National & World Headlines

  • The House Oversight and Government Reform Committee found agencies manually input data into grants, contracts and loan systems. The committee also said at least 10 agencies don\'t have good oversight of the data quality.

    September 07, 2011
  • Al-Qaida is weaker and the United States has become stronger and safer since 9/11, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta said in a speech he made after touring the National September 11 Memorial and Museum.

    September 07, 2011
  • A recently fired IT worker --David Palmer -- broke into the military contractor\'s computer system and wiped out payroll files while eating a burger at a sports bar.

    September 06, 2011
  • Hacker group Anonymous stole and leaked 90,000 military email addresses and passwords from Booz Allen Hamilton in July, and they are not done.

    September 06, 2011
  • The Army is planning a 2012 release for a major information technology contract. Request for proposals are set for the second quarter on the 10-year, $5 billion dollar IT Enterprise Solutions-3 Hardware contract.

    September 06, 2011
  • The Air Force has awarded Georgia Tech Applied Research Corporation a $50 million contract to evaluate the service\'s inventory of sensors. The Atlanta company will survey the sensor market and test how well different devices work and will also look at new ways for the military to use sensors.

    September 06, 2011
  • On today\'s Federal Drive: Veterans Affairs announced it will release its open-source EHR code, SSA announces new rules on banned visitors and the USPS prepares to testify about its dire financial straits.

    September 06, 2011
  • The Department of Veterans Affairs celebrated the opening of the online portal where development on its electronic health record system will proceed using an open source model. The effort could fundamentally change the way the government tackles large IT projects, VA\'s chief information officer said.

    September 06, 2011
  • Even though it\'s a federal holiday, the one when working folks are supposed to rest, Uncle Sam has millions of lifeguards — civilian and military — on duty today. For obvious reasons. And even if you can\'t see them, they are there, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says.

    September 05, 2011
  • The Defense Department is poised to once again miss its small business contracting goal, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says in a memo just issued to the department\'s leadership.

    September 02, 2011
  • Robyn Kehoe, the director of field operations at FEEA, joined the Federal Drive to discuss a program that pays for college for the children of parents lost in the 9/11 attacks.

    September 02, 2011
  • Federal cyber professionals are worried about vague language in proposed changes to the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement or DFARS, according to a new surveyfrom CTOVision.com.

    September 02, 2011
  • More than $2 billion as been paid — so far — to Vietnam veterans and their survivors who filed claims related to Agent Orange, after the VA last summer added to the list of diseases thought to be related to exposure.

    September 02, 2011
  • A year after a scandal upended the leadership at Arlington National Cemetery, the Army is making swift progress toward creating a single database of all those interred at the site. Soldiers are using iPhones to record information and submit it to analysts to check the data against existing records.

    September 02, 2011