Digital Government

Congress cuts $3.46B from Bush's avian flu request

A House-Senate conference committee added the funding to DOD's Appropriations bill and $29B for assistance to hurricane-damaged regions in the South.

Digital Government

House OKs $111.7M for ONCHIT

It provides HHS' Office of the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology with $16 million more than the Senate version of the bill.

People

Pacom wants more flexible NMCI

The command's CIO wants the intranet to support users outside the Navy and Marine Corps.

People

Navy opts for thin-client systems onboard ships

Decision reflects need to harness more computing power without burdening shipboard resources.

People

Intercepts: Aloha Edition

We spent last week in Hawaii at AFCEA International's TechNet Asia-Pacific 2005 conference, while Washington, D.C., went through its first snow of the season.

Modernization

Air Force to increase Guam's bandwidth

The move is necessary to support more planned operations, Pacific Air Forces' chief information officer said.

Digital Government

HHS releases pandemic flu checklist for businesses

Plans call for businesses to develop IT infrastructures that support telecommuting and remote user access.

Digital Government

Hawaii preparing for pandemic flu

State health officials plan to develop a data management system that will correlate a wide range of related information.

People

Pacom leads military in pandemic planning

The U.S. military's preparation for a possible outbreak of bird flu lags that of Asian and Pacific countries.

People

DISA's Encore II contract valued at $13B

Vehicle expected to help defense agencies transition their services to DISA's NCES program.

Digital Government

HHS asks states for pandemic plans

HHS wants all 50 states to develop pandemic plans that coincide with federal plans.

People

CDC to track quarantined people

The agency plans to use a secure, Web-based system to track people when they are isolated or quarantined as part of an effort to control the spread of infectious diseases.

Digital Government

CDC plans flight e-tracking

CDC plans to collect data on 600 million airline passengers a year to help fight pandemics.

People

Army wants any time, anywhere RFID tag

GovWorks is responsible for buying tags equipped with satellite and cellular capabilities.

People

Arthur K. Cebrowski, 1942-2005

Navy vice admiral was known as father of network-centric warfare

Digital Government

USDA bill provides $33.4M for animal ID

The bill, passed last week, also put tight restrictions on the department's acquisition of new information technology systems.

Digital Government

Diaspora dispatches

Stories of how individual health care workers, hospital IT staff and policy planners responded to Katrina reveal the glaring weaknesses -- and the buried potential -- of the nation's health IT infrastructure.

Digital Government

Mending the safety net

CIOs say public hospital tech gap threatens national health network

Acquisition

Four teams to build health nets

Limited budget forces HHS to scale back network awards

People

Brewin: Cebrowski remembered

The former leader of DOD’s transformation office died Saturday.