TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
09/30/09 05:39 pm ET
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki announced that starting on Friday veterans who have not yet received their GI bill payments for school tuition and housing will be able to apply online off the VA's Web site, which also has further details on the emergency payment program.>>
09/30/09 12:46 pm ET
As I reported yesterday, a draft of a new Defense Department social network policy that made its way to the Whats HQ in Las Vegas, N.M., will allow troops to Twitter away on Defense networks almost unfettered as long as they follow a few simple rules. >>
09/29/09 05:14 pm ET
I've picked up low to medium strength signals that Debra Filippi, the Defense Department's information sharing executive, has emerged as a likely candidate to run the joint interagency program office in charge of sharing information -- including electronic health information -- between the Defense and the Veterans Affairs Department. >>
09/28/09 05:18 pm ET
The Defense and the Veterans Affairs departments are supposed to achieve full interoperability of their electronic health record systems come Wednesday. The meshing of the systems was mandated by the 2008 National Defense Authorization Act. I hear the joint Defense/VA interagency program office is working right up to the deadline.>>
09/24/09 05:30 pm ET
Top officials of the Veterans Affairs Department revised the figures they put out yesterday on payments it has made to veterans under the post-9/11 GI bill, and said that of today, only 24,186 vets have received checks, or roughly 12 percent of the 200,000 claims it expected to receive by the end of the summer.>>
09/23/09 04:35 pm ET
Remember when libraries were cathedrals of quiet, a bygone era when even a whispered conversation resulted in a stern look from a no-nonsense librarian?>>
09/22/09 05:10 pm ET
After 31 years of service, Dr. Rob Kolodner, National Health IT coordinator from 2006 until this year -- and before that a 28 year stint at the Veterans Affairs Department capped by a tour as chief health informatics officer in Veterans Health Administration -- retires from the federal nest today.>>
09/21/09 04:59 pm ET
Well-informed folks have told me that William Schoenhard, who until this August served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of St. Louis-based SSN Health Care has the inside track as the new head of the Veterans Health Administration. >>
09/18/09 04:23 pm ET
I'm picking up strong signals that the Veterans Affairs Department has started contacting colleges and universities around the country to determine whether or not they will throw veterans off campus if the schools do not receive timely tuition payments as promised under the post-9/11 GI bill.>>
09/17/09 02:16 pm ET
Dennis Blair, director of national intelligence, announced on Thursday that he selected Dawn Meyerriecks, a former AOL executive and former chief technology officer at the Defense Information Systems Agency, as the new deputy director of national intelligence for acquisition and technology.>>
09/17/09 01:38 pm ET
Most technologically advanced organizations monitor and log traffic on network servers automatically. That's not the case at the Army's Fort Huachuca in Arizona.>>
09/16/09 02:24 pm ET
Talking to reporters yesterday about the new National Intelligence Strategy, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair said the strategy would serve as a blueprint for a 200,000 person strong, $75 billion national intelligence enterprise.>>
09/15/09 05:15 pm ET
Some readers took exception to my posting last week of a high-level wiring diagram for the U.S. Cyber Command, which was labeled "For Official Use Only," a.k.a. FOUO.>>
09/14/09 02:42 pm ET
In 2011 Fort Monmouth, N.J., will be history, with folks from the Army Communications-Electronic Command (CECOM) either moved to Fort Belvoir, Va., or the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland. But CECOM contracting skills will live on in the new Veterans Affairs Department Technology Acquisition Center.>>
09/11/09 05:20 pm ET
A benevolent reader sent along a a high level organizational diagram for the U.S. Cyber Command, which I am going to share with everyone out there in Whats-land.>>
09/10/09 12:41 pm ET
Last month, President Obama suggested the Veterans Affairs Department tap its employees for ideas on how to cut the claims backlog at the Veterans Benefit Administration. Today, VA Secretary Eric Shinseki kicked off the "Innovation Competition," open to VA employees on an internal Web site.>>
09/09/09 02:14 pm ET
We still don't have a White House cyber czar and the Pentagon is still fine-tuning the details of the Cyber Command, but the International Spy Museum in Washington plans will launch a cyber war show dubbed Weapons of Mass Disruption next month.>>
09/08/09 10:02 am ET
The Army Research and Development Engineering Command is looking for more than a few good virtual worlds, and has kicked of a real world challenge to find the best for itself, the Homeland Security Department, NASA and other federal agencies.>>
09/04/09 04:37 pm ET
The Air Force -- and let's make it really clear, we're talking here about the U.S. Air Force headquartered in the Pentagon -- has blocked computer access to the Pentagon Channel, the Defense Department's 24/7 news channel designed to provide personnel with "more timely access to military information and news.">>
09/03/09 01:39 pm ET
I think I could write a monthly feature on lost or stolen government laptops. The Naval Hospital Pensacola in Florida reported the latest stray on Tuesday.>>
09/02/09 04:45 pm ET
The House Veterans Affairs Committee's Economic Opportunity Subcommittee has just shoehorned into its schedule next week a hearing on the interagency agreement that the Veterans Affairs Department put together with the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command.>>
09/01/09 05:41 pm ET
Allied Command Transformation, which does the change thing for NATO, has a request for proposals on the street to build a virtual headquarters to run operations in Asia.>>
