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DEFENSE WATCH

By Cal Biesecker

Monday, April 9th, 2012

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The Latest Word On Trends And Developments In Aerospace And Defense Underground NGEN Ads. An industry team competing for the lucrative contract for the next generation intranet for the Navy and Marine Corps has been peppering the Washington D.C. metro with ads touting its solution. The Computer Sciences Corp. and Harris Corp. advertisements about the Next Generation Enterprise Network (NGEN) can be spotted inside the blue and yellow line trains that run to the Pentagon. “We feel it’s getting pretty…

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