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U.S. Marine Corps aviation technology goes one better than just pulling a "180" in the area of improvement-it goes straight for a 360-degree turnabout in operational readiness.

U.S. Marines are tasked with battling enemies in any environment or domain and increasingly that location is cyberspace. Information assurance officials around the Corps are striving to ensure the reliability and trustworthiness of the service’s systems, and though they are aware of the potential for attack from the outside, misuse from the inside is a more prevalent concern.

U.S. Marine commanders soon will have a new mobile command and control capability that will be readily transferable from vehicle to vehicle without mounting or installation modifications. This new system is being created primarily from cost-effective, off-the-shelf digital communications equipment.

A modernized aviation command and control system for the U.S. Marine Corps likely will be deployed to Afghanistan before the year is out. The new system provides a common aviation command and control platform and is expected to improve situational awareness and information assurance while making the Marine Corps fighting forces more mobile.

The U.S. Marine Corps is testing a set of systems that would enhance communications between air assets and boots on the ground. Troops in Okinawa used the technology initially during U.S.-only evaluations before moving on to experiments in various multinational events. And though the personnel who have experienced the systems in action say work still remains to perfect the offering, they would like to see it fielded if it reaches its potential.

Harris Corporation, Lynchburg, Virginia, is being awarded a firm-fixed-price, indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity base year contract plus four options years with a possible maximum value of $49 mi

Northrop Grumman Information Technology, McLean, Virginia, is being awarded an $11,607,556 task order under previously awarded firm-fixed-price contract to exercise option year one for Computer Networ

Lockheed Martin Corporation, Liverpool, New York, is being awarded a $6,874,340 contract modification to a previously awarded contract for the continued contractor engineering technical support (CETS)

Smiths Detection Incorporated, Edgewood, Maryland, is being awarded a potential $12,708,242 firm-fixed-price, cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for production of three Meteorological Mobile Facility (Repla

Lockheed Martin Gyrocam Systems L.L.C., Sarasota, Florida, and FLIR Systems Incorporated, North Billerica, Massachusetts, are each being awarded a commercial, firm-fixed-priced, indefinite-delivery/in