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Cyber

Navy Needs Secure And Interoperable Networks To Defeat Adversaries, Official Says

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Thursday, March 5th, 2009

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By Geoff Fein Without secure and interoperable networks, the Navy won't be able to achieve two of the Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) cooperative strategy's overarching themes--cooperation among all maritime services and preventing and winning small wars, a top Navy official said yesterday. The challenge the Navy has is in delivering intelligence and information to the warfighter virtually and instantaneously against the 21st century cyber threat, Vice Adm. Harry Harris, deputy CNO communications networks and deputy chief of information, told…

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Army

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