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  • U/S intelligence officials called out China and Russia in a new report on industrial espionage and somewhat surprising element emerged.\"We often speak of China s the aggressor, but after the United States they\'re the largest victim of cyber space exploits\", said John McClurg, Chief Security officer at Dell. The report to Congress on Foreign Economic Collection and Industrial Espionage indicates that the U.S. going to take a much more active approach to fighting cyber crime.

    November 14, 2011
  • Military leaders warned Congress on Wednesday that steeper cuts in defense spending, as either a policy choice or a consequence of political gridlock, will gut the armed forces and sap U.S. global influence. The AP reports, \"Their predictions of doom, while disputed by some private defense and foreign policy analysts, reflect a consensus Pentagon view that even as the U.S. winds down its military involvement in Iraq and Afghanistan it would be highly risky to national security to make large, across-the-board cuts in spending.\"

    November 14, 2011
  • What are the biggest threats to the U/S? Cyber terrorists and transnational threats are leading the list at this point. Also on the list is money. Slashing the Pentagon budget is forcing top military officials to think about what they can do without. But that\'s not all bad, some say they\'ve been able to focus more carefully on what their true mission is and their personnel have a more clear understanding of what matters most.

    November 14, 2011
  • NATO military convoys in Kabul. How safe are they? Is there anything that can be done to make them safer? Americans living and working in Afghanistan\'s capitol say it\'s not unusual to see the convoys mixed in with regular civilian traffic as they move from place to place. One of the questions being examined is, whether there are are other options for troop and contractor movement around the city. The suicide attack over the weekend, that killed 17 including, 13 Americans has been claimed by the Taliban, with help from the Haqqani network.

    November 14, 2011
  • Web 2.0 guru Steve Lunceford, joins host Mark Amtower to talk about how contractors are using, Twitter, LinkedIn and other social networking tools. November 14, 2011

    November 14, 2011
  • The spyware was designed to steal your information, and open the network for even worse cyber attacks.

    November 14, 2011
  • The Pentagon wants to rewrite the contract terms with Lockheed Martin over the F-35 fighter jet in the middle of the deal.

    November 14, 2011
  • Yogesh Khanna, the chief technology office of CSC\'s North American Public Sector, has compiled his list of top 10 lessons learned.

    November 14, 2011
  • Tom Trabucco of the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board outlines the F Fund.

    November 14, 2011
  • The contract management agency has added staff in recent years and sought a pivot in strategy, the GAO found. But DCMA still faces issues, such as contingency contracting and its reliance on DCAA, that impact its ability to meet its mission, GAO's John Hutton said on In Depth with Francis Rose.

    November 14, 2011
  • Trey Hodgkins, senior vice president for procurement policy at industry group TechAmerica, said the repeal of a 3 percent withholding tax is good news for government contractors.

    November 14, 2011
  • Forrester\'s David Johnson explains the steps you need to take to bring in Apple technology.

    November 14, 2011
  • 92 percent of plans have taken steps to educate their members about health information technology, but less than 5 percent of members are accessing their records online.

    November 14, 2011
  • The Navy says its F-35C is different from the F-35A and B because of larger wing surfaces and reinforced landing gear, to hold up under the strain of catapult launches and short landings on aircraft carriers.

    November 14, 2011