TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
01/27/12 02:00 pm ET
The Air Force will continue to buy a new specialized version of the Northrop Grumman Global Hawk unmanned surveillance aircraft despite plans announced yesterday by the Defense Department to cancel older versions and use manned U-2s instead, Air Force Chief of Staff Norton Schwartz...>>
01/26/12 02:16 pm ET
San Diego -- The Navy has a whole bunch of ships -- 286 of them -- loaded with a mess of computer and communications gadgets, but the service's top network guy has no clear idea of what kinds of gizmos have been installed on...>>
01/25/12 04:02 pm ET
The Air Force decided to not buy any more high flying Global Hawk unmanned surveillance aircraft and instead plans to keep manned U-2s in operation through 2020, Reuters reported. This will leave the Air Force with a fleet of 21 Global Hawks, which cost...>>
01/24/12 04:40 pm ET
San Diego -- The Navy has heard the growing demand for smartphones and mobile computers. Rear Adm. Jerry Burroughs, program executive officer for command, control, computers, communications and intelligence at the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command said he's listening and indicated the gadgets...>>
01/23/12 05:28 pm ET
The Veterans Affairs Department said it accidentally released the records of 2,200 living veterans to Ancestry.com in response to a Freedom of Information Act request last month, a data dump that included social security numbers. The family history website, which provides access to genealogical...>>
01/20/12 11:21 am ET
The Army released yesterday what amounts to a well-thought-out guidebook on how to care for and manage troops after eleven years of constant combat in Iraq and Afghanistan. The 211-page report and the work that went into it was spearheaded by Vice Chief of...>>
01/19/12 05:57 pm ET
Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff Gen. Martin Dempsey on Tuesday released a new operational concept that reinforces the importance of space and cyberspace to military operations, a point emphasized in the new Defense strategy announced by President Obama and Defense Secretary Leon...>>
01/18/12 01:35 pm ET
I have confirmed that AHLTA, the Defense Department's electronic health record system, experienced an "enterprise-wide" shutdown that lasted most of the day Tuesday. AHLTA provides electronic records for 9.6 million active duty personnel, retirees and their families, and I'm told the failure of the...>>
01/17/12 06:16 pm ET
XM Radio seems to be following the disastrous customer relations strategy executed last year by Netflix. Last week, it shifted its folk music channel, The Village, from satellite to Internet-only and decided to charge customers more for this "upgrade." In case you missed it,...>>
01/13/12 02:08 pm ET
The Defense Information Systems Agency awarded SAIC a $7.5 million, 12-month sole source contract to continue to support the Joint Global Command and Control System (GCCS-J), according to what seems to me a deliberately obscure FedBizOpps notice posted Wednesday. The description of the award...>>
