Networking expert challenges info offers to take charge
 Chief information officers should aggressively manage information, not just infrastructure, a retired U.S. Air Force general considered one of the nation’s top experts on defense networking said today.
Speaking at the 6th annual C4ISR Integration conference in Arlington, Va., Lt. Gen. Harry Raduege (ret.) said their goal should be a concept he called “ubiquitous access to information,” in which any authorized person” should have access to the Global Information Grid anywhere in the world.
Pentagon focuses on networks availability and data delivery
 The Pentagon is expanding its focus from building the transport layer for the military's networks to emphasize timely delivery of data and assured availability of the network, said Troy Meink, a Pentagon official responsible for networks.
While a lot of investment has gone into developing the transport layer or the data pipes and satellite bandwidth that are essential to the Pentagon's Global Information Grid, there are "other pieces that are not so expensive to develop but no less critical to ensure that we can find, access and utilize information in a timely manner," said Meink, director, communications office in the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration.
Intel-sharing with coalition partners critical to terrorist fight
 The fight to defeat the terrorist cells that haunt the world will only be successful if information can be shared among agencies and coalition partners, a senior official at U.S. Central Command said.
And doing that means operators must resist the urge to put the highest classification on intelligence and other documents – classifications that make it that much harder to share, said Col. Richard A. Davis, chief of U.S. Central Command’s Strategic C4 Architecture, Programs and Policy division. That requires technological solutions – but it also means overcoming cultural obstacles.
Spectrum Use a Problem in Joint Network Operation
 The use and management of radio frequency spectrum in the battlefield remains a “huge problem” in places such as Iraq and Afghanistan, Maj. Gen. Dennis Moran said today, but the future gives him reason to be very optimistic.
Moran, vice director, U.S. Command, Control, Communications & Computer Systems Directorate (J-6), Joint Staff, was answering a question from the audience at the C4ISR Journal Integration Conference , New Tools for War in Real Time, Arlington, VA., where he spoke about the military being on the path to an interoperable Global Information Grid.”
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