Wildfire Radios Sent to Haiti
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.>>
TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
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.>>
01/28/10 05:43 pm ET
By now, practically everyone on the planet knows that Steve Jobs and Apple introduced on Wednesday the iPad tablet, the machine That Will Change The World As We Know It Forever.>>
01/27/10 04:47 pm ET
That's a good question, since Ellen Embry, who has been performing the duties of the assistant secretary of Defense for Health Affairs since Dr. S. Ward Casscells resigned in April 2009, announced at the kick off of the Military Health System Conference on Monday that she too plans to retire. Folks in the know tell me she will leave in a matter of days. >>
01/26/10 05:33 pm ET
The United States has operated in Afghanistan for nine years and based on a FedBizOpps notice last week, at least one part of the Army plans for another five years.>>
01/25/10 05:08 pm ET
The answer to that question is the Veterans Affairs Department's Education Call Center in Muskogee, Okla., which no longer takes calls from veterans on Thursdays or Fridays.>>
01/22/10 05:29 pm ET
I'm picking up five-by-five signals - that's "loud and clear" in radio speak -- that the Veterans Affairs Department's $600 million financial and asset management system may never take wing.>>
01/21/10 06:16 pm ET
Some truly off-the-wall comments on a story on the Haitian relief operations I wrote last week suggest that Haiti was not hit by an earthquake but some sort of a planned attack by the United States.>>
01/20/10 05:27 pm ET
Boeing's newest version of its largest commercial aircraft, the 747-8, could be hacked, according to a little noticed item published in the Federal Register by the Federal Aviation Administration on Jan. 15.>>
01/19/10 06:14 pm ET
Does this sound like an all too familiar news story? >>
01/15/10 05:07 pm ET
Some hard working soul has put together a mind-boggling Wikipedia list of more than 70 countries that have joined together to provide millions of Haitian people battered by Tuesday's earthquake with the basics of life: food, water and shelter.>>
01/14/10 05:28 pm ET
One of the first outfits to respond to the disaster in Haiti was the all volunteer Fairfax Co., Va., Fire and Rescue Department -sponsored urban search and rescue team, known as Virginia Task Force 1.>>
01/13/10 05:02 pm ET
The Defense and the Veterans Affairs departments offer a wide range of tools to help soldiers and veterans on the brink of suicide, including counseling centers and 800 number help lines.>>
01/12/10 05:37 pm ET
I spent eight out of 12 days of my Hawaii Christmas vacation on the island of Molokai and decided it made sense to read a biography of St. Damien, the Belgian priest who volunteered to care for lepers banned to that island.>>
01/11/10 04:46 pm ET
The Navy plans to stand up its new cyber outfit, Navy Cyber Forces, at the Joint Expeditionary Base in Little Creek - Fort Story in Virginia on jan. 26. It will ultimately have some 40,000 cyber warriors under its command, I'm told.>>
01/08/10 01:33 pm ET
Here are the top 10 most read What's Brewin blog items in 2009, in order:>>
