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The U.S. Navy will be using unmanned vehicles both in the air and underwater to a greater extent. These vehicles will provide valuable intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance (ISR) data and perform dangerous tasks such as mine clearance.

Better networks mean more opportunities for cyber marauders--and greater difficulty for network defense experts, noted Lt. Gen. Robert Schmidle, USMC, the deputy commander of the U.S. Cyber Command. He cited knowledge about network health, adversary space and "the gray area in between" as the criteria for successful cyber situational awareness, but he also warned of personnel structure shortcomings.

The U.S. Defense Department's Joint Information Enterprise (JIE), launched by the Joint Chiefs of Staff Operational Deputies, will be built on "five big rocks," according to the assistant to the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff. Vice Adm. Harry B. Harris Jr., USN, told the audience at the AFCEA NOVA Naval IT Day on May 3 that big rocks must serve as the foundation so that little rocks can be implemented atop them.

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Raytheon Integrated Defense Systems, Sudbury, Massachusetts, is being awarded a $15,485,267 cost-plus-award-fee, firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for the Surveillance Radar Program.

Northrop Grumman Space and Missions Systems Corporation, San Jose, California, is being awarded a $10,360,820 firm-fixed-price modification contract to procure spare hardware to support the Airborne S

TASC Incorporated, Andover, Massachusetts, is being awarded a $9,600,001 cost-plus-fixed-fee and level of effort modification contract to continue space control arch

Lockheed Martin Corporation, Newtown, Pennsylvania, is being awarded an $8,403,514 fixed-price incentive firm contract for on-orbital operations support of the GPS IIR/IIR-M satellite constellation.