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WFED\'s Jason Miller gives an update on NARA\'s cancellation of the contract for the electronic records archive.
December 16, 2010 -
There are consequences to posting those Wikileaks documents. The Air Force has blocked access on its network to more than two dozen media outlets who have posted them. The Pentagon has warned personnel not to go to the Wikileaks site, but this takes it a step further. Meaning, US Air Force personnel will not be able to get to those sites from their military networks. Among those blocked are the Guardian and the New York Times.
December 15, 2010 -
One prominent defense analyst said Boeing executives have grown pessimistic about winning the $35 billion contract.
December 15, 2010 -
The Navy\'s Fleet Cyber Command said a lack of real-time visibility into their computer networks is a problem. A new operations center opening this week at Ft. Meade will let technicians see cyber attacks as they are happening.
December 14, 2010 -
High-resolution computer systems capable of networking around the world are being used by researchers at the Air Force Research Lab to build a new supercomputer. It holds the distinction of being one of the cheapest - and one of the greenest - supercomputers in the world because the systems being used are Sony PlayStation 3 game consoles - over 17-hundred of them. It\'s called the Condor Cluster project and it\'s being built entirely from off-the-shelf commercial components. Its creators say it could change the supercomputing landscape. The system is capable of making 500 trillion calculations per second -- and represents new ways for supercomputers to increase computational resources while using less energy. The Condor is currently considered the seventh-greenest computer in the world. It cost only 2 million dollars to build, whereas the cheapest comparable supercomputers would cost $50 million or more.
December 14, 2010 -
Politico reports that Boeing may be at a disadvantage to EADS for winning the Air Force tanker contract award.
December 14, 2010 -
The Navy has delayed awarding a contract to build 20 Littoral Combat ships.
December 14, 2010 -
ACU is out, MultiCam is in for troops headed to Afghanistan.
December 13, 2010 -
A paper by four senior Army officers and members of the faculty at West Point says the military’s use of social security numbers and other personal data put servicemembers at greater risk of identity theft…
December 09, 2010 -
Army.mil reports on the Army\'s use of simulated wounds to train medical staff.
December 08, 2010 -
Federal News Radio told you about the Army’s plans to bring smartphone technology to the battlefield within a year. If the service wants to issue every soldier some kind of smartphone, the move could turn…
December 08, 2010 -
The Washington Post reports that a Navy intelligence officer is accused of leaking classified documents.
December 07, 2010 -
The U.S. Army has awarded Oshkosh $255 million to build 250 Mine Resistant Ambush Protected All-Terrain Vehicle (M-ATV) ambulances for Afghanistan.
December 06, 2010 -
Computer networks and social networks depend on interaction between individuals -- whether it\'s individual machines or human beings. The science of these complex interactions shares some common underlying themes, and a team of Army researchers hopes that examining these networks will provide feasible solutions.
December 06, 2010 -
Several of the most promising technological research projects at University System of Maryland-related labs are getting a strategic infusion of federal cash to help them through the most difficult phase of development, and toward the commercial market. Maryland\'s Jacques Gansler explains.
December 06, 2010