People

Navy extends NMCI pact

The $3.1 billion contract extension locks in 15 percent seat price reduction.

Modernization

DISA needs tech to push data

Vendors at industry day learn of agency’s focus on net-enabled information

People

DISA says ‘yes, sir’ to telework

Workplace options could forestall employee losses

Acquisition

DISA awards $22.8M business modernization contract

The agency will use the contract to create an integrated procurement system that is accessible worldwide to authorized users.

Cybersecurity

Missile Defense Agency slows IG reviews

The Defense Department's inspector general charged the Missile Defense Agency with trying to delay investigative audits.

Cybersecurity

Missile defense network open to cyberattack

Lack of automated log audits and individual passwords could cripple network.

Cybersecurity

DOD removes missile defense system report from Web site

It details poor password security and a lack of audit trails.

People

Intercepts

War is hell, 2006 update; Real-life Army/Navy video game battle; A hundred billion here…

People

DOD IG: Lack of systems engineering imperils missile system

The Missile Defense Agency has not completed a systems engineering plan or developed a sustainment plan for the Ballistic Missile Defense System, a report states.

Cybersecurity

Security flaws could cripple missile defense network

The IG report faults the network that stitches together radars, missile launch sites and command control centers for the Missile Defense Agency.

People

GAO: DOD wastes RFID tags

The department treats the $100 reusable cards as disposable.

People

Flying ICUs save lives

Handheld scanners, airborne ICU equipment help prevent battlefield fatalities

People

Intercepts

Hall and Oates, and Gen. Croom?; will JPTA learn how to say ‘eh?’; a new year, a new buzz phrase

People

Intercepts

Needed: IM etiquette during mortar attacks; An idea for IDs; The bandwidth ‘social issue’; Absolutely agog over AHLTA

Digital Government

Intel chairman: Big employers should push health IT

And Mark Warner, former governor of Virginia, estimates that health IT systems could cut annual U.S. health care costs by $140 billion.

Digital Government

Canada outpaces U.S. in health IT

As of next month, Canada Health Infoway will have pumped $562 million into health IT.

Digital Government

AHRQ launches health care IT resource center

The Web site includes a library with links to 5,000 health care IT-related documents and a health care IT evaluation toolkit.

People

Intercepts

Here comes Quadrennial-vision; Conference calls into the wild blue yonder; Medics are men, NFL players are boys; Remember: They speak English outside the Beltway

People

DOD shows off light, fast Stiletto

Experimental vessel meets service’s vision of a new class of bold ships

Digital Government

The dawn of the electronic medication era

SureScripts' nationwide service will give physicians access to all e-medication records, no matter which drugstore store fills a prescription.