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To support its global operations, the U.S. Marine Corps is relying on a tactical communications system linked by satellites to theater and national headquarters. Several mobile tactical systems and an innovative space-based networking capability are providing warfighters with reliable, high-bandwidth communications wherever they deploy.

The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) set out to complete its National Emergency Communications Plan (NECP) within 18 months of publishing the final version. Instead, by January 2010—the halfway point—the OEC had completed 80 percent of the plan’s milestones and was well on its way to finishing the final 20 percent long before the deadline.

An advanced, indigenous base is building many of the country’s military enablers.

This month's SIGNAL Connections survey asks readers to weigh in with the main reason they joined AFCEA.

SIGNAL Magazine and AFCEA extend heartfelt sympathies to the Polish people for the loss of President Lech Kaczynski, Gen.

Rear Adm. Thomas C. Traaen, USN, has received appointment as commander, Defense Distribution Center, Defense Logistics Agency, Fort Belvoir, Virginia.

Gloria A. Flach has been elected corporate vice president and president of the Enterprise Shared Services organization of Northrop Grumman Corporation, Los Angeles.

Even as government 2.0 advocates hailed the U.S. Defense Department's newly framed social media policy upon its announcement, questions persisted over the value of such a policy in the wake of cybersecurity threats. But Sumit Agarwal, who was named deputy assistant secretary of defense (public affairs) for outreach and social media in January, says that with so many people using social media on their own, enforcing a closed posture on these tools may be as ill-advised as not doing so.