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Energy as a weapon and an enabler could dominate future battlefields, according to a recent war game that focused on military energy requirements. Participants in the 2009 war game, which had the theme “Future Energy Requirement on the Battlefield,” examined energy produced, packaged and used in novel ways to enable persistence.

Rather than thinking about how to improve what the U.S. government is doing, perhaps agencies-the U.S. Defense Department included-need to come at the problems from an entirely new direction-a very complex direction.

SIGNAL Magazine Executive Editor Maryann Lawlor is covering MILCOM '09 live from Boston. Click through to get a direct link to all the coverage from this important military communications conference.

Apptis Incorporated has won a contract valued at more than $28.4 million from the Defense Acquisition University (DAU).

Rockwell Collins has won a contract to provide a radar electronic support measures (R-ESM) suite for Germany's F125 special forces and

The stars were out this morning as Lt. Gen. Dennis Via, USA, director, C4 systems, J-6, the Joint Staff, kicked off today's MILCOM 2009 activities.

"The reality is that the world has already converged out from under us and gone in this direction." --David Mihelcic, CTO, DISA

"When I look at our adversaries around the world, what I see is that we can no longer kid ourselves into believing that we face challenges that will be easily boxed based on regions and categories."--The Honorable Michael Chertoff

Many of the technologies currently in use on the battlefield began as research and development programs that seemed incredible when they began.

We're starting a new feature here at SIGNAL Scape: a weekly post focusing on cool apps. Our inaugural post features an app for you multitasking on-the-go folks: Torch Project Management.