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Peter A. Buxbaum

Air Force to invest in radio-over-IP

Providing tactical communications to U.S. warfighters in Iraq has emerged as a major priority of the Air Force's CIO.

DISA needs help to clean up its books

Efforts by the Defense Information Systems Agency to clean up its financial books could mean money for its contractors.

General Dynamics to install VOIP at Pentagon

General Dynamics won an $18.4 million Defense contract to design and install voice-over-IP for DOD's Renovation and Construction program office.

Army to heavily fund force integration in '08

The Army will spend as much as $2.3 billion on its Future Combat Systems initiative in fiscal 2008 and hundreds of millions more on initiatives designed to better integrate its forces, a top Army official said.

To win against terrorism, DOD networks must be innovative

"You need a network to defeat a network." That concept is key to winning against al-Qaida in Afghanistan and Iraq, according to Lt. Gen. Douglas Lute, director of operations, J-3 of the Joint Staff.