VIP Interviews


Justice touts open source for the Army

Army Maj. Gen. Nickolas Justice presides over a diverse group of Command, Control and Communications-Tactical programs. He talks with Defense Systems about his portfolio and about open-source technology, for which he has been a proponent.

WIN-T ushers in new dawn for battlefield communications

Army Col. William Hoppe oversees the WIN-T program, which was established to provide high-bandwidth, mobile, two-way satellite communications and ad hoc mesh radio connectivity to battlefield commanders.

DISA's path to enterprise services begins with e-mail

Defense Information Systems Agency officials think the path to ubiquitous network support for warfighters is in cloud computing.

The third collaboration button

Defense Information Systems Agency officials are laying the groundwork to develop a third collaboration platform that will incorporate and advance the most successful features of existing collaboration tools.

Growing need for spectrum brings new challenges

New tools only partly address sweeping spectrum demand.

Lt. Gen. William Shelton

Interview: Lt. Gen. William Shelton

The Air Force’s CIO and warfighting integration chief discusses the essential role of space in combat operations.

Robert Carey

Interview: Robert Carey

Navy CIO charts course for NGEN, CANES.

Interview: John Grimes

The assistant secretary of Defense for networks and information integration and Defense Department chief information officer talks about the transition to a new administration and what's left to do on his watch.

General Chilton

The right stuff for cyber warfare

In a press meeting at the LandWarNet 2008 conference in August, Gen. Kevin Chilton, Air Force commander of the Strategic Command, spoke about the structure of U.S. cyber operations and his priorities for the workforce and technology.

Interview with Gary Winkler

Gary Winkler, the program executive officer for enterprise information systems, offers his insight on Army initiatives that seek to improve support functions, global communications and online learning.

Webcast

  • Improving Performance Management and Project Control to Meet Cost/Schedule Milestones in DoD Procurement

    It can be nearly impossible to build annual budgets that consider forecasted project and program work plans along with detailed cost data, particularly when attempting to reconcile actual and projected program costs with actual schedule performance. In this webcast, a defense IT program manager will share best practices and hard-won lessons aligning critical data on project performance, cost systems and schedules for truly big picture program management insight. Read more