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Calendar Archive, July 2006
Tuesday, July 4, 2006
Washington Section Administrative Committee
There will be no meeting of the Washington Section Administrative Committee in July.
Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee
There will be no meeting of the Northern Virginia Section Administrative Committee in July. Please disregard the meeting announcement published in the Scanner.
Sunday, July 16, 2006
Annual IEEE Northern Virginia Section Picnic
Sponsor: Northern Virginia Section, Graduates of the Last Decade, Women in Engineering, Communications Society
Place: Lake Fairfax, Reston, VA
Time: 12:00 noon to 4:00 pm
Directions: From the Beltway, take exit 47A (Route 7, Leesburg Pike) to Baron Cameron Avenue. Turn left on Baron Cameron Avenue and take the second left onto Lake Fairfax Drive. Follow the signs to the picnic.
More Info: All section members (including student members) and their guests (including children) are invited. There is no charge. Hot dogs, hamburgers, and vegetarian burgers will be grilled, and cold sodas will also be provided. Optionally, a food item such as a dessert, or an outdoor game, would be appreciated. Please no alcohol.
Contact: In order that we may plan appropriately, please RSVP to
Chuck Baldi at cbaldi@ieee.org or Syed Ahmed at
syed.f.ahmed@ieee.org.
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Military Communications From Vietnam to Iraq: Issues and Challenges
Sponsors: Communications Society, Northern Virginia and Washington Chapters; Women in Engineering
Speaker: Maj. Gen. Charles G. Sutten, Jr., U.S. Army (Ret.)
Time: Dinner 6:00 pm; speaker 6:45 pm
Place: Mitre Corporation, Conference Auditorium, Building 1 (back entrance), 7525 Colshire Drive, McLean, VA
Directions:
See
www.mitre.org/about/locations/mitre1_map.html.
More Info: See Diamond story, below.
Cost: Free for IEEE members.
Contract: Please RSVP to Fred Seelig at fred.seelig@ieee.org.
Diamond Stories
Tuesday, July 25, 2006
Military Communications From Vietnam to Iraq: Issues and Challenges
Military communications have evolved considerably over the last 45 years. During some periods of that 45 years, the state of technology and the equipment in the hands of soldiers, sailors, airmen and marines satisfactorily supported the warfighters in the conduct of operations. During other periods, the match between the technology and equipment available did not meet the challenges of supporting operational commanders. The purpose of this talk is to examine this evolution of military communications with the objective of identifying potential areas of research or engineering development to solve outstanding problems. The talk will focus primarily on the employment of ground forces and the ability of all sources of communications to support those forces at the strategic, operational and tactical levels of war.
Maj. Gen. Charles G. Sutten, Jr. has more than 38 years of experience in the field of information technology (IT), commanding and leading large organizations in the U.S. Army, the Department of Defense, and the IT professional services industry. He possesses operational experience and knowledge of the doctrine and operational concepts for C4ISR systems from the Airborne Infantry Battalion level to the Joint and Combined level on a worldwide basis.
Gen. Sutten served as a presidential trip officer in the White House Communications Agency, as the senior Signal Officer and Theater Signal Commander for Army Central Command during Desert Shield and Desert Storm, as the Theater Signal Commander and CIO for the United States Army in Europe for four years following the fall of the Berlin Wall, and as the Commanding General of the Army Signal Command supporting all Army Component Commanders and the regional COCOMs on a worldwide basis.
After retirement from the Army, he managed a $100M a year professional services business unit specializing in large-scale systems integration. In 2004, he retired a second time and currently is an adjunct research staff member at the Institute for Defense Analyses in the area of operational testing of C4 ground systems. He has been a member of the IEEE Communications Society since 1977 when he was an assistant professor of electrical engineering at West Point. He holds an M.S.E.E. from Stanford University, an M.B.A. from Long Island University, and a B.S. from West Point.
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