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The U.S. Army is developing a network-centric system to connect and manage its air defense systems. The capability will provide commanders with a dynamic, real-time picture of the battlespace through shared data feeding into the network. Dynamic software will permit warfighters to establish defenses quickly by selecting available weapons batteries and sensors across a theater of operations and linking them into a combat mission.

It is not often that government leadership discusses the importance of system engineering or complex system management, but major setbacks for the U.S. Coast Guard's $24 billion Deepwater program are casting a shadow over the use of lead system integrators on other U.S. Defense Department acquisitions. These setbacks also are highlighting the lack of government system engineering knowledge.

Network Eccentricity Imperils the Infosphere By Col. Alan D. Campen, USAF (Ret.)

Total System Engineering May Save Defense Programs By Cmdr. Gregory E. Glaros, USN (Ret.)

Five Myths of Cyberspace and Cyberpower by Lt. Col. Forrest B. Hare, USAF

Scientists Design Sensor-Embedded Insects By Clarence A. Robinson Jr.

The role of a relatively small defense agency operating from a high-rise office building not far from the Pentagon is to color outside the lines. This entrepreneurial organization has done that for 50 years and in the process has become a driving force in academia, industry and the military with one scientific breakthrough after another. The agency's technology advances continue to change the way the United States conducts warfare with startling battlefield triumphs.