Reporter's Notebook
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After having served as the staple for mobile communications within the Navy for a dozen years, the venerable BlackBerry is finally on its way out.
June 01, 2015 -
It\'s now been almost two years since the Defense Department issued a final rule requiring contractors to inform the government when their systems have been involved in cybersecurity breaches and that government technical data has been stolen.
June 01, 2015 -
Even before sequestration was first triggered in 2013, Defense officials warned that over the long run, the automatic cuts would cost money, not save it. A new review by the Government Accountability Office points out several instances in which that\'s exactly what happened.
June 01, 2015 -
The Technology Business Management (TBM) Council launched the Commission on IT Cost Opportunity, Strategy and Transparency (IT COST) May 14.
May 18, 2015 -
After 34 years in the Marine Corps, Brig. Gen. Kevin Nally is retiring.
May 18, 2015 -
The Department of the Navy plans to release the first of two requests for information this summer for the follow-on to NGEN, which could be worth $3.5 billion over five years.
May 18, 2015 -
Is patience running short among agencies over the Homeland Security Department\'s continuous diagnostics and mitigation (CDM) program?
May 18, 2015 -
Contractor associations are raising red flags over the General Services Administration\'s proposed rule for vendors to report 11 transactional data elements. And they are using data and expertise to make their case.
May 11, 2015 -
The Joint IT Single Service Provider-Pentagon is a much better name than the Pentagon Defense Information Service Agency Field Activity. But in the end, no matter what this new shared service office is called, Defense Deputy Secretary Bob Work signed off on the consolidation of redundant IT services options across the Pentagon Reservation and in the National Capital Region.
May 11, 2015 -
The Chief Information Officer\'s Council held a séance, pulled out its Ouji board and asked for the approval from Rip Van Winkle to raise the United States Government Configuration Baseline (USGCB), otherwise known as the Federal Desktop Core Configuration, from its long slumber.
May 11, 2015 -
Executive editor Jason Miller says that for all of the Obama administration\'s reluctance and push-back against the Data Transparency Accountability Act as it was going through Congress, give them credit for meeting the first major statutory deadline of the law on May 7.
May 11, 2015 -
In this week's Inside the DoD Reporter's Notebook, Jared Serbu reports language explicitly barring another BRAC round appeared last week in the House readiness subcommittee's contribution to the annual Defense authorization bill.
April 27, 2015 -
The military services, like Congress, are concerned about losing their small suppliers, particularly when they provide critical parts that are must-have components of modern weapons systems.
April 27, 2015 -
The DoD IG believes that investigations into alleged misconduct by DoD officials can be cut roughly in half by 2017 if the department follows the recommendations it delivered in a report released publicly last week.
April 27, 2015 -
Sens. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) wrote to Defense Secretary Ash Carter asking him to launch an investigation into possible whistleblower retaliation.
April 27, 2015