Baby Steps

Pentagon officials are keeping their cards close to their vests as they deliberate a strategy for combining the troubled Net-Enabled Command Capability program and the legacy Global Command and Control System family of systems, we're told. So far, officials have done "basically staff work" in the form of an overarching intergrated product team (OIPT), Defense Department spokeswoman Cheryl Irwin wrote in an Oct. 21 e-mail. She did not say when a meeting took place. A draft acquisition decision memorandum exists, but there's "nothing final at this time," she wrote.