Conway in line to be Marine Corps commandant
President Bush nominates Lt. Gen. James T. Conway for Marines' top post.
New Defense wireless policy tightens security
More than two years in the making, the memorandum aims to boost security on wireless LANs connected to DOD's Global Information Grid.
DISA awards contract for SOA governance products
The Defense Information Systems Agency has selected Merlin Technical Solutions Inc. to provide service-oriented architecture governance products for the agency's Net-Enabled Command Capability and Net-Centric Enterprise Services initiatives.
Army, DataPath link up for network support
The Army Communications-Electronics Command has awarded a $72.9 million contract to DataPath Inc. for continued support of the service's Joint Network Node program.
NGA taps Lockheed for training
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will pay Lockheed Martin $176 million to provide technical training to its employees and other Defense and intelligence workers.
Defense drafts Business Mission Area Federation Strategy
The Defense Department's Business Transformation Agency has approved the Business Mission Area Federation Strategy, which outlines how the enterprise architectures in the military services and agencies will tie into DOD's overarching business enterprise architecture.
David Laufman on deck for Defense IG
President Bush plans to nominate the assistant U.S. attorney for the Eastern District of Virginia to become the Defense Department's inspector general.
DOD to build EA from ground up
Defense officials say the department is too big to push its Business Enterprise Architecture down to all the military services and agencies. So, they're promoting a federated approach that focuses on the component agencies. Defense components must adopt an organized structure that will align business rules and processes with the BEA. The Business Transformation Agency issued a draft of this structure, called the Business Mission Area Federation Strategy, last week.
Army pulls plug on IT conference
<font color="CC0000">(Updated)</font color> The cancellation of the Army's Information Technology Conference scheduled for next week was the result of a servicewide move to freeze non-mission-critical spending.
Intelligence community to reboot security
The intelligence community is turning to Defense services and agencies, industry and academia to help them overhaul their outdated and ineffective certification and accreditation processes. This month, personnel will begin receiving invitations to participate in one of two teams that will ultimately make suggestions on how to improve certification and accreditation processes across the intelligence community.
Army reopens ITES-2S
After reviewing protests filed by losing bidders on the Army's recent Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services contracts, the Army has decided to re-evaluate all offers.
GAO seeks more effort from Defense on modernization
Over the past six months, the Defense Department has made incremental strides in transforming its legacy and duplicative business systems by releasing another business enterprise architecture version, updating its enterprise transition plan and issuing a report to Congress.
Army signs on for bandwidth boost
Months after the Defense Information Systems Agency wired 86 military installations with a $900 million, high-speed, high-capacity fiber network, the Army has taken a major step toward extending the last-mile connectivity reach of the Global Information Grid-Bandwidth Expansion program.
Army to reconsider ITES-2 awards
After reviewing protests filed by losing bidders on the Army's recent Information Technology Enterprise Solutions-2 Services contracts, the Army has decided to re-evaluate all offers.
Collaboration gets DOD's modernization on track
In just over a year, the Defense Department has made more progress on its business systems modernization project than it did in the past 10. <b>Paul Brinkley</b>, deputy undersecretary of Defense for business transformation, and his team in the Business Transformation Agency have been largely responsible for the turnaround.
New Defense center to synchronize intel ops
The Defense Joint Intelligence Operations Center will integrate full-spectrum intelligence operations on behalf of U.S. military combatant commands.
Intel reform closely tied to IT spending
Included in the 2007 House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence authorization is a section directing intelligence agencies, in their fiscal 2008 budget proposals, to tie IT spending to their respective enterprise architecture frameworks at both their individual agency level as well as enterprisewide.
Teams forming to review intel certification, accreditation
Personnel in the military services and agencies, as well as representatives from industry and academia, will receive invitations next week to participate in one of two teams that will ultimately make suggestions on overhauling the certification and accreditation processes across the intelligence community.
Navy awards Sea Enterprise contracts
The Navy has awarded two contracts potentially worth more than $890 million for various IT support services under its Sea Enterprise program.
Intrusion detected in DOD server
Routine monitoring uncovered recently that an intruder had compromised a server supporting the Defense Department's Tricare Management Activity.
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