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Christopher Dorobek, writing in this month's Incoming column, addresses a major question for public managers: Just what is the best way to manage in the public sector? During the 1990s, many government agencies were trying valiantly to put performance standards into place, and took many cues from the private sector. But as Dorobek notes in Ending Government's Private-Sector Envy, government is very different from private industry.

BAE Systems has received a contract from the U.S.

Raytheon Company has been awarded a $71.6 million firm-fixed-price (Letter Contract Modification)

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Incorporated has received a $35 million cost-plus-incentive-fee definitization of a letter

Lockheed Martin Missile and Fires Control has been awarded a $14.6 million firm-fixed-price

GE Aviation Systems LLC is being awarded a $12 million ceiling-priced indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity

Scientific Research Corporation is being awarded a $6.5 million modification to a

Northrop Grumman Corporation is developing a robust, radiation-hardened, wireless spacecraft bus under a $4.1 million

The networked world is beginning to discover that sharing is not always beneficial. Marauders always have been the bane of cyberspace, but now a new set of threats has emerged to imperil more than just the usual targets. Ordinary citizens now are menaced by sophisticated organizations seeking to damage society or to loot it of its funds-or both. And, as always, the network-centric military is under assault by increasingly frequent and effective cyberagents operating under foreign government control.