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STEAL A NOTEBOOK Computer from McKesson Corp. and you may be surprised to find that the data on its hard drive has self-destructed in your hands. 'We have a security […]

Byline: Bob Brewin In August 2010, President Obama told veterans they soon would be able to go to the Veterans Affairs Department website, 'click a simple blue button, download or [...]

Byline: Bob Brewin, Joseph Marks, and Kedar Pavgi CIA's Virus Trouble The Government Accountability Office found that the CIA gave Amazon an unfair advantage when it agreed to weaken security [...]

Byline: Bob Brewin Ffederal agencies are facing substantial outlays to manage mobile computing devices as they shift from a culture of PCs and laptops to smartphones and tablets. But there [...]

Byline: Bob Brewin The military's policy for supplying combat troops with psychotropic drugs is damaging the force, critics say. After surviving two tours in Iraq, 21-year-old Marine Cpl. Chad Oligschlaeger, [...]

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 [...]