TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
02/08/10 02:28 pm ET
Like many of my generation (I turned 66 on Monday), I grew up with the works of J.D. Salinger, not only The Catcher in the Rye, but his short stories in The New Yorker, which I subscribed to for years, including when I was in the Marine Corps.>>
02/08/10 01:35 pm ET
Jungle fatigues are not the best clothing for 26-plus inches of snow, but the Three Soldiers at the Vietnam Memorial seemed to weather the weather well on Sunday, in this picture taken by my pal Joe Mancinik, a Navy veteran attending The George Washington University, whom I mentor.>>
02/05/10 04:01 pm ET
One of the most tantalizing lines buried in the fiscal 2011 budget request for the Defense Information Systems Agency is a $102.8 million single item for a Senior Leadership Enterprise communications system.>>
02/04/10 05:33 pm ET
Yesterday I reported that the White House plans to tap Teri Takai, chief information officer for California, as the new Defense Department CIO.>>
02/04/10 05:08 pm ET
I interviewed about 10 people Inside The Beltway on Wednesday and Thursday from my office here in The Original Las Vegas, N.M., and before we addressed the topic I wanted to discuss, each and every one of my interviewees felt the need to tell me a tale of woe about snows, past, present and future.>>
02/03/10 05:50 pm ET
I'm picking up very strong signals that the White House has started to vet Teri Takai, who has served as the California's chief information officer for the past two years, as the next CIO of the Defense Department. >>
02/02/10 05:50 pm ET
The New York Times rather breathlessly reported during the past weekend that in 2007 the head of British intelligence warned businesses in England that Chinese intelligence agencies were engaged in a wide ranging effort to hack into their computers.>>
02/02/10 11:42 am ET
As more than one kind reader pointed out, I erred on Monday when I said Congress has yet to pass the 2010 VA Appropriations Bill. >>
02/01/10 05:06 pm ET
President Obama has proposed a $3.3 billion information technology budget for the Veterans Affairs Department in fiscal 2011, the same as the record VA IT budget in fiscal 2010. This must make Roger Baker, the department's chief information officer, the most sought after canasta partner in all of Washington.>>
01/29/10 04:23 pm ET
When the U.S. Southern Command needed a whole mess of radios to support folks engaged in Haitian relief operations, it turned to the National Interagency Fire Center in Boise, Idaho.>>
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