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• COMMUNICATIONS ISSUES

  - 2006-03-14

  Statement of Kevin Kahn Senior Fellow and Director, Communications Technology Laboratory Intel Corporation Committee on Senate Commerce, Science, and Transportation March 14, 2006 I. INTRODUCTION I am Kevin Kahn, Intel Senior Fellow and Director of Intel`s Communications Technology Laboratory. In my current position, I manage a research and development lab...

  Tags: FCC, Intel Corp., radio, spectrum, technology, TVs, upshot, wireless

• Return to work: toward post-industrial engineering

  - 2005-08-01

  1. Introduction If any discipline is rightfully the child of the second industrial revolution and the changes it wrought in the nature of work, that discipline is industrial engineering. Forged in mills and on shopfloors at the turn of the 20th century, industrial engineering sought to tame the social...

  Tags: analysis, curriculum, Emerson, engineering, Engineering, job, knowledge, M., Nelson, Penn State, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, technology, Technology, upshot

• Army's Future Combat System shakes up procurement culture.

  - 2003-01-01

  The Army soon will be soliciting industry bids for the next phase of the Future Combat System, a program that not only is unusual for its unorthodox approach to combat vehicle development, but also is managed by an aerospace firm, the Boeing Co. In this project, the...

  Tags: Boeing Co., FINANCE, Investment, Manufacturing, procurement, Robots, Strategy, technology, Thompson, upshot

• Marines call off light truck procurement: Corps says it wants 'transformational technology' for future tactical vehicles.

  - 2002-07-01

  Delays in the development of the V-22 tilt-rotor aircraft have prompted the cancellation of the Marine Corps' light truck program known as the internally-transportable vehicle. The ITV program began two years ago, with a goal of purchasing up to 2,700 light trucks for Marines...

  Tags: Air Force, AMC, iTV, Lewis, procurement, technology, TVs, upshot

• Warfare in the information age

  - 1995-10-01

  Pentagon officials and defense analysts have a new topic to add to their list of post-Cold War concerns: information warfare, or IW, in the usual manner of military-speak. The term refers to the use of information systems--computers, communications networks, databases--for military advantage, either by the United States or by a...

  Tags: attack, computer, Government, PRODUCTIVITY, Strategy, technology, U.S., U.S. Department of Defense, upshot