Time to Reflect
05/28/10 05:58 pm ET
On Monday, we will (hopefully) stop to pause and remember those we have sent into harms way, and here are my reflections:>>
TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
05/28/10 05:58 pm ET
On Monday, we will (hopefully) stop to pause and remember those we have sent into harms way, and here are my reflections:>>
05/28/10 05:05 pm ET
A tangible hit of far off homes The orange mail bag Carries everything from books to poems>>
05/28/10 05:03 pm ET
The Veterans Affairs Department briefs Congress monthly on data breaches, and yesterday Roger Baker, chief information officer at VA, held the first of what he said will be similar monthly data breach briefings for the press.>>
05/27/10 05:58 pm ET
Ask anyone to identify America's first black aviators, and they would undoubtedly cite the famed Tuskegee Airmen of World War II, including Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr., who went on to become the first African American Air Force General. >>
05/26/10 03:38 pm ET
Congress -- an outfit which consists of 535 folks in search of a sound bite and 24,000 staffers who support that goal -- wants access to the Defense Department's classified network, or also known as the Secret Internet Protocol Router Network (SIPRNet). >>
05/25/10 04:57 pm ET
As we get ready to honor those who served and died for this country on Memorial Day, the New Mexico Department of Veterans' Services will take care of some forgotten veterans: those who died with no known family to bury them.>>
05/24/10 04:29 pm ET
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency and the Army both kicked off projects to develop applications for mobile gadgets and gismos in March. The House Armed Services Committee strongly favors the Apps for the Army project over DARPA's Transformative Apps program.>>
05/21/10 05:26 pm ET
Defense Secretary Robert Gates continued on Thursday the high visibility campaign he started in a speech earlier this month to rein in military spending and argue for a more effective definition of competition in Defense contracts.>>
05/20/10 06:14 pm ET
The fiscal 2011 Defense Authorization Bill (http://armedservices.house.gov/pdfs/HASCFY11NDAA051910.pdf) approved by the House Armed Services Committee yesterday calls for replacement of today's Military Health System (http://www.health.mil/) with a new Unified Medical Command modeled on the Special Operations Command.>>
05/19/10 05:18 pm ET
Despite rules and regulations requiring contractors to encrypt data on laptops, 578 vendors have refused to abide by this common-sense approach to protect veteran data, as I reported last week. >>
05/18/10 03:38 pm ET
How bad is the threat of an insider attack against military information systems?>>
05/17/10 04:48 pm ET
National Rail in the United Kingdom had planned to start operation of a nifty new computerized train control system on the Cambrian Coast Lines in Wales but had to delay the launch because of a problem familiar to evening west bound commuters on Interstate 66 in Virginia: sun glare.>>
05/14/10 04:51 pm ET
I've met the Army's battlefield minirobot -- which goes by the official moniker of Small Unmanned Ground Vehicle -- twice over the past year on trips to White Sands Missile Range in south central New Mexico. I have to say it's one mighty impressive and cute little critter. >>
05/13/10 05:12 pm ET
My Marine Corps -- actually the Marine Reserve -- has a procurement on the street that boggled my mind. It's for an online physical fitness program that will include drag and drop functions and a variety of templates to make sure Marine reservists stay truly Semper Fit.>>
05/12/10 04:00 pm ET
The Energy Department has joined the all out federal effort to help stop the almost month-long oil gusher in the Gulf of Mexico.>>
05/11/10 01:59 pm ET
Japan, which provided the world with its first robotic dog in 1999, has now turned on the world's first tweeting satellite. The tweety bird is a four-inch square, 2.2 pound CubeSat from Intelligent Space Systems Laboratory at the University of Tokyo.>>
05/10/10 05:07 pm ET
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates invoking the spirit of former President and Supreme Cmdr. of Allied Forces in Europe Dwight D. Eisenhower in a call for a more frugal approach to spending by the Pentagon in a speech on May 7 at the Eisenhower Library in Abilene, Kansas.>>
05/07/10 06:03 pm ET
I'm a real sucker for places that bill themselves as located at the edge of a land mass. So when researching an article on Air Force supply drops to remote radar sites in Alaska, I had the thrill of discovering that the Tin City radar site sits on the westernmost point of the North American continent.>>
05/06/10 05:59 pm ET
Adm. Mike Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, stands out as a social media pioneer in the Defense Department, having launched his own Facebook page in July 2009 and is a regular Tweeter.>>
05/05/10 06:46 pm ET
The Veterans Affairs Department completed a study in 1988 that determined up to 30 percent of Vietnam Veterans suffered from post traumatic stress disorder and in 2000 Congress directed VA to do a follow-up study and they want officials to interview the same people they talked to for the first study.>>
05/04/10 06:26 pm ET
I live in small town America, The Original Las Vegas, in New Mexico, which means that folks just wander in from time to time. >>
05/03/10 06:29 pm ET
Multiple federal agencies, led by the Coast Guard, are trying to manage the oil spill and damaged drill site that is spewing at least 5,000 barrels of a day into the Gulf of Mexico. They have set up an omnibus website called Deepwater Horizon Response, named after the drilling rig that exploded and caused the mess.>>
