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Lt. Gen. Frank Kearney III, USA, deputy commander of U.S.

Vice Adm. Nancy Brown, USN, director, J6, The Joint Staff, provided an overview of Global Information Grid (GIG) 2.0, an effort to reduce barriers to information sharing. With cyber now an official warfighting domain, the military has to figure out how to navigate in that domain where networks are platforms and information is a payload. Adm. Brown says there are too many networks and GIG 2.0 is a framework to bring together service intranets to act as one global network.

Rita Boland covers TechNet Tampa 2009 here: http://www.afcea.org/signal/signalscape/index.php/tag/technettampa09/

BAE Systems has received a contract from the U.S.

Raytheon Company has been awarded a $71.6 million firm-fixed-price (Letter Contract Modification)

General Atomics Aeronautical Systems Incorporated has received a $35 million cost-plus-incentive-fee definitization of a letter

Lockheed Martin Missile and Fires Control has been awarded a $14.6 million firm-fixed-price

GE Aviation Systems LLC is being awarded a $12 million ceiling-priced indefinite delivery, indefinite quantity

Scientific Research Corporation is being awarded a $6.5 million modification to a

Christopher Dorobek, writing in this month's Incoming column, addresses a major question for public managers: Just what is the best way to manage in the public sector? During the 1990s, many government agencies were trying valiantly to put performance standards into place, and took many cues from the private sector. But as Dorobek notes in Ending Government's Private-Sector Envy, government is very different from private industry.