- Mark Day, Deputy CIO, Environment Protection Agency
- Major Initiatives (Emerging Technology, Security)
- Career Opportunities and Outsourcing
- Involvement with FOSE 2003
- Bill Howell, Senior VP and GM of Trade Show Group
- FOSE 2003 Overview
- April 8th through 10th, 2003
- Convention Center, Washington, DC
- Technology developed by the Army’s Night Vision Laboratory
- Army’s Motto "We Own the Night"
- Night Vision Goggles (reflected light, near infrared)
- Use Image Intensifier Tube Technology
- Image reflected light in the 1 micron wavelenght range
- Work best under full or partial moonlight
- Most sensitive and expensive systems can operate under starlight
- Limited field of view 40 degrees with no depth perception
- Cost $2,000-8,000
- Blowing sand can be a problem because this is near IR
- Thermal Sensors (FLIRs)
- Image thermally emitted radiation using cooled and uncooled technology
- Also called Forward Looking Infrared (FLIR) Sensors
- Do not require ambient light
- More expensive than Image Intensifiers used in Googles (greater than $12K-$20K/system)
- Syria Suspected of selling Goggles to Iraq
- GPS Tutorial
- 24 Navstar satellites in 6 planes (Rockwell International)
- Initial cost to US Government $12 billion
- 10,900 nautical mile altitude
- 12 hour orbital period, 55 degrees to equatorial plane
- Each transmits pseudo random code
- How they work
- Triangulation with three satellites each with atomic clock
- Four satellite measurement used to derive time
- 24 Navstar satellites in 6 planes (Rockwell International)
- Differential GPS used to cancel adverse atmospheric effects
- How they can be spoofed
- Fake satellite transmissions
- Fake base station transmission for differential GPS
- Russian company suspected of selling GPS jammers to Iraq
- E-mail changes life for troops and families
- Digital Battlefield
- Described in Joint Vision 2010
- Outlined in FM 71-100 (Chapter 9: Fighting on the Digitized Battlefield)
- Situational Awareness
- Network Centric Warfare used to exploit advances in IT
- Digital Battalions have proved themselves in combat excercises
- Major initiatives include that are being tested include:
- Navy-Marine Intranet
- Army?s Global Command and Control System
- Global Information Grid
- Computer Support Staff is Crucial to Effort
- Pentagon buying commercial satellites
- Using 10 times the satellite capability that was used in 1991
- Contracts to Space Imaging ($120M), DigitalGlobe, Eutelsat SA (Paris, $100M), Instelsat.
- Predator uses lots of bandwidth (contract to PanAmSat Corp?s G2 Division)
- Inmarsat (Britain) has redirected spare satellite to Iraqi region ($1.50/minute voice, $6.00/minute video)
- Triangulation using Three Planes or one plane with multiple passes
- Breaking the encryption code
- Looking for specific satellite phone number
- Reporters warned not to use such phones in Bagdad
- DOD Guidelines for Embedded Reporters
- Satellite Videophone used by Embedded Reported
- Needed Equipment
- Inmarsat Mini-M Satellite Phone
- Rental Rate:$70/week
- Cost: $2,995
- Handheld Video Camera
- Connection Cost: $4 to $8/minute
- Inmarsat Mini-M Satellite Phone
- Satellite Providers: Inmarsat (British), Iridium (VA), Globalstar (CA)
- Needed Equipment
- More than 1,000 Websites Have Been Hacked
- Most prolific: Unix Security Guards
- A pro-Islamic hacking group
- Already has hacked 400 sites
- Group includes hackers from Egypt, Morocco, Kuwait, Indonesia
- Latest US Hack targeted al-Jazeera Homepage
- Homeland security boosts monitors of cyberterrorism
- No major disruption to the Internet, which is proving to be very robust
- Internet Health Report is in the green
- Traffic to news sites up 41% since beginning of war
- Most popular search terms immediately following Bushes war speech
- Iraq, George W. Bush, world map, Ari Fliecher, Saddam Hussein, and war
- Most countries in Middle East us GSM
- US uses CDMA invented by Qualcomm (CA company)
- Next Start April 21th, May 26th
- Open House May 10th