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Just before News Years I was conversing with you that Iran, Pakistan, and North Korea are nation states that demand Intelligence Community (IC) focus in 2012 to insure against strategic surprise. Since that penetrating analysis of the obvious, all three have continued to earn IC attention. Kim Jong Eun has assumed his father's leadership of North Korea because any other choice remains destabilizing to the North Korean elites, China, Japan and I suspect South Korea. In Pakistan there are rumblings that the army is trying remove President Asif Ali Zardari without a coup so it can have more pliable civilian leadership to deal with while the CIA has suspended drone attacks. Iran, of course, has threatened to close the Strait of Hormuz in response to increasing US sanctions for Tehran not curtailing its nuclear program. Given my amazing "clairvoyance" I am sure you are wondering what other "evitable surprises" I see the IC having to deal with over the course of the new year, so here are a half a dozen to mull over.

Lockheed Martin Corporation, Space System Company, Newtown, Pennsylvania, is being awarded a $21,571,340 cost-plus-incentive-fee with award fee and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract to procure a launch che

Raytheon Company, El Segundo, California, is being awarded an $11 million cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for robust navigation technology supporting anti-jam Global Positioning System (GPS) development

QinetiQ North America, McLean, Virginia, has appointed Jerry Hogge senior vice president of business development.

MTN Satellite Communications, Miramar, Florida, has appointed Errol Olivier president and chief executive officer.

The Responsive Mission Support Solutions business unit of Salient Federal Solutions Incorporated, Fairfax, Virginia, has appointed Lt.

A recently released draft plan provides a road map for federal agencies and industry to navigate through the development of the cloud-computing model.

Lockheed Martin Missiles and Fire Control, Orlando, Florida, was awarded a $66,619,041 firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for AH-64D Apache modernized target acquisition designation sig

BAE Systems, Nashua, New Hampshire, was awarded a $12,290,244 firm-fixed-price and cost-plus-fixed-fee contract for T-Pod Systems on the MQ-1C Unmanned Aircraft System. The U.S.

DRS Systems Incorporated, Parsippany, New Jersey, was awarded an estimated $40,218,000 five-year indefinite-delivery/indefinite-quantity contract with firm-