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The Commercial Activity Panel, formed to study issues on how the federal government decides what to outsource to the private sector, will hold its first public hearing June 11 in Washington. Details, including time and location, can be found through the Commercial Activity Panel link at the General Accounting Office Web site, .XXXSPLITXXX-Norman Data Defense Systems, a subsidiary of Norman ASA, Oslo, Norway, and PricewaterhouseCoopers of New York have entered a partnership to provide Norman's security solutions to PricewaterhouseCoopers clients in government and commercial sectors. John Rannenberg, a PricewaterhouseCoopers partner, said that information assurance is the fastest growing segment in the IT and security world. The systems integrator chose Norman "because their solutions lead the industry and will help us enhance the value of our client service," he said.XXXSPLITXXX-The Army Topographic Engineering Center is looking to award a task order for up to five years and worth $50 million, for a modeling and simulation research and development program. The Army wants to develop synthetic natural environment terrain databases for command, control, communications, computers and intelligence, and modeling and simulation activities.A copy of the solicitation can be found at . Questions regarding the contract may be directed to Helen Curlee, contract specialist, at (703) 428-6624. Proposals are due June 26.XXXSPLITXXX-The Naval Undersea Warfare Center in Newport, R.I., needs analysis, assessment, validation, integration, certification and product test planning for a range of combat systems.Tasks include software and hardware testing and evaluation, system engineering and providing planned documentation. This is a five-year task order for an estimated 600,000 hours of work, and is a small business set-aside vehicle. A copy of the solicitation can be obtained only at . The expected release date for the request for proposal is June 14; responses would be due July 31.