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The Defense Department is planning a pilot study to determine the feasibility of a bring-your-own-device program within the department, says Terry Halvorsen, acting chief information officer.

Massive tents housed booths with roughly 400 companies pitching the up-and-coming technology to approximately 8,000 attendees at the 2014 Modern Day Marine event held at U.S. Marine Corps Base Quantico in Virginia. Much of the technology focused on equipping expeditionary forces.

DARPA, the U.S. Defense Departments' primary research branch, is putting together teams of experts to embark on remarkable technology to make advanced arm prosthetics even more lifelike for amputees—technology that experts hope will send signals to the brain to indicate what the limb is actually feeling.

Having a single agency act as the cloud broker for the whole of the U.S. Defense Department's migration to commercial cloud services slowed the process too much, prompting a policy change to divvy up the duties among the services, says the department's acting chief information officer.

Brig. Gen. Dennis S. McKean, USA, has been assigned as commandant, U.S. Army Armor School, U.S.

Brig. Gen. Terrence J. McKenrick, USA, has been assigned as deputy commanding general, 1st Armored Division, Fort Bliss, Texas.

Brig. Gen. John C. Thomson III, USA, has been assigned as commandant of cadets, U.S. Military Academy, West Point, New York.

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Maj. Gen. William J.