bits & pieces

World Space is bidding on running Iraq's television and media network in partnership with 9 other firms. Read about it in WorldSpace Bids on $98 Million Deal to Rebuild Iraqi Media Network Basically, it's more satellite stuff worth about $98 million and due to be awarded in Jaunary 2004.

News from the DoD: The director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency, Stephen M. Younger, is leaving to return to the Theoretical Division of Los Alamos National Laboratory. Why is this significant? DTRA is the group responsible for looking for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Maybe this means there aren't any.