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Defense Users Flock to Secure Collaborative Platform The Department of Defense in May reached a historic milestone in its efforts to collaborate and share information using social media behind the firewall, as the 200,000th unique user registered on milSuite, the military’s secure collaborative platform. MilSuite is a DoD enterprisewide suite of collaboration tools that mirror existing social media platforms such as YouTube, Wikipedia, Facebook and Twitter. The milSuite user community includes more than 200 flag officers across DoD, including eight Army four-star generals, as well as nearly 20,000 field officers. Through milSuite, these senior leaders can share their best practices with an enterprisewide community, as well as leverage existing knowledge
to improve current processes and reduce duplicative efforts. Currently, milSuite comprises four tools: milWiki, a living knowledge bank with more than 14,000 military encyclopedia entries; milBook, a professional networking tool and collaborative space which hosts more than 2,500 working groups; milBlog, a place to share and comment on internal news and events; and milTube, a video-sharing capability. The tools are integrated through a common user profile and linked by a Google search appliance. Approximately 55,000 new accounts have been added on the platform since the launch of milSuite enterprise edition in 2011, which enabled registration through a Common Access Card.
The Army’s Military Technical (MilTech) Solutions Office, assigned to the Program Executive Office for Command, Control and Communications-Tactical, developed the product and has led the effort to institute its use. As milSuite continues to expand, MilTech Solutions is working with Army and DoD leadership to begin offering milSuite as an official enterprise product. The next generation of milSuite, version 4.0, is planned for release later this year. The upgrade will include enhancements, including integration with Microsoft SharePoint, the ability to leverage widgets across milSuite and a developers’ area that will provide application programming interfaces to extend milSuite products through external resources.
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Marine Corps Major General Jon M. Davis has been nominated for appointment to the rank of lieutenant general, and assigned as deputy commander, U.S. Cyber Command.
Officer/G-6, has been assigned as deputy commander, 335th Signal Command (Theater Operational Command Post) (Forward), Camp Arifjan, Kuwait.
Major General Stuart M. Dyer, U.S. Army Reserve, who has been serving as commander, 335th Signal Command (Theater), East Point, Ga., has been assigned as chief integration officer, Army Office of the Chief Information Officer/G-6.
Major General Brett T. Williams, who has been serving as director of operations, deputy chief of staff, operations, plans and requirements, Headquarters U.S. Air Force, has been assigned as director, operations, J-3, Headquarters U.S. Cyber Command, Fort Meade, Md.
General Robert A. Carr (Ret.) as corporate lead executive for company business in Fort Meade and Aberdeen, Md. Carr reports to Jack Dorsett, vice president of cybersecurity and command, control, computers and communications, Corporate Government Relations. Carr had a 31-year career with the Army, having most recently served as the director, Defense Counterintelligence and HUMINT Center, Defense Intelligence Agency.
Army Major General Mark W. Perrin has been assigned as deputy director, Signals Intelligence Directorate, National Security Agency, Fort Meade, Md. David Helfgott
Major General Steven W. Smith, U.S. Army Reserve, who has been serving as chief integration officer, Army Office of the Chief Information
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Brig. Gen. Robert A. Carr (Ret.)
Northrop Grumman has appointed Army Brigadier
David Helfgott has been named president and chief executive officer of Inmarsat Government. Prior to joining
the company last year, Helfgott had held positions that includes president and chief executive officer of DataPath, and president and CEO of SES Americom Government Services. L-3 Communications has appointed Dr. Craig Reed and John Heller to the L-3 Services Group’s (LSG) executive leadership team. They will report to Tony Smeraglinolo, currently executive vice president of LSG, who will be appointed Engility’s chief executive officer upon completion of the spin-off of the company’s government services businesses in engineering, technical, training and operational support. Reed and Heller will assist with the implementation plans for the Engility spin-off and then transition to Engility once the transaction is complete.
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