Defense Data Network

Component of the Defense Communications System used for switching Department of Defense automated data processing systems. Also called DDN. See also Defense Communications System; Defense Switched Network.

Dictionary of Military and Associated Terms. US Department of Defense 2005.

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Did you know that CHIPS became the first electronic magazine when an ASCII text edition was mailed over the Defense Data Network (DDN) to 250 host administrators in 1987--preceding the World Wide Web by seven years?

CHIPS 35th Anniversary--Dedicated to the Navy/Marine Corps Team

CAISI operates over existing military communications networks, that is, Mobile Subscriber Equipment, the Tri-Service Tactical Communications System, Defense Data Network, Defense-switching Network, U.S.

Financial Management Tactical Platform--a success story: how today's Army meets the finance support requirements of its warfighters

While all that was merrily bubbling away, more and more people in the know were demanding to be allowed to use a government funded system known variously as ARPANET, the Defense Data Network and, finally, the Internet.

NEW(S) MEDIA Metadirectories are key to keeping tabs on who's where "Time-sharing introduced the first hint of the madness that was to come"

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