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AUSA Winter 10: DoD S&T initiatives focus on data management and network environments

25th February 2010 - 08:22 GMT | by Scott Gourley in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida

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In an opening address to the Association of the United States Army’s Institute of Land Warfare Winter Symposium and Exposition, Alan Shaffer, Principal Deputy to the Director of Defense Research and Engineering (DDR&E) [DDR&E is the primary technology officer for the Department of Defense], recognised many ongoing science and technology activities being conducted by individual armed services.

'But at DDR&E our job is to kind of “look across the top,”'he said. 'And in looking across the top, we are trying to come up with strategic initiatives that will tie all the services together. To date we have come up with

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