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Radar/EW
DARPA's Electronics Resurgence Initiative addresses eventual saturation of Moore's Law - Story
October 05, 2017
In an effort to address Moore's Law before engineers run out of time, Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA) officials recently launched the Electronics Resurgence Initiative (ERI). The initiative consists of six programs in which engineers from government, industry, and academia, will spend the next four years scrutinizing the three pillars of the program - materials and integration, circuit design, and systems architecture - to ensure that technological progress continues at the same rapid pace. Moore's Law - the prediction that the number of transistors in a dense integrated circuit doubles approximately every two years - has held true in the microelectronics world over the past five decades. Now, however, engineers realize that the fast clip of technological innovation will eventually outpace Moore's Law.
Comms
DoD establishes Joint Interagency to facilitate information sharing - News
September 15, 2015
SCHRIEVER AIR FORCE BASE, Colo. The Department of Defense with U.S. Strategic Command, Air Force Space Command, and the intelligence community will establish a Joint Interagency Combined Space Operations Center (JICSpOC) to be located at Schriever Air Force Base in Colorado Springs, Colorado. The goal of the center will be to create unity of effort and facilitate information sharing across national security space enterprise.
Cyber
DoD's new cyberstrategy includes academia partnering - Story
June 10, 2015
The U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) operates the world's largest network - a diffuse patchwork of thousands of networks - and, as you can imagine, it's a giant target for state-sponsored and other malicious cyberattackers. One of the biggest factors enabling cyberspace attacks is the fact that security simply wasn't factored in when the Internet was designed. It was intended to serve as an open system to allow scientists and researchers around the world to connect and share data quickly and easily, which it does, but at the same time it creates an Internet-security "Achilles' heel" that allows attackers to do the same.
Avionics
DoD, industry partners plan to lower the cost of 5th gen F-35s by 2019 - News
July 10, 2014
WASHINGTON. The Department of Defense (DoD) has announced an agreement to reduce the price of the F-35 Lightning II 5th generation fighter to the equivalent of the 4th generation fighters by 2019.
Comms
Local grids to be powered by DoD electric vehicles - News
January 11, 2013
WASHINGTON. The Department of Defense (DoD) has allocated $20 million for a fleet of electric vehicles capable of exporting their own power in continuing efforts to reduce dependence on fossil fuels. Beginning later this year, the DoD plans to begin leasing up to 500 modified electric vehicles that cost between $30,000 and $100,000 a piece for six locations, including Los Angeles Air Force Base.
Comms
Back on track: JTRS JPEO assures open SCA and coalition use - Story
September 19, 2008
Q&A with Dennis M. Bauman, JTRS JPEO
