Concerned lawmakers recently intervened on behalf of the Defense Security Service, which has taken a lot of heat for serious backlogs in the processing of security clearance applications.
With few exceptions, a single security clearance can open doors across government. IT professionals and others who have endured rigorous background checks, extensive personal investigations and often-excruciating waiting periods to attain government clearances may not realize that those credentials translate widely across agencies.
New presidential administration and a heightened awareness point to a new priority for government IT security, according to RSA Security CEO Art Coviello.
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The National Information Assurance Partnership has awarded the highest level of assurance yet for an operating system to Green Hills Software’s Integrity.
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U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability received the Association for Enterprise Integration's Excellence in Enterprise Integration Award and two awards from Training Magazine for excellence in contributions to joint training.
Personnel from U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team (JFIIT) and the Army's Battle Command Training Program (BCTP) worked with the Joint Warfighting Center's Deployable Training Team to enhance the joint fires knowledge of the U.S. Army's I Corps as part of Unified Endeavor 09-1.
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U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team recently supported U.S. and coalitions partners in a joint training integration event between an Air Force exercise and an Army brigade combat team training rotation.
U.S. Joint Forces Command will conduct the final phase of Unified Endeavor 09-01 Operation Iraqi Freedom from Oct. 21 - 31 at selected locations in the United States and United Kingdom to prepare units slated to deploy to Iraq early next year.
USJFCOM’s Standing Joint Force Headquarters will transition to a new Joint Enabling Capabilities Command designed to be a more agile and responsive organization of smaller, functionally-focused teams Oct. 1.
U.S. Joint Forces Command and NATO’s Allied Command – Transformation will partner during a November command post exercise to support the training of the Afghan National Army.
U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Warfighting Center is hosting the Keystone training course in Suffolk, Va., designed to educate command senior enlisted leaders on joint doctrine and the joint operational art.
U.S. Joint Forces Command signed a memorandum of agreement with the Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation in Orlando, Fla. recently to enhance interoperability of training and modeling and simulation technologies used by the warfighter.
U.S. Joint Forces Command is working with NATO’s Allied Command Transformation on the development of the NATO Training Federation, a capability that will allow for better training of multi-national forces deploying in support of operations.
U.S. Joint Forces Command's Standing Joint Force Headquarters recently ran personnel from the command's various joint enabling capabilities through training and a series of qualifying tests designed to prepare them for deployment.
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U.S. Joint Forces Command has brought together over 40 senior officers from the reserves and National Guard to increase their understanding of operations at various levels.
U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team (JFIIT) has helped the Army's Counter Rocket, Artillery, and Mortar (C-RAM) Program and the National Training Center to improve base defense systems in the training environment the Army's brigade combat teams use to prepare to go overseas.
Special Operations Command-Joint Forces Command recently conducted a week-long course in Suffolk, Va. for those transferring to a theater special operations command or being assigned as an individual augmentee to a joint special operations task force to prepare them for what they will see and do when they deploy.
U.S. Joint Forces Command, the command's Joint Warfighting Center and U.S. Central Command worked together to set new conditions for pre-deployment training of soldiers, sailors, airmen and Marines who are entering a combat zone.
For the first time, personnel at U.S. Joint Forces Command and forces in the United Kingdom communicated over a live virtual network during a training exercise. Officials at the Suffolk, Va.-based Joint Warfighting Center say the linking of forward air controllers in one country to simulated aircraft in another represents the next step in the evolution of joint training.
The United States Distance Learning Association recently named USJFCOM's Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability and Joint Knowledge Online as the winners of their 2008 "21st Century Best Practice" Award.
U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Ft. Mcpherson, Ga.-based Joint Interoperability Division recently sent mobile training teams to Korea and Germany to deliver courses aimed to teach and better equip the joint warfighter in current capabilities and how to manage information to support real world operations.
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U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team (JFIIT) is helping soldiers understand the various aspects of available weapons systems and capabilities at Ft. Polk's Joint Readiness Training Center as they prepare for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Knowledge Online prepares warfighters for deployment, providing them with an enhanced training capability full of courseware to better prepare them for theater.
U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Targeting School is expanding its course of instruction to meet the needs of the joint warfighter while maintaining a baseline to provide efficient joint training to its service member students.
Special Operations Command-Joint Forces Command continues to prepare conventional and special operations joint forces commanders and their staffs for using special operations-capable troops around the globe.
The Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability (JKDDC) Joint Management Office has used Joint Knowledge Online’s distance learning capability to ensure U.S. Forces Korea’s ability to train incoming personnel on important issues like cultural awareness.
Charged with coordinating the U.S. military's overall joint training efforts, U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Training Directorate and Joint Warfighting Center in Suffolk, Va. plays an important role in joint training transformation. Recently, Army Maj. Gen. Jason Kamiya, director of joint training, discussed the goals and expectations of his training team, their progress under his watch, and what lies ahead.
U.S. Joint Forces Command's joint fires professionals have brought key air-ground targeting training to soldiers undergoing training for global operations in Iraq and Afghanistan.
U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Deployment Training Center, based at Ft. Eustis, Va., has extended its reach to prepare joint warfighters for duties around the globe by using a virtual campus and increased on-line training.
U.S. Joint Forces Command continued its Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa Mission Rehearsal Exercise this week at the Joint Warfighting Center in Suffolk, Va. using realistic scenarios to train personnel to conduct joint operations within the Horn of Africa.
U.S. Joint Forces Command began its Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa Mission Rehearsal Exercise this week at the Joint Warfighting Center in Suffolk, Va. to train personnel to conduct joint operations within the Horn of Arica.
Government and military personnel, as well as Rep. Thelma Drake (R-Va.), gathered in Suffolk, Va. for a ribbon-cutting ceremony to mark the opening of a new facility for the Special Operations Command Joint Forces Command, which serves as the DoD's primary joint special operations forces trainer and integrator, supporting all geographic combatant commands and joint task forces.
With the intent to raise awareness of USJFCOM's continuing transformation efforts, this is part of a series of profiles, allowing command subject matter experts to highlight priorities, challenges, and solution paths for the future in their field. Army Col. Wesley Rehorn, commander of Special Operations Command - Joint Forces recently discussed SOCJFCOM, some of the current projects his team is working on, and what lies ahead.
A new super computer, assigned to U.S. Joint Forces Command, arrived at the Joint Training and Experimentation Center recently. Armed with the power of more than 1,000 individual computers, the new system will help joint operators enhance modeling and simulation experimentation and training efforts in support of the warfighter.
U.S. Joint Forces Command's (USJFCOM) Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team (JFIIT) will partner with U.S. Central Command Air Forces (CENTAF) to provide joint close air support expertise and share some unique technological capabilities with joint warfighters.
U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team (JFIIT) will focus on air-ground integration when it conducts a brigade combat team exercise at the U.S. Army's National Training Center at Fort Irwin, Calif., starting in November.
U.S. Joint Forces Command begins the latest iteration of the Unified Endeavor Mission Rehearsal Exercise series to help the Army’s 101st Airborne Division and other units get ready for duty with Combined Joint Task Force-82 (CJTF-82) and NATO ISAF Regional Command East in Afghanistan.
U.S. Joint Forces Command concludes the latest iteration of the Unified Endeavor Mission Rehearsal Exercise series designed to help the Army’s XVIII Airborne Corps and other units get ready for duty in Iraq.
U.S. Joint Forces Command begins the latest iteration of the Unified Endeavor Mission Rehearsal Exercise series to help the Army's XVIII Airborne Corps and other units get ready for duty with Multi-National Corps Iraq.
Working across oceans, USJFCOM flexed a multinational training network on the Suffolk, Va.-based Joint Training and Experimentation Network while linking together exercise participants in Australia and at U.S. Pacific Command in Hawaii during Talisman Saber 2007, one of Australia's largest military training events.
Twenty members of the United States Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) Standing Joint Force Headquarters (SJFHQ) deployed to San Antonio, Texas and Providence, R.I. to support a national training event for the 2007 hurricane season.
A subordinate, functional command of U.S. Joint Forces Command tasked with improving the integration, interoperability and effectiveness of joint fires is playing a key role in helping to train soldiers, airmen and Marines to better do their jobs as joint fires observers and joint terminal attack controllers.
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U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Warfighting Center hosts the last in-residence Joint Force Headquarters Individual Augmentation Personnel course. Army Spc. Andrew Orillion has the story.
The director of U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint National Training Capability details the capability's status and how it's improving by conducting analysis of service and combatant command training environments as well as adding new training site connectivity.
U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Warfighting Center concluded its week-long Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa Mission Rehearsal Exercise here today to prepare joint warfighters for deployment to nations across east Africa and Yemen.
On Jan. 13 , U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) began the latest iteration of the Unified Endeavor Mission Rehearsal Exercise series to prepare servicemembers from the U.S. Navy's Standing Navy Joint Command Element for deployment to nations in the Horn of Africa. USJFCOM's Robert Pursell liveblogged directly from the exercise at the Joint Warfighting Center in Suffolk, Va.
USJFCOM conducts mission rehearsal exercise to prepare Combined Joint Task Force - Horn of Africa for deployment for service in countries such as Kenya, Somalia, Ethiopia and Eritrea.
During 2006, U.S. Joint Forces Command’s made great strides, working with governmental and nongovernmental agencies and other nations to develop better ways of supporting each other, forging new partnerships with industry and academia, and supporting the warfighter around the world. The command conducted experiments that investigated how the U.S. military and its allies and partners will train and operate together in the future, and its efforts in analyzing lessons learned in the Global War on Terrorism yielded a groundbreaking report on Saddam Hussein’s regime.
U.S. Joint Forces Command’s recently received approval to connect the Joint Training and Experimentation Network and Australia’s Defence Training and Experimentation Network, allowing the two countries to link simulation networks and efficiently train together across long distances.
The High Performance Computing Modernization Program recently assigned U.S. Joint Forces Command with a super computer to help joint operators enhance modeling and simulation experimentation and training efforts in support of the Long War.
U.S. Joint Forces Command's command surgeon hosted the 13th annual Joint Task Force Senior Medical Leader Seminar at the Joint Forces Staff College the first week of December focused on integration and team building in the joint medical environment.
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U.S. Joint Forces Command will hold a Command Control, Communications and Computers Planners course to provide knowledge and experience of joint systems in theater.
USJFCOM has began Unified Endeavor Mission Rehearsal Exercise to prepare the U.S. Army’s 82nd Airborne Division for deployment to Afghanistan. Join MCC(SW/AW) Chris Hoffpauir as he liveblogs directly from Unified Endeavor 07-1 at Ft. Bragg, N.C.
U.S. Joint Forces Command will join five other local partners on the Eastern Virginia LightWave Internetworking Technology Enterprise network, a high-speed, high-bandwidth network in southeastern Virginia that supports scientific and military research.
U.S. Joint Forces Command will join other military organizations in the 2006 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference to raise awareness on how to better prepare the joint warfighter through modeling and simulation.
Members of U.S. Joint Forces Command's senior leadership assisted as the Navy Reserve transformed one of its officer training course in to a joint training event bringing together students from all five services.
U.S. Joint Forces Command's deputy commander of the Joint Warfighting Center and deputy director for joint training will assume a new post in Bosnia and Herzegovina.
U.S. Joint Forces Command sent a training team to support U.S. Central Command’s Regional Cooperation 2006 exercise, which began at the Frunze Military Academy in the Kyrgyz Republic this week.
Joint Warfighting Center Commander and Director for Joint Training Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Jon Gallinetti outlines the progress of U.S. Joint Forces Command's efforts supporting training transformation over the past two years.
U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability Joint Management Office looks to transform training by providing today's joint warfighter with the joint knowledge needed to make sound decisions in the heat of combat.
The Executive Leadership Development Program provides its U.S. Joint Forces Command participants with extensive exposure to the multiple roles and missions within the DoD giving them a greater understanding of today's warfighter.
U.S. Joint Forces Command (USJFCOM) recently conducted a mission rehearsal exercise to help prepare the 21,000 U.S. service members scheduled for rotational deployment to Iraq later this year meet their upcoming mission.
A U.S. Joint Forces Command-sponsored Partnership for Peace seminar helps explain and demonstrate relevant aspects of civilian democratic control of the military.
The recently-completed Northern Edge 2006 provided opportunities to utilize U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint National Training Capability to link together operators all over the Pacific and enable seamless integration for operators from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps and Air Force.
U.S. Joint Forces Command gave visiting general and flag officers a walking tour of displays and technology demonstrations to showcase the command's efforts in training transformation.
Maj. Gen. Jason K. Kamiya, commanding general of the Army’s Southern European Task Force (Airborne), based in Vicenza, Italy, will become the new commander of U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Warfighting Center and director of joint training.
Government and military personnel gathered in Suffolk to mark the opening of the Joint Technology Exploration Center (JTEC), which will reduce spending for large-scale training exercises by working to convey the latest in modeling and simulation (M&S) training straight to the members in the field.
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U.S. Joint Forces Command is training its service components on the newly-implemented Acquisition Cross-Service Agreement Global Automated Tracking and Reporting System, which helps track bi-lateral logistics support, supplies and services agreements between the U.S. and allied nations.
U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Warfighting Center uses a unique approach, a simulated television network, to prepare joint warfighters for the effects the media has on joint operations around the world.
USJFCOM formed the Joint Fires Integration and Interoperability Team one year ago this week and the organization's made substantial progress in helping the services operate together as a joint fires capability better according to the team's commander.
U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Warfighting Center became the new home of the Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability Joint Management Office, assuming responsibility for one of the key pillars of DoD's Training Transformation program.
U.S. Joint Forces Command has assumed responsibility for one of the key pillars of the Department of Defense's Training Transformation program, the Joint Knowledge Development and Distribution Capability.
During recent remarks, the Congressional Modeling & Simulations Training Caucus chairman touted U.S. Joint Forces Command as a catalyst for the modeling and simulation industry.
U.S. Joint Forces Command and the Joint Forces Staff College are continuing their partnership of working together to deliver joint command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) instruction to joint task force and combatant command C4I decision makers.
U.S. Joint Forces Command seeks non-personal technical services to support U.S. Joint Forces Command’s Joint Warfighting Center joint training, exercise and rehearsal program.
2005 was an active and productive year for U.S. Joint Forces Command. Throughout the year, the command's public affairs writing staff followed the command’s major efforts and milestones and provided the latest news on the many facets of the command's mission. For this story, we linked back to what we saw then and look ahead to what the command has planned for 2006.
U.S. Joint Forces Command recently provided military medical professionals with vital joint task force health care information and requirements they will face as they deploy around the world to support joint warfighters.
U.S. Joint Forces Command will showcase its modeling and simulation efforts supporting the joint warfighter when the command participates in the 2005 Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference in Orlando, Fla. in late November.
As the modeling and simulation field continues to develop, U.S. Joint Forces Command works with its partners to harness this technology and share the command's work in this field with a group of reporters.
USJFCOM teamed with the Air Force and Army during exercise Unified Endeavor 06-1 to train Army headquarters and staff for joint operations supporting Operation Enduring Freedom and the Global War on Terrorism.
U.S. Joint Forces Command will assume management of Joint Warfare System, a faster-than-real-time, theater-level simulation tool which combatant commanders can use to test battle campaigns and facilitate risk reduction before deploying.
U.S. Joint Forces Command's Joint Urban Operations Training Branch continued the development of a cohesive approach to joint urban operations training during a recent meeting.
The Army's V Corps recently assessed a Joint Systems Integration Command's operational prototype of a situational awareness system designed to give commanders both capability and mobility as they move around the battle field. The system went from concept to a ready-to-deploy operational prototype in just eleven months.
USJFCOM's Joint Requirements and Integration Directorate is working closely with several other organizations to standardize training and procedures for joint close air support.
U.S. Joint Forces Command showcased various modeling and simulation efforts to the House of Representatives Modeling and Simulation Training Caucus during a recent visit to the command.
USJFCOM hosts Regional Cooperation 2005, a Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff sponsored and USCENTCOM conducted exercise, at the Joint Warfighting Center in Suffolk, Va.
U.S. Joint Forces Command recently unveiled an overhauled joint Web-based training environment, making it more user-friendly to support joint warfighters working around the world.
USJFCOM’s Joint Warfighting Center’s newest version of the Joint Theater Level Simulation technology reduces joint training, experimentation, planning and mission rehearsal support costs.
A U.S. Joint Forces Command-sponsored Partnership for Peace seminar in Washington, D.C. helps explain how militaries in democratic countries work towards transforming their capabilities.
Sgt. Maj. Ken Teske left his home in Southern California and joined the U.S. Army out of boredom in 1984. Twenty-one years later, he is the Joint Warfighting Center's Joint Training Division senior enlisted leader and helping to shape future joint warfighters by providing top training around the globe.
As the Obama girls get ready to move into the White House, their parents must decide how to help them live in the fishbowl of the presidency.
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As the youngest children to occupy the White House since the Kennedys, the Obama daughters are poised to serve a dual role in America's new first family. They humanize a future president, while presenting an image of vitality to a nation mired in economic despair.
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Leaders for GM, Ford, Chrysler warn of broader peril for U.S. economy if companies fail<img src="http://feeds.baltimoresun.com/~r/baltimoresun/news/rss2/~4/457349769" height="1" width="1"/>
Executive cites 20 percent decrease in 5-year period
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Crime is at a 20-year low in Baltimore County, with declines in nearly every category in the past few years, the county executive announced today.<img src="http://feeds.baltimoresun.com/~r/baltimoresun/news/rss2/~4/457619091" height="1" width="1"/>
Case involving employee with keys to bus fare boxes referred to prosecutors
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The Maryland Transit Administration has referred a case to criminal investigators at the Attorney General's Office involving an employee who used keys to bus fare boxes to gain access to the collected money, according to a legislative audit released today.<img src="http://feeds.baltimoresun.com/~r/baltimoresun/news/rss2/~4/457570971" height="1" width="1"/>
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Junior guard scores 28 points in Terps' 73-49 win over Youngstown State
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Throughout his basketball career at the University of Maryland, Greivis Vasquez has attracted attention -- for good reason or bad, and, at times, for no reason at all.<img src="http://feeds.baltimoresun.com/~r/baltimoresun/news/rss2/~4/457926496" height="1" width="1"/>
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City Council proposal would ban smoking on sidewalks adjacent to buildings
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Darryl Melvin likes to smoke a cigarette on the sidewalk in front of Mercy Medical Center after he sees his cardiologist - an appointment he keeps every three months.<img src="http://feeds.baltimoresun.com/~r/baltimoresun/news/rss2/~4/457107907" height="1" width="1"/>
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