Defense Operations Blog

Marine Corps CIO sees the need for more mobile information technology and better data processing and acquisition processes.

High-security Wi-Fi for classified military operations is now available, thanks to improvements in hardware, software and policy.

U.S. Army introduces an online multiplayer game that allows soldiers to design the future battlespace.

“They’re going to hit us and hit us and hit us, and the only way we’ll be able to survive and to operate through that is to start expanding the level of  training and the experience that we have operating with degraded systems or sometimes no systems at all.” —Lt. Gen. Mark Bowman, USA (Ret.), former director of command, control, communications and computers/cyber for the Joint Staff

PEO IEW&S seeks enhanced sensors that do not overload the networks and electronic warfare systems that adapt with the threat.

Future battlefields may include robots, AI, quantum computing and driverless convoys, as well as cyber and other game-changing capabilities.

Organizations operating in tactical environments require infrastructure that goes beyond the walls of the data center.

The networked force that defines military superiority makes interoperability for coalition operations more than important then ever.

As with all the military services, the U.S. Army wants to improve its communications-electronics systems to keep up with emerging innovations. But it also faces a looming problem as more systems are plagued by creeping obsolescence.