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All politics is local as U.S. Navy special forces seek to deny the Taliban influence village by village.

Sophisticated tracking and communications capabilities rapidly installed on military platforms in the Middle East helped U.S. and coalition commanders in Afghanistan and Iraq slice through the fog of war with near-real-time situational awareness. Blue force tracking technology provides information about the location of friendly and enemy forces as well as terrain and danger zones such as mine fields. Equipment installed on a variety of platforms continues to allow mission leaders, commanders and warfighters in locations from the Pentagon to the battlefield to see the same picture of and elements in the battlespace like pieces on a chessboard.

Engineering Services Network Incorporated, Arlington, Virginia, has named Douglas R. Lopez director of Fleet Support Services.

SRC Incorporated, Syracuse, New York, has named Gary Sauer vice president of Business Development.

The Navy must make do with fewer submarines, but new designs may help mitigate the effects of those reductions.

Smaller and faster with proper support are the means for delivering new systems that will support the fleet for long-term uses.

Changes are afoot in Korea as an unpredictable new leader in the North challenges a powerful South army that will take control of its own defense in three years.

Cost versus risk is a balancing act with no metrics for quantifying effectiveness.

For the defense community, less may not be more, but it must be enough.

Insitu Incorporated, Bingen, Washington, is being awarded a $21,048,058 modification to a previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to exercise an option for op