Wow. Now this is interesting... I never thought I'd see something like this come up.
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Maj. Gen. Nick Justice, Research, Development and Engineering Command commanding general and key members of his staff traveled to Apple headquarters March 5.
Apple officials gave the Army group tours of its laboratories and other facilities and talked about some examples of where the military is already using Apple technology. The Army's research and development command is evaluating commercial hand-held solutions such as iPad, iPhone, iPod, iMac, and MacBook platforms.
"The Army is moving away from big-green-box solutions and toward those that will adapt along with our warfighters on the battlefield," Justice said.
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"Apple technologies offer unique and proven solutions with intuitive designs that allow users to learn quickly without a training manual," said Ron Szymanski, CERDEC's lead computer scientist on the project. "The Army would like to leverage Apple's experience when designing military applications."
Engaging companies such as Apple allows the Army research and development community to leverage commercial business models as well, said Dr. Gerardo J. Melendez, director, CERDEC Command and Control Directorate.
"As we push to develop more commercial capabilities to meet Army information and knowledge management needs, it's important that we engage companies such as Apple because we stand to benefit just as much from their lessons learned and best practices," Melendez said. "Eliminating unnecessary processes or degrees of trial and error can only help us as we transition applications that can be deployed to numerous tactical levels throughout the Army."
Stuff like this (the story in the OP) has been popping up with increasing regularity since I started into the Terminator universe two weeks ago. The worst was probably when the share-drive server at the university was gutted by a fast-spreading virus....right after I finished watching an episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
Stuff like this (the story in the OP) has been popping up with increasing regularity since I started into the Terminator universe two weeks ago. The worst was probably when the share-drive server at the university was gutted by a fast-spreading virus....right after I finished watching an episode of The Sarah Connor Chronicles.
I found rootkits called Skynet in my computer a few months ago during a routine scan.
From 1996 Yorktown was used as the testbed for the Navy's Smart Ship program. The ship was equipped with a network of 27 dual 200 MHz Pentium Pro based machines running Windows NT 4.0 communicating over fiber-optic cable with a Pentium Pro based server. This network was responsible for running the integrated control center on the bridge, monitoring condition assessment, damage control, machinery control and fuel control, monitoring the engines and navigating the ship. This system was estimated to save $2.8 million per year by reducing the ship's complement by 10%.
On September 21, 1997, while on maneuvers off the coast of Cape Charles, Virginia, a crew member entered a zero into a database field causing a divide by zero error in the ship's Remote Data Base Manager which brought down all the machines on the network, causing the ship's propulsion system to fail.[4]
Anthony DiGiorgio, a civilian contractor with a 26-year history of working on Navy control systems, reported in 1998 that the Yorktown had to be towed back to Norfolk Naval Station. Ron Redman, a deputy technical director with the Aegis Program Executive Office, backed up this claim, suggesting that such system failures had required Yorktown to be towed back to port several times.[5]
Years ago I took a linux course.. yeah a linux course.. it was super duper hard. There were some US missile defense guys taking the course too because they wanted to make their systems more secure.. lol!
US Army Wants Apple
I'm sorry, you can't fire a Tomahawk missile at this time as it duplicates functionality already found on other warships.
