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AFRICOM Plans High-Speed Circuits To Liberia
The U.S. military plans to lease a 622 megabit terrestrial circuit from Europe to Liberia in a matter of weeks to support Internet service for U.S. troops as they continue to deploy to Liberia to help counter the Ebola virus, U.S. Africa Command’s top communications official told Nextgov...
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Auditors Fault Pentagon Sorting of Biggest Bioweapon Threats
Auditors say the Defense Department is not following its own procedures for guarding against "potentially catastrophic" biological strikes...
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Dallas Hospital Had The Ebola Screening Machine That The Military Is Using In Africa
The military is using an Ebola screening machine that could have diagnosed the Ebola cases in Texas far faster, but government guidelines prevent hospitals from using it to actually screen for Ebola...
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Defense Department Needs to Embrace Open Source or Military Will Lose Tech Superiority
The Department of Defense needs to move past open source myths that have been debunked and jump on the open source bandwagon or the Department of Defense (DoD) and U.S. military will not be able to maintain tech superiority, warns a Center for a New American Security (CNAS) report. Open source software is used in the Pentagon, which should strongly suggest that open source is not an unsecure and vulnerable hot mess. Yet the DoD overall is stuck in the past, clinging to “erroneous and unfounded misunderstandings about open source software.” Those misconceptions often mean open source is not even considered as a viable option for DoD software projects...
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U.S. To Begin Ebola Hospital Equipment Lift To Liberia
The first planeload of hospital equipment in the U.S. military's battle against West Africa's deadly Ebola outbreak will arrive in Liberia on Friday, a senior administration official said on Wednesday...
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