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Most service personnel are motivated by a sense of duty to their country, but their services must continue to focus on quality of life-personal as well as professional. These points were driven home in a panel focusing on what it takes to keep people in uniform.

Northrop Grumman Corporation has been awarded a $16 million contract from the U.S.

Raytheon Company has received a $246 million Foreign Military Sales contract for Patriot system spares for the United Arab Emir

Dynamics Research Corporation (DRC) has been awarded a $3.3 million contract from t

Alion Science and Technology has won a task order valued at nearly $3 million to perform technical task

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has been awarded an Energy Savings Performance Contract by the U.S.

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Much remains to be done even though the U.S. Navy has reconstituted its fleet response plan to suit a new era in which is must do more in less time, said Adm. Jonathan W. Greenert, USN, commander of the U.S. Fleet Forces Command.

The only way to defeat improvised explosive devices (IEDs) is to treat them as strategic weapons, says Lt. Gen. Thomas F. Metz, USA, director, Joint Improvised Explosive Device Defeat Organization (JIEDDO). And, with that approach, networking may be the key enabler. "We are in a long war against extremists," the general stated, and he described in blunt terms the atrocities these extremists commit against innocent people, particularly women. This will be a long fight against an enemy whose weapon of choice is the IED.