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Aviation Week To Launch Network-Centric Warfare Publication

Aviation Week Group, a division of The McGraw-Hill Companies, announced it will launch in January 2004 a new publication -- NetDefense -- a weekly news and intelligence service for network-centric operations leaders and decision-makers worldwide.

The potential of network-centric operations has become evident as a result of its use in combat actions in Afghanistan and Iraq. The concept is to use a broad array of information technologies to create a seamless network that can bring together all elements of a military force, from sensors to shooters, by creating a common picture of the battlefield.

NetDefense will seek to provide a "common operational picture" of network-centric operations that government officials and industry leaders can rely on as they work together to develop and employ new and effective defense and security systems for the 21st century. It will be the first news and information service to take a total 360-degree view of network-centric operations -- warfighters, air, land, sea and space platforms, sensors, precision-strike weapons and the information technologies that link them.

"NetDefense will cover current news, policy developments, programs and business opportunities across all defense and security applications of network-centric operations -- building on Aviation Week's 85 years of expertise in covering aerospace and defense," said Kenneth E. Gazzola, Aviation Week executive vice president/publisher. "Aviation Week is taking the lead on network-centric operations because we believe that those who create and use these promising but complex systems need an authoritative source of news and information devoted to the topic."

NetDefense will be available to subscribers weekly in print, on the Web, and via e-mail. It will include VIP distribution, sponsored by Lockheed Martin, to leaders in Congress, the Pentagon, White House and the Department of Homeland Security.

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