TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
02/26/10 04:23 pm ET
In the most startling act of generosity of the year, the Air Force plans to pony up $104 million for the new headquarters of the U.S. Cyber Command at Fort Meade, Md., in its fiscal 2011 budget.>>
02/25/10 06:00 pm ET
The Defense, Labor and Veterans Affairs departments launched a Web site on Thursday that offers a comprehensive guide to benefits, employment, health care and family support information.>>
02/24/10 06:03 pm ET
On Feb. 19, Peter Orszag, director of the Office of Management Budget, and Kathleen Sebelius, secretary of the Health and Human Services Department, sent a memo to Defense Department Secretary Robert Gates; Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki; Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack; Commerce Secretary Gary Locke; Michael Astrue, commissioner of the Social Security Administration; and John Berry, director of the Office of Personnel Management, detailing the formation of a high-level task force to coordinate all federal health information technology.>>
02/23/10 03:39 pm ET
The U.S. Strategic Command says that military units in Afghanistan soon will start receiving thumb drive kits that meet its >new flash media policy for Defense Department networks and computers. >>
02/22/10 03:35 pm ET
This contract award notice was posted on FedBizOpps on Feb. 19, detailing the cost of the gear needed to receive DirectTV on three DC-9 jets operated by the 932nd Aircraft Wing at Scott Air Force Base, Ill., for "Distinguished Visitor" (that would be congressional folks and other pooh-bahs).>>
02/19/10 04:15 pm ET
I woke up today with what can only be described as a bombardment of e-mails from PR folks who had clients panting to give me their views on the U.S. Strategic Command lifting its ban on thumb drives and other flash media, a notion they picked up from stories in Inside Defense, Wired and Government Computer News, which based its story on the Wired and Inside Defense reports.>>
02/18/10 05:24 pm ET
The Veterans Affairs Department plans to push the use of Twitter and Facebook to all of its 148 medical centers, according to an insightful account on the department's use of social media on The Huffington Post by Richard Allen Smith, who writes the VetVoice blog.>>
02/17/10 05:45 pm ET
The Veterans Affairs Department has opened up a new Web portal to solicit ideas from the public and from department employees on how it can become more transparent, collaborative and all those other open government buzzwords.>>
02/16/10 04:30 pm ET
Google, it seems, thinks it can do almost anything better than anybody, from its core search business to broadband networks to mobile phones.>>
02/12/10 04:26 pm ET
The seabed wreck of the USS Macon airship, which crashed 75 years ago today off of Point Sur, Calif., 140 miles south of San Francisco, has been added to the National Register of Historical Places, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration announced.The wreck of...>>
02/11/10 01:48 pm ET
That's been a hot question and topic of conversation in the Washington area for the past week, and in Howard County, Md., the answer to that question is easy thanks to GPS technology.>>
02/10/10 04:39 pm ET
It's amazing what I can find trolling through thousands of pages of budget documents. Like this one: the location of a highly sensitive system.>>
02/09/10 05:13 pm ET
The Veterans Affairs Department kicked off the Veterans Health Administration Innovation Initiative on Feb. 5 and asked its employees to come up with some good ideas to help it do the transformation thing.>>
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 05:08 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.>>
02/04/10 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.>>
02/03/10 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.>>
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