Defense
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A group calling itself \"Lulzsec Reborn\" claims to have hacked into the private information of 170,000 members of a military dating website. However, the owner of the website disputed the claim, since the dating service has only 140,000 members.
April 02, 2012 -
The Air Force is hoping that its USA Staffing Onboarding Manager tool can help it slash the time it takes to hire civilians.
April 02, 2012 -
Agencies have to meet a series of milestones starting in June to eventually migrate two commodity IT functions to shared services or strategic sourcing contracts. VA, GSA, Interior and Patent and Trademark Office have tested the concept of managing by portfolios as well as vendor management organizations.
April 02, 2012 -
The latest plan is to build nine ships a year for the next three decades — and then renovate the others, the Navy Times reports.
March 30, 2012 -
The U.S. military is watching Mali very carefully. Five African presidents seeking to restore Mali\'s elected government are now meeting in Ivory Coast, after the planes carrying the heads of state to Bamako were forced to turn around because demonstrators supporting the military junta took over the tarmac, officials said. The presidents of Ivory Coast, Benin, Liberia, Niger and Burkina Faso were due to arrive in Mali on Thursday to press for the departure of the junior officers that grabbed power in a coup last week, reversing over two decades of democratic rule.
March 30, 2012 -
Sequestration would kill hundreds of thousands of defense industry jobs, the Pentagon warns. Frank Kendall told senators during his nomination hearing to be the DoD acquisition chief that personnel accounts would be shielded so lower-tiered contractors would feel the brunt of cuts.
March 30, 2012 -
Federal technology leaders unveiled an initiative to develop better ways of harnessing the rapidly growing volume of increasingly complicated data sets, known as big data. The push is led by a joint solicitation — from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health — to develop the core technologies for reigning in big data. All told, six federal departments and agencies will take part in the program — committing more than $200 million in research-and-development investments.
March 29, 2012 -
Center CIO Mike Bolger said encrypting laptops and implementing logical access are among his top priorities in 2012. Kennedy Space Center also is exploring how to let employees using their personal smartphones or tablet computers on the network. March 29, 2012
March 29, 2012 -
Gregory Wilshusen, GSA\'s director of information security issue, discussed a recent report about IT supply chain risks with The Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp
March 29, 2012 -
Iris Cooper is executive director of VA\'s Office of Acquisition Operations. She joined The Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Emily Kopp at the Acquisition Excellence conference in Washington to talk about the agency\'s T-4 services contract.
March 29, 2012 -
The Pentagon is telling lawmakers military retirees' share of health care costs is going to have to increase if it's going to meet the budget targets Congress and the President handed over with last year's budget control act.
March 29, 2012 -
The Defense Department has launched a public challenge to develop mobile apps. DOD wants apps that aid in learning science, technology, engineering and math. The contest runs from April 2 to June 4.
March 29, 2012 -
Ricardo Aguilera, the Defense Department Comptroller Chair at the Chief Financial Officer\'s Academy at the National Defense University\'s iCollege joined Pentagon Solutions with Francis Rose to discuss the course and the leadership skills it aims to enforce.
March 28, 2012 -
The departments of Veterans Affairs and Housing and Urban Development want to put 10,000 homeless veterans in permanent housing with case management.
March 28, 2012 -
The Army has released the implementation plan for how it will get its networked systems to a state it calls the \"common operating environment.\" The strategy is designed to phase out stovepiped systems and begin building technologies to a common set of open standards.
March 28, 2012