And the Best Acronym Award Goes To...

• Position: IN BRIEF

* The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency's Strategic Technology Office Director Phil Root all but admitted that there is some sort of informal contest out there for the best Defense Department acronym.

At the DARPA Forward conference at Colorado State University, he introduced the GECCO or generating communications channels to operate program, pronounced like the lizard.

But he relished talking about the Space-BACN program--pronounced "Space Bacon," a follow-on to the terrestrial BACN program, the battlefield airborne communications...