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The Defense Department's FY 2012 budget proposal features $2.3 billion for improved cyber capabilities, according to figures released this afternoon. Key elements of that funding include $0.5 billion for the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to invest in cyber technologies. Funding also will be provided to the Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) for cyber identity, monitoring and enforcement.

As criminals turn to clandestine methods of entry into the United States, leaders in the maritime domain are working overtime to minimize threats by increasing data-sharing capabilities.

Charles Stark Draper Laboratories Incorporated, Cambridge, Massachusetts, is being awarded a more than $57 million firm-fixed-price, fixed-price-incentive contract

APIC Corporation, Culver City, California, recently announced that it has received a U.S.

ThalesRaytheonSystems Company has been awarded a $5 million contract to demonstrate a Common Aviation Command and Control System (CAC2S) prototype system for the U.S. Marine Corps.

Harris Corporation has received a $9 million order from the U.S. Army for high-frequency radios for use in the Army's Joint Biological Point Detection System (JBPDS).

Rear Adm. Brian L. Losey, USN, has been assigned commander, Special Operations Command, U.S. Africa Command, Stuttgart, Germany.

Rear Adm. Scott P. Moore, USN, has been assigned deputy chief for operations, Office of Defense Representative-Pakistan, U.S.

Harris Corporation, Washington, D.C., has named Bret Kinsella vice president of commercial market development for its Commercial Managed