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Special Report: Net-Centricity and Service-Oriented Architectures (Homeland Defense Journal)
We can’t know what the future’s going to look like. We have to be agile enough to be able to respond to that uncertainty. That agility is achieved through Net-Centricity — a network that gets information where it’s needed, when it’s needed,” said Linton Wells II, Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration.
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The European Dilemma - Communications Costs Versus Tactical Needs (MilSat Magazine)
The major European countries are committed to improving their satellite communications capabilities through both dedicated military and dual-use systems.
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Sizing the Teleport Market - The WTO Assessment (Sat Magazine)
According to a new study from the World Teleport Association (WTA), the past three years have been good ones for the global teleport sector, the ground-based side of the global satellite network.
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Integrating COTS Systems—A Worthy Effort (MilSat Magazine)
Over the last ten years, COTS (Commercial Off-the-Shelf) products have become increasingly popular within the satellite industry. “Better, faster, cheaper” was the mantra of the mid-90s—COTS products helped to address this mandate.
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Mass Transit Safety (Mass Transit Magazine)
How safe is your system? Do you only think about on-time performance? Perhaps it is time to measure both safety and timeliness.
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Logistics Modernization Improves Supply Chain (Mass Transit Magazine)
Metro Transit in the Twin Cities region has endured a hard 2007 with an upswing in crime and then the I-35 bridge collapsing. These are some of the struggles that come with running a transit agency.
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Software-Defined Radio - An Interview with Joe Mitola (SDR Forum)
At the SDR Forum Tech Conference in Denver, Portable Design interviewed Joe Mitola of Mitre Corp. Mitola is one of the originators of Software-Defined Radio and cognitive radio (CR).
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