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Over the next few years, change is in store for the constellation of satellites that are the backbone of U.S. military communications.

Imagine the lives that could be saved in a combat zone if we could eliminate even one important item that needs to be resupplied almost daily.

The men and women who are designing and supporting today's military communications networks already have one important lesson learned from operations in Afghanistan, Iraq, the aftermath of the Japanese earthquake and tsunami, and others: No two network configurations are the same.

The reality of drastically reduced defense budgets married with the rapid pace of technological development could give warfighters a tactical radio system that has more in common with consumer smartphones.

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By the year 2020, Lt. Gen. Rhett A. Hernandez, USA, head of the U.S. Army Cyber Command, says threats from both nation states and other unknown actors will necessitate that the Army truly be an integrated cyberforce.

One of the biggest frustrations of the current IT environment for LTG Susan Lawrence, USA, Chief Information Officer/G-6 is finding her force "anchored in the industrial age" at a time when the Defense Department must get to the networked age, she said at today's lunch keynote address to the MILCOM 2011 conference.

Mae E. Devincentis has been assigned vice director, Defense Logistics Agency (DLA), Fort Belvoir, Virginia, Edward J.

The Boeing Company, Seattle, Washington, is being awarded a $9,994,101 contract modification to a cost-plus-fixed-fee delivery order against a previously issued basic ordering agreement for planning a

Northrop Grumman Systems Corporation, Integrated Systems Western Region, El Segundo, California, is being awarded a $12, 271,991 cost-plus-award-fee contract modification for the Multi Platform Radar