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Mary F. Rook has been named special agent in charge of the FBI's Anchorage Division.

Herbert Brown has been named special agent in charge of the FBI's Sacramento Division.

SIGNAL Magazine reader takes issue with effectiveness of new radios being introduced into operations in Afghanistan.

DeLorme, Yarmouth, Maine, has named Mike Heffron as president and chief executive officer.

If you are an enterprise technologist in or out of the Federal Government, please take time to watch the entire presentation below. It captures the entirety of the presentations and majority of the conversations at the White House Forum on Information Technology Management Reform. I recommend you watch the entire presentation for several reasons. If you are a student of IT and its governance, you will see what a good strategy looks like. If you are a student of federal policy, you will gain insights into what may be some of the most important shifts underway in the federal space today. If you are an integrator or technology vendor who served federal users you will learn a bit more about how your customer will be shifting in the future and how you can better position to help. And if you are an enterprise technologist you will learn of some very important things under way that will make your life easier and more productive.

Cloaking technology that could enable troops to hide in plain sight is still in the R&D stage. Advances made by the U.S. Army Research Lab and participating universities, however, mean the ability to achieve invisibility is no longer just within the purview of the Stealth fighter of years past. How far into the future will "cloaks of invisibility" become standard-issue gear? Are other organizations studying this capability and working to collaborate? Share your thoughts here.

SEDNA Digital Solutions, Manassas, Virginia, is being awarded a $14 million modification to a previously awarded contract to exercise an option for the production of AN/WLY-1 acoustic interception and

L-3 Communications Services Incorporated, Mt.

General Dynamics Electric Boat has been awarded a $7 million contract modification by the U.S. Navy to develop advanced submarine technologies for current and future undersea platforms.

The Air Combat Command is offering an information-sharing approach and visualization tool to facilitate decision making based on knowledge rather than available technology. As this strategy moves out, it will affect not only the U.S. Air Force but also the U.S. Defense Department and industry.