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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded CSC a seven-year contract to provide information technology support.

"We have to understand that the changes in technology, computation and so forth have created what I call a fundamental change in our social atmosphere."--Adm. Thad W. Allen, USCG, commandant of the Coast Guard

"The principal point here is that it is the information we want to manage, not the technology. The technology should be transparent to the user."--Malcolm Green, chief of communication services, NC3A

Tony Montemarano, component acquisition executive, DISA, revealed that the agency is working on a campaign plan in which the word "convergence" is used time and time again.

Although it seems UAVs have been around for a long time-and are essential in current operations-the ground truth is that a number of challenges remain to be resolved before these aircraft can be used to their full potential.

Energy as a weapon and an enabler could dominate future battlefields, according to a recent war game that focused on military energy requirements. Participants in the 2009 war game, which had the theme “Future Energy Requirement on the Battlefield,” examined energy produced, packaged and used in novel ways to enable persistence.

Rather than thinking about how to improve what the U.S. government is doing, perhaps agencies-the U.S. Defense Department included-need to come at the problems from an entirely new direction-a very complex direction.

SIGNAL Magazine Executive Editor Maryann Lawlor is covering MILCOM '09 live from Boston. Click through to get a direct link to all the coverage from this important military communications conference.

Apptis Incorporated has won a contract valued at more than $28.4 million from the Defense Acquisition University (DAU).

Rockwell Collins has won a contract to provide a radar electronic support measures (R-ESM) suite for Germany's F125 special forces and