A. Denis Clift is President of the Joint Military Intelligence College. During the Napoleonic Wars, the French revolutionized land-based communications with the erection of semaphore towers bearing rotating arms to fashion coded signals that could speed by lineof-sight from tower to tower along the coast and across the country at some 200 miles an hour. The British quickly followed suit in that...

At present, distributed real-time applications flourish, including the military systems, telecommunications, factory automation, traffic control, financial trading, medical imaging, and so on, these applications will need to make real-time reliable data transmission. Publish/Subscribe interaction scheme is very suitable for distributed communications system applications. In this paper, based on...

Within the last century, the country has been marked by political instability (Eliot, 1997; Freedom House, 2000). Particularly since its separation from British colonial rule in 1948, Burma has witnessed significant political change, violence and unrest. Since the early 1960s, Burma has essentially been an isolated state, with closed borders and a military government. However, the fall of the B...

Nations may defend their freedom of Information and availability of their Information and Communications Technology Services by either Isolation or Habituation, which are both applicable but require totally different structures, culture and governance. Information Operations are not only state level measures, but can be utilized at very low levels and by small entities. It requires multilevel p...

Police trainees who were ready to graduate from the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) volunteered to participate in an exercise designed to evaluate their survivability. In a highly stressful interactive scenario, which included a hostage situation during a staged domestic dispute, performance was evaluated for a range of responses, including: weapon malfunction, shooting judgment...

Specific applications like military or public emergency ones require secure group communication in ad hoc environments. The most suitable solution to provide the expected level of security to these services is the provision of a key management protocol. This paper shows the specific challenges towards key management protocols for securing multicast communications in ad hoc networks, and provide...

Recent advancement in wireless communications and electronics has enabled the development of low-cost sensor networks. The sensor networks can be used for various application areas (e.g., health, military, home). For different application areas, there are different technical issues that researchers are currently resolving. The current state of the art of sensor networks is captured in this arti...

Although still in its primary phase up to now, the research about EMC science and its technological application in modern industries has become more and more noticeable. In this paper the main subjects for EMC research are introduced, then discussed briefly are some hot research topics concerning the application of EMC technology, as in such areas as military field, industrial electronics or mi...

Rapid, sustained advances in computing and communications are now enabling the incorporation of high-speed, low-cost, distributed information processing capabilities into technology components and system of all kinds, at all scales. This trend promises to provide enormous benefits by enabling new functions and improving the performance of existing functions. The potential for value creation is ...

We review Sandia’s silicon photonics platform for government applications. Silicon photonics offers the potential for extensive size, weight, power, and cost (SWaP-c) reductions compared to existing III-V or purely electronics circuits. The Sandia fabrication facility is certified as a trusted foundry and can therefore produce devices and circuits intended for military applications. We will des...