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While the nation’s more than 17,000 state and local law enforcement agencies could serve as an enormous resource against domestic terror threats, to date those resources have largely gone untapped, according to one of the country’s leading counter-terrorism officials in law enforcement. Read more

Lieutenant General (ret) Robert Elder is the Former Commander, 8th Air Force Command for the US Air Force recently spoke to IDGA about the present and future value of persistent long-range strike capabilities, explaining how, among other things, these capabilities can be used to influence—to deter, assure, coerce—actor behaviors. Read more

Professor Tatsuo Itoh discusses the basic forms of conventional leaky wave antenna and their characteristics and limitations. In addition he outlines transmission line metamaterials, specifically called the CRLH (Composite Right/Left Handed) structures, and how they can be used as a leaky wave antenna, including the unique properties not realizable by the conventional leaky wave antennas. Read more

Portable body-wearable antennas can provide enormous advantages on the battlefield, but there are significant challenges in developing an effective antenna design that operates in the VHF-FM and EPLRS frequency bands, is light in weight, and small enough to fit on or inside the soldiers’ combat vest. Read more

IDGA speaks with Professor Dan Sievenpiper of the University of California at San Diego, discusses how current antenna technology is limited by the performance of passive/linear material, and how non-linear coatings can enable antennas that are impervious to high power threats. Read more

With communications tactics remaining prominent in military planning, and as technological possibilities become more sophisticated, efforts to improve and advance the potential applications of cognitive radio continues to grow. Those efforts are proceeding steadily at the US Air Force’s Office of Scientific Research, led by Dr. Robert Bonneau, Project Manager for the Air Force Office of Scientific Research. Read more

IDGA speaks with Captain Jeffrey Hoyle about joint and coalition tactical networking, the JTRS Enterprise Business Model, and the development and integration of Soldier Radio Waveform. Read more

IDGA's speaks with Dr. Jeffrey Boksiner, Chief Engineer, Antennas and Spectrum Analysis Division, US Army RDECOM CERDEC S&TCD, who dicusses Army challenges with spectrum management and cognitive radio, and the latest advances in US Army cognitive communications. Read more

IDGA speaks with Fire Chief (Ret.) Eddie Burns, Dallas Fire Rescue, Texas Task Force II, FEMA, about the current state of SAR communications technology, including how different organizations have different communications requirements, challenges to effective communications, and developments on the horizon. Read more

IDGA speaks with Stan Kaczmarczyk, FAS/ITS Director of the Cloud Computing Service for the US General Services Administration, about Cloud Computing initiatives at the GSA. Mr. Kaczmarczyk discusses the drivers and challenges found in these initatives, as well as the security concerns that need to be navigated in developing Cloud Solutions. Read more