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DOD announces new high-level Navy advisory panel
The Secretary of the Navy Advisory Panel's topics topics will include acquisition reform, the shipbuilding industrial base and intelligence organization in the Navy.
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DOD official orders head count of private security guards
The department will centrally track personal, contract and detailed deployment information on all private security contractors and translators working in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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Army seeks new contracting software
Two Army contractors are currently conducting a business case analysis to determine whether the service should move to a new system or keep the old one.
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DOD unveils new employee phone monitoring policy
The new rules, which update a 1981 policy, also spell out for the first time the ground rules for network attacks by DOD officials to test how secure the military’s defenses are.
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Lord: Cyberwarfare means new rules of engagement
The incoming commander of the provisional Air Force Cyber Command said the United States needs new plans to deal with swift cyberattacks.
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Maj. Gen. Lord is a groundbreaker
As cyberattacks escalate, Lord has a new role as the Air Force’s chief cyberwarrior
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Air Force to get "cyber sidearms"
The tool could come in a number of forms, but the goal is to help service members quickly detect and alert others to cyberattacks.
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DOD plans new media hub at Fort Meade
Some programs the military services now control will transfer to the authority of the assistant secretary of Defense for public affairs next year.
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Young promises acquisition changes
New policy mandates use of competitive prototyping in large DOD programs
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DISA rethinks its security strategies
The Defense Department’s net-centric data policies expose weaknesses in operational awareness.
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Air Force shops for high-power microwave technologies
It wants technologies at various stages of maturity that can be used in weapon systems.
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DOD relents and names a CMO
Many agree that a chief management officer is needed but some question the particulars
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A few minutes with... Kevin Carroll
Kevin Carroll retired last week as the Army’s program executive officer for enterprise information systems after eight years at the helm of the service’s top information technology shop. In an interview with Federal Computer Week, Carroll reflected on his time in the Army.
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DOD failed to stop exploitation
With private security firm Blackwater USA under fire for its role in a recent shooting incident in Baghdad, new details are emerging about another problem involving contractors in Iraq: the working and living conditions of international laborers employed on U.S. government projects.
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DOD failed to stop exploitation
Documents describe human trafficking violations by DOD contractors in Iraq
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General asks for shakeup in DOD’s C2 programs
Officials spearheading an experimental effort to streamline management of the military's information technology capabilities want more than $1 billion in adjustments to the fiscal 2009 budget request for command-and-control (C2) systems. Air Force Maj. Gen. Michael Hostage, who leads the requirements and integration directorate at the Joint Forces Command, said he submitted seven program change requests to senior Defense Department officials at the end of August. Hostage submitted his recommendations to the high-powered Deputy's Advisory Working…
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DOD launches workforce study of contracting skills
Effort will study the skills and competencies of 26,000 DOD acquisition employees
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Military finance agency to cut workforce
The Defense Finance and Accounting Service plans to trim the number of employees from 14,000 to less than 10,000 within four years.
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Decision on Navy pay system expected next week
A briefing is set for Sept. 25, but most Navy officials would prefer to use the Marine Corps' system rather than DIMHRS, at least at first.
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Senate committee calls for independent review of WIN-T
Senators are concerned about what they call technological challenges and programmatic uncertainties, which could lead to additional cost growth and schedule slips in the program.
