As director of the Command, Control, Communication and Computer Systems Directorate at U.S. Joint Forces Command (JFCOM), the question of which technology will most impact this command is not easily answered. In our network-centric, global-reaching environment, technology will be the fulcrum around which success or failure will pivot. The level of measured success for the warfighter will depend directly on how evolving technologies are used to enable JFCOM's role within of the U.S. Defense Department as an organization where the military services, combatant commands, multinational partners, industry and other governmental agencies rely on each other in a truly interdependent relationship.

The role of networks in various environments was the topic of discussions

Better intelligence and information management are key elements of a NATO

Homeland defense initiatives and the global war on terrorism are reshaping

The defense community's annual transformation-focused meeting offered

The U.S. Defense Department has designed a road map that plots the objectives

The pace of fielding technology is increasing so quickly that testing, training and maintenance personnel

Multi-National Force-Iraq, plagued by problems with incompatible data sources

New data-fusing, Web-enabling technology that promises to bridge

The defense community is turning to new weapons to wage war