DCMA implements data management solution
The Defense Contract Management Agency has implemented a new backup and data management solution for its 30 locations worldwide to handle the agency's weekly backups of more than 11 terabytes of data.
NMCI not meeting Navy goals, GAO finds
After spending six years and $3.7 billion on the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet program, the Navy has not yet achieved the two strategic goals set for the project.
The rise of the contractor workforce
Vendors offer a glimpse behind the corporate veil
Government's other IT workforce
The federal government doesn't know how many contract IT workers it employs. Nor does it care, as long as the work gets done. But with $67 billion in IT funds sloshing around in the federal budget, ignoring the bulk of the workforce iceberg also ignores regulatory, policy and demographic issues.
Bases go on alert
System makes information dissemination easier and quicker.
Tom Pyke | A more secure IT environment
Tom Pyke was tapped to be the cowboy in the white hat for the Energy Department after a series of high-profile lapses in computer security at the department recently.
Romanian charged with hacking U.S. computers
A Romanian computer hacker is indicted for breaking into systems at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory and the Goddard Space Flight Center, the Energy's Sandia National Laboratory and the U.S. Naval Observatory
Navy promotes Carey to CIO
Robert Carey, a deputy CIO currently on active duty in Iraq, will replace David Wennergren as Navy CIO.
Marines order communications units for Iraq operations
The Marine Corps Systems Command has awarded a contract to General Dynamics Corp. for 150 communications units under the Tactical Data Network Data Distribution System-Replacement program.
IT security testing weak, GAO finds
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font color>Federal agencies are not testing their security controls with any consistency or timeliness, and as a result may not realize their systems' weaknesses, a new General Accounting Office report concludes.
Open-source intelligence moving to the fore
The development and sharing of open-source information may be the first arena where true collaboration among all the agencies in the intelligence community takes hold.
Intel community not hurt by congressional switch: expert
The Democrats' takeover in Congress should not have a direct negative effect on the intelligence community, but possible changes in recent budget practices could be harmful, according to a high-ranking committee staff director.
Senate bid may be in Davis' future
If Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), chairman of the House Government Reform Committee, holds on and is re-elected, he has his eye on the next challenge'running for the Senate in 2008, should incumbent John Warner decide to retire after five terms.
Evans: Agencies are improving security profiles
Agencies continue to make progress in securing their information systems, according to Karen Evans, OMB's administrator of e-government and IT.
GAO: Better coordination of cybersecurity R&D needed
The federal government has to do a better job of coordinating research and development on cybersecurity issues, according to a just-released <a href="http://www.gao.gov/cgi-bin/getrpt?GAO-06-811"><u>report</u></a>.
Davis in a rare fight for re-election
Individual loss, or a loss of GOP control, would impact the federal IT community.
National Guard orders portable RFID kits
The U.S. National Guard has purchased $4.6 million worth of mobile radio-frequency identification systems to improve real-time tracking of supplies at National Guard armories and for deployed operations.
Air Force moves ahead on imagery backbone
The Air Force has awarded a $3.5 million task order to Lockheed Martin Corp. to expedite imagery and intelligence report sharing through early rollout of the Distributed Common Ground System Integration Backbone.
Tool puts radio assets on the map
Survey and mapping system co-developed by the Navy SPAWAR Systems Center and the Homeland Security Department closes communications gap among local, state and federal first responders.
Garcia looks to raise cybersecurity's profile
Homeland Security Department's new assistant secretary for cybersecurity and telecommunications faces a big task: raising awareness of IT security's importance from a post that had been left vacant for two years.
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