Sunday, December 16, 2007

U.S. Army Europe: 'Delousing' Computers


Via Technology Daily News.

Over the past several years the U.S. Army has invested billions of dollars in computer software, hardware and equipment to keep up with the world's ever-changing technology.

With the military's growing need for internet access comes an equal need to keep military networks, servers and systems safe from viruses, hackers and other underlying dangers that could hinder the safety and well-being of U.S. Soldiers and civilian employees.

Recently U.S. Army Europe's 5th Signal Command and the USAREUR directorate of information management sent an information infrastructure assistance team, or I2AT, to Schweinfurt, Germany to lighten the load of cleaning, updating and "wiping" computer systems for nearly 4,000 Soldiers returning from Iraq with USAREUR's 2nd Brigade, 1st Infantry Division.

More here.

Note: I worked within the 5th Signal Command in Germany (then West Germany) back in the 1980's, so this tidbit was interesting to come across. -ferg

1 Comments:

At Mon Dec 17, 02:08:00 PM PST, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Isn't there something sad about the fact that they've got the wrong time on their home page? (In fact, there's a JS comment that alludes to the fact that it should be set back to -5 for DC.)

 

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