COLORADO SPRINGS Three large industry teams are preparing quick-response bids for the U.S. Air Force’s 15-year, $ 1.5-billion Integrated Space Command and Control contract, which eventually will give military space and theater commanders the ability to view a common picture of global-scale battlefields.

WASHINGTON The U.S. Air Force plans to drastically improve its ability to attack a foe with offensive information operations by assigning more people to the job and fielding new cyber weapons. At the same time, military commanders and Pentagon lawyers continue to wrestle with the legalities that govern computer network attacks.

Colorado Springs By the end of this week, a U.S. Air Force team will finish testing a suite of computers and communication links that make up a joint U.S./Russian center dedicated to ensuring Y2K bugs in both countries’ missile warning systems are not mistaken as attacks.