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
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
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.
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