The world’s largest software manufacturer is exploring new technologies to redefine the art of the possible.
Semaphore Series: Web 2.0
For the fifth and final part of SIGNAL’s five-part Semaphore Series on Web 2.0—tagged Web 2.0.5—the series looks at security issues that are emerging from this new Web age.
- Web 2.0.5: Social networking is proving to be hugely beneficial both to users and to cyberspace marauders operating for malice or profit.
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