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GAO finds sloppy accounting for military IT
Defense officials need better policies for transparent accounting of IT budget requests and expenditures, says General Accounting Office officials.
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Spartan Scout makes unmanned waves
The Navy yesterday announced the first successful test patrol of an remote-controlled, unmanned surface vessel.
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Defense transformation site debuts
The site will concentrate on news in the transformation arena, including technologies used by service members abroad in the fight against terrorism.
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CSC wins $88 million ship contract
The company will provide the Future Concepts and Surface Ship Design Group with support services.
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Lee wins Ross award
The Professional Services Council's highest honor went to Deidre Lee, who has been in charge of Defense procurement policy.
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Report bemoans lack of data standards for military tests
The Defense Department's policies for data from its test facilities produce data results that aren't comparable with one another, the inspector general says.
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Marine accounting competition delayed
The Defense Authorization Act prevents the department from continuing with A-76 competitions until the Defense Secretary submits a report on the rule's effects.
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Cava to run biometrics center
The Army today announced that Samuel Cava has been appointed director of the Defense Department's Biometrics Fusion Center.
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Defense wins purchasing honors
The Standard Procurement System and the Federal Technical Data solution won Grace Hopper awards.
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Defense COPs out to UDOP
The military wants to replace one-display-for-all with a broad picture allowing for different views.
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Threat agency boss rejoins Los Alamos
Stephen Younger will resign as director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency to return to Los Alamos National Laboratory.
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GAO sees no strategy for military's commercial bandwidth
The Defense Department's process for buying satellite bandwidth can be too slow and inflexible, according to the General Accounting Office.
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Bloom heads to Treasury
The former director of the Defense Finance and Accounting Service was named senior deputy comptroller and CFO at the Office of the Comptroller of the Currency.
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Iraq contracts limited to allies
Countries that didn't take part in the conflict can't get reconstruction contracts, including a communications one.
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Military sees network benefits from IPv6
The next generation of Internet standards will help the Defense Department reach its goal of network centricity, a DOD official said today.
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DFAS gets a new Shine
Pat Shine will be acting director for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service.
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Pentagon Renovation goes forward
The building will get at least 700,000 miles of data lines over the next seven years.
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Hardware coming for defense credentialing pilot
The military will distribute DCIS equipment to four companies.
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GAO sees weak discipline of DOD purchase offenders
The Defense Department often does not take strong enough disciplinary action against abusers of purchase cards, the General Accounting Office officials say.
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