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The Naval Surface Warfare Center, Carderock Division, Philadelphia, has awarded a $17.3 million contract to Life Cycle Engineering (LCE), Charleston, South Carolina.

Until very recently, intelligence was a small, deeply secret aspect of public affairs. Terms like black chamber and secret service described functions that demanded to be performed but with little or no public notice. The name of the head of Britain's MI-6 was, as a remarkable reminder of this era, secret until very recent times. In the United States, the existence of the National Reconnaissance Office was classified until the 1990s, and we all know that the National Security Agency was often described, in jest but perhaps not fully in jest, as "No Such Agency."

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Integral Systems Incorporated, Colorado Springs, Colorado, and Columbia, Maryland, has received a $1.7 million U.S. Air Force Space and Missile Systems Center contract.

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems, Fairfax, Virginia, has been awarded an $18 million contract for U.S. Navy F/A-18 mission computers.

An exercise in leveraging social media for humanitarian assistance and disaster response fostered global participation last month, with more than 39,000 people from 94 nations tuning in to a simulation of two seismic events and a tsunami set in the Adriatic Sea. Participants in the exercise used tools such as Twitter and Facebook to create a rich, real-time environment for crowd-sourcing solutions and other collaborative activities.

Northrop Grumman Corporation, Los Angeles, has appointed Judy Perry Martinez vice president and chief compliance officer.

Injured warfighters, formerly relegated to desk jobs or early retirement, now may have a new lease on military life. Advanced prosthetics give these brave troops the option of returning to active service-a nearly foreign concept in previous wars.

Louis F. Quijas has been named assistant director of the FBI's new Office of Law Enforcement Coordination, Washington, D.C.