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The U.S. Coast Guard is looking at a variety of options for adding maritime versions of unmanned air vehicles (UAVs) to its sea assets. These vehicles would be used to maintain persistent presence in remote ocean areas.

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) has opened its Shredder Challenge to find better ways to piece together shredded documents that troops discover in warzones.

The nation's critical infrastructure, long a potential target of cybermarauders, now faces even greater threats--ironically because of the very information technologies on which it depends for better efficiency of operation.

Network situational awareness, largely the purview of military systems, may be the best line of defense against cybermarauders threaten the nation's critical infrastructure.

Airpower dominated the 20th century, but cyberpower will dominate the 21st century. Change is outstripping conventional patterns as technologies race capabilities.

If the space-based global positioning system (GPS) were to go down, the Joint Aerial Layer Network might be able to fill in to provide timing and navigation in theater during military operations.

Linda Metz has joined Mission Essential Personnel LLC, Chantilly, Virginia, as vice president for Contracts and Procurement.

The Boeing Company, Arlington, Virginia, has named Dewey Houck vice president and general manager of the company's Information Sol

L-3 Communications Flight International, Newport News, Virginia, is being awarded a $29,066,774 contract modification for airborne threat simulation training for shipboard and aircraft squadron weapon

The telecommunications industry will see minimal growth this year in the wake of several large corporate bankruptcies and massive network overcapacity. Major issues such as mismanagement must be addressed to regain the trust of shareholders and government oversight agencies, analysts say. Sales of hardware will lag behind services as disillusionment settles in about the industry's performance. But a silver lining remains-the continuing growth of services such as broadband and wireless messaging.