Search

The Senate on Dec. 22 confirmed the appointment of Dr. Jonathan Woodson as assistant secretary of Defense for health affairs (http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2010/04/woodson_tapped_for_top_doc.php), a nomination that had been on hold since August. [...]

Secretary of Defense Robert Gates late Wednesday released a statement (http://www.defense.gov/releases/release.aspx?releaseid=14144) urging Congress to pass an omnibus spending bill to fund the department for the rest of fiscal 2011, rather [...]

The Senate Appropriations Committee on Tuesday approved a $3.16 billion information technology (http://appropriations.senate.gov/news.cfm?method=news.view&id=acfd0a5e-c822-431f-9f5b-dba97ca14e9a) budget for the Veterans Affairs Department in its 1,924-page omnibus spending bill (http://appropriations.senate.gov/news.cfm?method=news.view&id=9ac3518e-7e19-4328-bf52-16a6c2a1d333) -- $144.5 million less [...]

While House lawmakers on Wednesday froze the 2011 budgets of most agencies at 2010 levels in a catchall funding bill, they approved the Homeland Security Department's 2011 budget request for [...]

The Army has launched its own secure version of YouTube that is open to all Defense Department personnel. Dubbed milTube, it allows sharing of videos behind a network firewall and [...]

The Navy named Terry Halvorsen, a career cyber security and network warfare expert, as the department's chief information officer, effective Monday. Read the full story on Nextgov.com. [...]

A Veterans Affairs Department claims examiner used a personal unencrypted thumb drive to store records on veterans that included Social Security numbers and then lost the drive. In another instance, [...]

Though intelligence agencies intercepted e-mails between Army Maj. Nidal Hasan and a radical Muslim cleric a year before he went on a violent rampage and killed 13 people at Fort [...]

The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has launched a $20 million project to leverage commercial technologies for development of Advanced Wireless Networks for the Soldier, which will serve as both [...]

Gen. Peter Chiarelli, the Army's vice chief of staff, wields his smart phone with the technological savvy of soldiers far younger during an interview, and envisions a not-so-distant future where [...]

The Army needs to hire civilian employees faster, offer more defined career paths and improve training, a top official said during a conference on Wednesday in Washington. Undersecretary Joseph Westphal, [...]

This year's drawdown of troops stationed in Iraq has allowed the Army to get off a treadmill of constant combat deployments, the service's chief of staff said on Monday. Troops [...]

A host of weather-related groups around the globe strongly oppose (http://fjallfoss.fcc.gov/ecfs/comment_search/execute?proceeding=10-123) the Obama administration's plans to reallocate spectrum weather satellites use to commercial cellular carriers in support of the National [...]

The Army has spent much of this year developing mobile applications for smart phones on an ad hoc basis and now wants to formalize the development process. The service's main [...]

The Defense Department should create an incentive program to lure information technology acquisition professionals from industry and establish a defined career path for them, according to an internal briefing (http://www.govexec.com/pdfs/101510wb1.ppt) [...]

At a press briefing Wednesday, top Navy network officials said they would run five procurements to replace the decade-old Navy Marine Corps Intranet contract, which expired at the end of [...]

The Army Corps of Engineers awarded a $1.2 billion contract on Sept. 24 to a consortium of construction companies to build a massive data center for the National Security Agency [...]

The Naval Sea Systems Command decided it didn't make sense to create one set of contract specifications for lawn mowing services at a base on the East Coast and another [...]

The Veterans Affairs Department awarded IBM a contract in July to develop within three months a system to process claims for veterans suffering from diseases related to the Vietnam-era chemical [...]

The Veterans Affairs Department has deployed a fully automated system to process benefits for veterans attending college under the 2008 GI bill just in time to manage the enrollment for [...]

The National Institutes of Health kicked off on Tuesday one of the largest information technology procurements in the federal government: a 10-year governmentwide Chief Information Officer-Solutions and Partners 3 contract [...]

After more than a decade of delays, the Air Force launched an advanced satellite on Aug. 14 to provide jam-proof communications for nuclear forces, but the service is rethinking its [...]

The Coast Guard, Customs and Border Protection and Air Force choreographed a complex aerial ballet of more than 23,000 aircraft missions during the government's response to the oil spill in [...]

The Veterans Affairs Department has adopted a standard identifier for all veterans to use in all its systems, including one to build electronic health records that will follow them from [...]

The Military Health System on Aug. 5 abruptly transferred its chief information officer to a temporary assignment at the Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information [...]

The federal government delayed by five weeks deploying high-tech sensors that could accurately measure the how much oil was spewing out of the BP well in the Gulf of Mexico [...]

The Veterans Affairs Department faces a wave of more than a million new disability claims this year, a workload compounded by delays in developing automated systems to process them, department [...]

The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration launched a slick and data-rich website on Monday that the public can use to monitor the Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. Read the full [...]

To support the federal response to the oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, the Naval Oceanographic Office has deployed sensor systems to monitor surface currents and measure physical properties [...]

The Senate Appropriations Committee denied a $400 million emergency request from the Defense Department group that disarms improvised mines, a move that effectively turns off the funding spigot for neutralizing [...]

Today's soldiers on special force teams require a lot of electrical power, so much so that they need to tote as much as 40 pounds of batteries onto the battlefield [...]

A laptop belonging to a contractor working for the Veterans Affairs Department was stolen earlier this year and the personal data on hundreds of veterans stored on the computer was [...]

Researchers at Wake Forest University have found a way to use everyday ink-jet printers to quickly create skin for soldiers with life-threatening burns from the battlefield. Read the full story [...]

The Veterans Affairs Department discovered on Tuesday that the software bugs that led to instances of doctors receiving the wrong patient data when they accessed electronic medical information shared with [...]

Shortly after a volcano in Iceland erupted on April 14 grounding thousands of flights and their passengers in Europe, Air Force weather forecasters fired up a computer model to determine [...]

Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., said on Thursday the operations of drug cartels along the U.S.-Mexico border are tantamount to war and urged a top military commander to deploy high-tech military [...]

The Senate plans to hold a hearing on Thursday to consider the long-delayed nomination of Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander, director of the National Security Agency, as commander of the [...]

WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. -- Army officials said on Thursday they have been impressed by early tests at this sprawling 3,200-square-mile base of an advanced radio that is designed [...]

The Defense Information Systems Agency issued a request for information on Tuesday for an integrated technology contract that would provide the Defense Department with a range of support services that [...]

Space might not yet have Washington Beltway-style traffic jams, but with more than 21,000 objects in orbit it's becoming crowded, creating what the Defense Department terms a new urgency to [...]

The historic health care reform bill President Obama signed into law on Tuesday calls for development of states' health care exchanges that eventually will allow Americans to compare insurance through [...]

Insurgents in Afghanistan obtained more than two years ago several U.S. systems the military uses to jam signals that detonate improvised explosive devices, and they might have passed them on [...]

The Army and Air Force have begun to use computer systems to better manage the medical evacuation of troops wounded on the battlefields in Afghanistan and Iraq, including a data [...]

The Army announced on March 5 plans to consolidate its myriad e-mail systems and then outsource its operation in a procurement that the service said will improve effectiveness, enhance security [...]

The Army kicked off its Apps for the Army competition this week to tap undiscovered abilities of, what the Army's chief information officer called, the 'digital natives' who now are [...]

The U.S. Strategic Command approved limited use of flash media such as thumb drives on Feb. 18, but the Air Force and Army still ban the devices. Read the full [...]

The Veterans Affairs Department announced on Tuesday that it will apply a strict development program that was originally designed for only information technology projects that are severely behind schedule and [...]

If snow-covered roads in the Washington metropolitan area continue to frustrate commuting on Tuesday and later this week, the Defense Information Systems Agency's workforce can continue to do its job [...]

In his fiscal 2011 budget proposal released on Monday, President Obama listed ways information technology can trim -- albeit slightly -- the record $1.6 trillion deficit, including agencies signing more [...]

When the 2010 Winter Olympics opens in Vancouver, B.C., in February, teams from 70 federal, state and local agencies will oversee safety measures on the U.S. side of its border [...]