People

DISA career event offers mentoring

Potential employees will get meetings with senior agency officials.

People

Navy encourages use of Web 2.0 tools

New policy says tools will help Navy and Marines reach collaboration, interoperability goals.

People

DOD jumps on wiki bandwagon

Officials hope DOD's Techipedia will help with collaboration and coordination.

People

GAO urges standardization of biometric data

The Government Accountability Office says the lack of standards and the use of proprietary formats has inhibited information sharing.

Digital Government

Coast Guard search and rescue network joins Facebook

Officials hope the Web 2.0 tool will improve communications among the program's users.

People

Air Force seeks input on defending cyberspace

The service seeks proposals on how to eliminate vulnerabilities.

People

DOD seeks improved collaboration

A new contract focuses on providing training and support to the user community of supercomputers.

People

Also in the News: YouTube, PBS urge people to record voting

If voters see problems on Election Day, YouTube and PBS want them to record the incidents and post them to a new Web site, the AP reports.

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GAO: Agencies should standardize biometric data

Information sharing would improve among agencies if a standard is chosen, the auditing agency reports.

People

Bush signs NASA bill with tech requirements

The space agency must develop technology to allow the public to experience space travel.

People

IG: More control needed over some DOD security cards

Report finds that some background checks are done without oversight by the Army.

People

DARPA seeks technology for seeing inside buildings

Project aims to develop several technologies, not a single comprehensive solution.

People

DISA seeks state-of-the-art security assessment services

DOD is open to buying a solution through a software-as-a-service or managed services approach.

People

New rules let Congress use Web sites such as YouTube

Web 2.0 sites cannot be used for commercial or campaign-related purposes.

People

DOD expands NCES program

DISA is seeking a vendor to provide instant messaging, chat and Web conferencing services.

People

NASA launches Smog Blog for Central America

Site provides reports about air quality using data from satellites.

Modernization

DISA issues RFI for Net-Centric Enterprise Services

The Defense Information Systems Agency seeks to develop a collaboration system that works on classified and unclassified networks.

People

GAO: Space-based Infrared system may miss schedule

Officials have set an aggressive, risky schedule that could ultimately delay the first launch of a military surveillance system, GAO said.

Digital Government

Authorization bill would require NASA to upgrade IT

The space agency would develop technology to allow the public to experience missions to the moon and Mars under a bill passed by the Senate.

Modernization

Report: DOD needs to require more RFID tags

An inspector general's report finds about 10 percent of contracts lack the required RFID clause.