National & World Headlines
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IBM has protested the Veterans Affairs Department\'s multi-billion dollar information technology contract, under the Transformation 21 Total Technology (T4) program.
August 05, 2011 -
Leon Panetta, in his first news conference as defense secretary, said a potential second round of Pentagon budget cutting, set up as a failsafe, by this week\'s debt-ceiling deal would be a doomsday scenario for the military. The additional $500 billion cut would be \"completely unacceptable,\" he added.
August 05, 2011 -
There is fact, and there is fiction, in defense spending under the debt deal says Winslow Wheeler, Director at the Straus Military Reform Project at the Center for Defense Information.
August 04, 2011 -
Marty Bollinger, senior vice president and director of aerospace and defense practice at Booz & Co. discusses the prospects for the Defense Department budget, the impact of the debt ceiling on industry and the implications U.S. debt will have on policy.
August 04, 2011 -
Rear Admiral Walter Carter of the Joint Enabling Capabilities Command joined the Federal Drive to discuss the disestablishing of the Joint Forces Command. He said, even in the wake of its closure, \'jointness\' in the military services would continue.
August 04, 2011 -
The Department of the Navy has issued two requests for information from industry, one on a public-private data center partnership model; another on commercial collaboration software as a service. The department must cut its IT business system spending by 25 percent.
August 03, 2011 -
Host Roger Waldron will talk government contracting with Mary Davie, assistant commissioner for the Integrated Technology Service at GSA\'s Federal Acquistion Service. August 2, 2011(Encore presentation August 16, 2011)
August 02, 2011 -
This \"environmentally responsive\" material would constantly adjust to outside conditions as well as body heat.
August 02, 2011 -
Ashton Carter would take over for Bill Lynn, who announced in July he is retiring.
August 02, 2011 -
Daniel Goure of the Lexington Institute discussed what exactly constitutes cyber warfare, the policy options DoD faces in the cyber domain and the role that industry can play.
August 02, 2011 -
The Navy is teaching middle school students in Alaska about autonomous, underwater gliders, which travel the oceans gathering information about temperature, depth and other measurements. The camp is part of the Navy\'s efforts to promote science and technology education.
August 02, 2011 -
On today\'s Federal Drive, more updates on how the debt-limit deal will affect agency budgets. Plus, NASA\'s green mission to Jupiter and why the National Security Administration is looking for new hires at a hacker convention.
August 02, 2011 -
Davis has been named the company\'s director of NORAD and Northern Command programs.
August 01, 2011 -
Government defense contractor Mantech is the latest victim of the hacking group Anonymous.
August 01, 2011 -
Todd Harrison, a senior at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments, analyzes the future of Defense spending.
August 01, 2011