People

Fong: He doesn’t know ‘quit’

Army official puts off retirement twice to better Army’s portal.

People

No more JSTARS

The final Joint Surveillance Target Attack Radar System aircraft has rolled off the assembly line.

People

Finger-pointing leads to Army IT portfolio plan

Army Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Schoomaker has ordered the service’s chief information officer, Lt. Gen. Steve Boutelle, to devise a servicewide governance strategy for information technology.

People

Army program officer retires

Col. Hogan takes over from Col. Barlow as deputy program executive officer in the Army's Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems.

Digital Government

NSA uses NCI for knowledge management

NCI Information Systems will get $35 million for work on the National Security Agency's Knowledge System Prototype Development program.

People

Battlefield communications

Joint Network Node gives soldiers voice, video and data in mobile unit.

People

Pentagon backs industry committee

DOD and the Association for Enterprise Integration agreed to endorse the GIG Enterprise Services Industry Advisory Committee.

Digital Government

Intercepts

Slow NPS suit. New Army CIO org chart. NetCents two cents. Giving CSEL the hook. Help plan the intel office.

Cybersecurity

Pentagon seeks spyware fighter

Stratcom announced plans to buy a spyware protection system for the military and Coast Guard.

Cybersecurity

Deal to set government security standard

Plan would use Air Force model to determine Microsoft configurations.

People

Cheyenne center upgrade complete

Military officials earlier this month turned on the new command center in Cheyenne Mountain facility.

People

Army shares bomb data

The 18th Airborne Corps can use notebook PCs in the field to get information about improvised explosive devices.

People

Army graduates tech workers

A dozen people recently graduated from the Army Knowledge Leaders Program.

People

More IT for warfighting

DOD requests $30.1 billion for 2006

Digital Government

Intercepts

Dell Army. $10B IT Army. Secret clearances. Oracle burp. Big bucks.

People

Pentagon promises faster JTRS waivers

The Defense Department's CIO says "all steps are being taken to ensure expeditious approval of urgent operational requirements."

People

Defense tech debated

Lawmakers think troops could better communicate and access intelligence in Iraq and Afghanistan if they consolidated them.

People

Air Force names IT office

Officials support new headquarters as the Office of the Secretary of the Air Force for Warfighting Integration and Chief Information Officer.

People

Cyber warriors anticipate center

Personnel in the military's new cyberdefense organization hope to operate a new command center by late spring.

Modernization

CSC wins another Army logistics contract

A CSC-led team received a $199 million Army contract to design and build a computer interface between the service's field logistics systems and its new national one.