Raduege: Contractors, governments want standards
 Do you ever wish gas station pumps had standard controls or that when you traveled overseas you didn’t have to bring a set of plugs and power converters? That’s how Harry Raduege, chairman emeritus, of the Network Centric Operations Industry Consortium, described the wish of defense contractors and governments for electronic gear designed to interoperable regardless of who built it or where the gear is used.
“If we had things that worked the same, we’d all be happier,” Raduege told people attending the 7th Annual C4ISR Integration Conference: Technology & Decision Marking today in Arlington, Va.
Jouas: Air Force intelligence moving beyond signals
 Air Force intelligence concerns are moving beyond the long-standing signals intelligence mission, according to Brig. Gen. Jan-Marc Jouas, vice commander of the newly created Air Force Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance Agency.
The new agency and expanded mission grew out of the decision to bring Air Force ISR efforts under a single deputy chief of staff – the A2 in Air Force lingo. The organization that had been known as the Air Intelligence Agency and functioned as part of Air Combat Command is now the Air Force ISR Agency. In addition to the mission of analyzing information, the agency is expanding to take the lead in reconnaissance and surveillance missions.
Joint Staff sees no silver bullet in terror war
Tactical success in Iraq weakens al-Qaida, but the U.S. and its allies must redouble their efforts to separate the terrorist group from the Muslim mainstream all over the world, according to a Pentagon official helping to the plan the next phase of the war on terror.
While this may be considered a restatement of U.S. policy, its timing could provide an early indication that the Defense Department is beginning to consider dispersed operations following an inevitable drawdown of troop levels in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Killebrew: Developing narrative crucial to winning wars
 The U.S. and its allies must be focused on winning wars, not battles, said retired Army Col. Robert Killebrew, and the key to winning future wars will be developing a truth-based, winning narrative.
Killebrew, former deputy director of TRADOC’s Army After Next Project, and now a defense industry consultant, spoke Oct. 19 to defense industry and military representatives at the 7th Annual C4ISR Integration Conference: Technology and the Decision-Making Process in Arlington, Va.
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