And it's taken a while for the Army's personnel system, the Army's officer corps to really understand how fundamental this shift is, that the key to success is no longer exclusively American combat units well trained and well led, but is now increasingly Iraqi Security Forces well trained and well led.
Its space and communications division, based in Seal Beach, California, is the lead contractor working on America's national missile-defence system, as well as the provider of the future combat system that is part of the integrated battlespace system for the army.
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The constitution, the police, the army and the judicial system have all been reformed.
The biggest beneficiaries of the current system are the army of bureaucrats that receive very comfortable salaries administering various programs.
The Future Combat System became the centerpiece of Army modernization from 2003, when it was formally introduced, until the end of the Bush administration.
"It's a major coup for Equivital, which, despite its small size - currently only 25 employees - provides the US Army with its human body monitoring system, " the company told BBC News.
New Orleans, hit so hard by what so many (including President Obama in his Sunday interview with the local newspaper) still see fit to describe, mistakenly, as a natural disaster, is making remarkable progress, while the agency that so disastrously failed at building a protective system mandated by Congress -- the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers -- may be making some of the same mistakes in rebuilding that system.
He figured shots of this fused vaccine would prompt the immune system to create an army of antibodies motivated to sniff out and disable the virus in its exposed position during that crucial 30-minute period.
An important one is with BAE Systems, for whom Opnet does modeling, simulation and research for big initiatives like the U.S. Army's Future Combat System and the Joint Tactical Radio System.
With regard to the management culture, the Navy Department is by far the best run of the military departments, and it typically enjoys stronger support from the political system than the Air Force or the Army.
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An important one is with BAE Systems (other-otc: BAESF - news - people ), for whom Opnet does modeling, simulation and research for big initiatives like the U.S. Army's Future Combat System and the Joint Tactical Radio System.
The Afghan army, the first step in a possible cantonal system with strong central institutions, is making slow progress.
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The Met's founders wanted to create a democratic body that was "in tune with the people" and so deliberately avoided the two-tier system of recruitment that existed in the army.
Gary Haugen, a onetime United Nations investigator, has witnessed some of the most awful consequences of brutality, from the killing fields of Rwanda and the old South Africa's apartheid system to murders by the Philippine army.
The Army's main CREW system is the Warlock Duke, a vehicle- mounted radio jammer developed by Syracuse Research Corporation.
So he curbed or cancelled more than 30 weapons systems including the army's Future Combat System, the F-22 Stealth fighter, two missile defence systems and the Zumwalt-class destroyer.
The White House expects a major battle with lawmakers from both parties over Defense Secretary Robert Gates's effort to overhaul defense-procurement policies and cut short production on the F-22 advanced fighter jet and the Army's Future Combat System.
As the Iraqi army swept through the country, it built an elaborate system of fortifications, destroying the fragile desert ecosystem.
Friday is the last day they can submit proposals to the U.S. Army for the Common Infrared Countermeasures program, a system that may one day equip thousands of military helicopters with lasers that can jam the guidance of hostile heat-seeking missiles.
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This reflects not only Mr Saleh's lingering personal popularity, and the weight of a patronage system that extends beyond the large bureaucracy and army to tribal leaders and favoured businessmen, but also the widespread fear that the country is simply too fragile to cope with a transfer of power.
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Under his direction the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers developed a sophisticated system that mimicked the forces of nature.
The Crusader was scheduled to go into service in 2008 as the Army's next generation of mobile artillery to replace the aging Paladin system.
It will offer its manpack radio developed for the infantry with a few additional tweaks, since that system has already demonstrated it can provide what the Army wants in future vehicle radios.
In 2005, Target formed a partnership with the Salvation Army, creating an online donation system to help needy families.
In addition to the software, customers pay dearly for hardware, and for the army of Epic-certified technicians that needs to be deployed to get the system up and running.
And although the EU insists Galileo is for civilian use only, opponents suspect a hidden military agenda - that the system could be used to as a guidance system by a future EU army, independent from NATO.
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Pentagon policymakers pulled the plug on the Joint Tactical Radio System earlier this year, standing up a new Army-led organization and parceling out the various pieces to the services that will ultimately use the radios.
To this day Turkey's political and legal system bears the marks of years of army-guided secularism.
Mr. JESSE MILLER (Attorney, Reed Smith): Part of this system is designed to make sure that the Army is not paying benefits to soldiers that don't otherwise deserve them.
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