A Do-It-Ourselves Anniversary Site
03/31/10 01:37 pm ET
As I observed last week, the Defense Department just this month decided to start developing a Web site to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, which is this year. >>
TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
03/31/10 01:37 pm ET
As I observed last week, the Defense Department just this month decided to start developing a Web site to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Vietnam War, which is this year. >>
03/30/10 05:32 pm ET
Teresa "Teri" Takai, who President Obama nominated as the Defense Department's chief information officer on Monday, taped a video message for her workers in February that could easily be applied to Defense: work together more effectively.>>
03/29/10 04:42 pm ET
It turns out that on March 21 as I and 5,000 military and civilian folks participated in the 21st Annual Bataan Memorial Death March at White Sands Missile Range, N.M., we had some company at the Army's Camp Arifjan in Kuwait.>>
03/29/10 01:56 pm ET
The Navy has started to develop its own take on the Defense Departmentwide social media policy for the Navy and Marine Corps released in February. Navy Department Chief Information Officer Rob Carey said in a blog post on March 26 that he expected the service's policy to be released real soon. >>
03/26/10 05:05 pm ET
On March 29, a statue depicting a kneeling soldier paying homage to a fallen comrade will be dedicated at the New Mexico Veterans' Memorial adjacent to Kirtland Air Force Base in Albuquerque.>>
03/25/10 05:23 pm ET
The Defense Department plans to kick off any time now the 50th anniversary commemoration of the Vietnam War -- even though we're already three months into the 50th year.>>
03/24/10 05:31 pm ET
This Sunday, as my buddy Paul McCloskey, editor of Government Health IT, and I passed mile marker six on the Bataan Memorial Death March we passed a young soldier toting an enormous rucksack, who was limping and favoring his left leg.>>
03/23/10 04:41 pm ET
The Defense Information Systems Agency wants some really smart folks to help it, the Central Command, the State Department and the Agency for International Development to build an information communications technology infrastructure for Afghanistan.>>
03/22/10 11:19 am ET
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. -- I had the privilege on Sunday of participating for the second time in the annual Bataan Memorial Death March here at this sprawling Army military installation that occupies much of New Mexico south of the small city of Alamogordo. >>
03/19/10 01:47 pm ET
The U.S. Postal Service, which expects to lose $7 billion this year, could pick up more than a bit of spare change by helping the Federal Communications Commission and the National Telecommunications Administration conduct a national analysis of spectrum usage, according to the FCC's National Broadband Plan, which it recently sent Congress.>>
03/18/10 05:18 pm ET
Yep, soon veterans headed to the Veterans Affairs Department hospital in Loma Linda, Calif., which is down Interstate 10 in Palm Springs will be served with the same kind of highfalutin parking service experienced by the pampered set at upscale restaurants.>>
03/17/10 06:48 pm ET
Anyone who logged on to the Web site of SNCF, the French national rail service, on Tuesday would have read a bulletin that a high-speed TGV train had crashed in Burgundy, killing more than 100 people and injuring nearly 400.>>
03/16/10 05:56 pm ET
The Veterans Affairs Department doesn't plan to turn on for at least another month a system that exchanges information in veterans' electronic health records with the Defense Department, Roger Baker, VA's chief information officer told me.>>
03/16/10 05:50 pm ET
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency has kicked off a research project to develop systems imbued with something that only exists in the animal kingdom: visual intelligence. The name of the project? The Mind's Eye.>>
03/15/10 05:25 pm ET
Television viewers in the Republic of Georgia thought for a few panicky moments on March 13 that the country had come under attack by Russia for the second time since 2007.>>
03/12/10 05:20 pm ET
The Pentagon will end up paying Lockheed Martin Corp. between $95 million and $131 million for each next generation F-35 fighter -- or 60 percent to 90 percent more than the original advertised sticker price.>>
03/11/10 05:38 pm ET
I'm picking up strong signals that the Veterans Affairs Department has yet to fix the bug in its electronic health data exchange with the Defense Department and may not until next week rather than on March 9 as predicted. >>
03/10/10 05:46 pm ET
The Joint Tactical Radio System, in development since 1999 when I only had a few gray hairs, failed another series of tests last year at Fort Bliss, Texas.>>
03/09/10 03:12 pm ET
Last year, I hiked in the Bataan Memorial Death March and considered it one of the top 10 events of my life, a day where those old fashioned words comradeship and camaraderie rang true.>>
03/08/10 07:50 pm ET
Oh my, when will they ever learn at the Veterans Affairs Department? I have heard from well placed sources that the VA inspector general may start an investigation into how and why an employee of the VA medical center in Atlanta downloaded patient clinical data to a personal laptop.>>
03/08/10 05:44 pm ET
Roger Baker, the chief information officer at the Veterans Affairs Department and the $6.6 billion man, will get a few more shekels to spend in fiscal 2011 if the Senate VA committee and the Republicans on the House VA committee get their way in the long budget process.>>
03/05/10 05:33 pm ET
The transparency thing touted by President Obama in his first full day in office evidently does not apply to all patient safety alerts issued by the Veterans Affairs Department. >>
03/04/10 05:42 pm ET
Although Eastern Airlines went bankrupt in 1991, the Federal Aviation Administration for some reason decided to illustrate the cover of its 78-page 2010 "Portfolio of Goals" report with a photo of the venerable DC-9 operated by the long-defunct carrier.>>
03/03/10 05:19 pm ET
Apple's iPhone and smart phones built around Google's Android operating system make for yummy application development platforms, but their use in the federal government -- especially the Defense Department -- has been restricted because neither the iPhone nor Android phones have received security accreditation from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. But Lt. Gen. Jeffrey Sorenson, the Army chief information officer, indicated at a press briefing on Wednesday that that situation may soon change. He said Apple and Google are making progress in getting their gizmos certified to the Federal Information Processing (FIPS) 140-2 cryptology standard needed for use on federal networks.>>
03/02/10 01:22 pm ET
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said on Monday it wants individuals and industry to develop military iPhone and Android applications "that can be used today with little or no additional research and development expenses.">>
03/01/10 05:15 pm ET
The Army launched its "Apps for the Army" contest on Monday, which is open to active-duty, Reserve and National Guard personnel, and civilian employees. The service seeks some good Web and mobile software applications that can be used throughout the Army.>>
