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Lockheed Martin Corporation, Archbold, Pennsylvania, and Raytheon Missile Systems of Tucson, Arizona, are being awarded a $475 million firm-fixed-price contract for Paveway II laser-guided bomb comput

S4 Incorporated, Burlington, Massachusetts, has hired Jay Davis as director of programs for the Colorado Springs, Colorado, region.

Pragmatics, Reston, Virginia, has appointed Joseph Miller vice president and general manager of the company's Civilia

SRC Incorporated, Syracuse, New York, has promoted Robert Alger to product account director, ground-based sense-and-avoid systems.

PPI, Ashburn, Virginia, has hired Joseph P. Brady as executive vice president of business development.

A small business innovation research (SBIR) program is allowing U.S. Army researchers to generate on-the-move satellite links that would take advantage of the greater data rates available from military communications satellites. A recent demonstration at Aberdeen Proving Ground, Maryland, proved the worth of this approach for transmitting and receiving vital situational awareness data and command and control messages.

Speak and instantly see your words transcribed into text or email messages. These voice recognition programs create messages five times faster than typing on a keyboard.

Necessity may be the mother of invention, but in Afghanistan’s eastern region, the need to connect dismounted soldiers to the network has prompted a mother lode of innovation. The forbidding area is unlike any other part of Afghanistan, according to U.S. Army officials. With mountains more than 20,000 feet high, much of the tough terrain is not traversable with ground vehicles, making dismounted operations a must in the area. Connecting those dismounted troops to the network is a critical necessity, which is why Army officials are experimenting with a host of prototypes designed to put dismounted soldiers on the digital map. Those systems include the Distributed Tactical Communications System, the Broadband Global Area Network satellite terminal and the Panther satellite communications system.

NATO is reinforcing cybersecurity for its entire communications and information systems architecture and on all of its networks, including unclassified, restricted and secret networks. The project will be implemented in several phases and is speeding toward completion by the end of 2012, a challenging deadline that NATO officials say they are determined to meet.