Reporter's Notebook
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The White House is interested government procurement. No, not the Office of Management and Budget, which includes the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, but the actual West Wing.
February 16, 2015 -
The service's ambitious plan to replace its legacy communications circuits. with an everything-over-IP infrastructure that can handle voice, video, chat and lots of other collaboration tools looks like it's going to be delayed.
February 09, 2015 -
The Army Force Generation process is on its way out - apparently as a casualty of reduced force structure.
February 09, 2015 -
Energy has been a hot topic within DoD for the last several years, with each of the military services pledging to reduce their overall consumption and get at least 20 percent of their energy from renewable sources by 2020.
February 09, 2015 -
As part of a major public health campaign called the "performance triad" the Army wants its soldiers to have healthy exercise, nutrition and sleep routines.
February 09, 2015 -
Agencies obligated more than $18 billion in spending against the Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract for IT services over the last five years. And one vendor got more than 10 percent of that revenue. In the latest edition of Inside the Reporter's Notebook, Federal News Radio Executive Editor Jason Miller writes about the winners under Alliant. He tells In Depth with Francis Rose about some of those interesting trends.
February 03, 2015 -
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Wanted: A cloud infrastructure where the vendor is responsible for not only the technology, but moving petabytes of data from legacy systems and making it all available on multiple form factors.
February 02, 2015 -
Bajinder Paul, who spent the last 17 months as the Federal Trade Commission's chief information officer, now is with the Federal Reserve Bank.
February 02, 2015 -
The Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract for IT services widely has been considered one of the most successful multiple award contracts over the last decade. Two recent blogs highlight some interesting trends.
February 02, 2015 -
Defense Information Systems Agency's top cybersecurity official, Mark Orndorff, will join us for both a radio interview and a live online chat this week.
January 26, 2015 -
In a nutshell, the Office of the Inspector General's auditors seem to feel that VA hasn't committed the resources it needs to achieve its vision of wrestling its programs into a framework of accountability.
January 26, 2015 -
The new Installation and Mission Support Center will be based at Joint Base San Antonio, the Air Force announced this week - disappointing other contenders in the communities around Scott AFB in Illinois, Joint Base Langley-Eustis in Virginia and Wright-Patterson AFB in Ohio.
January 26, 2015 -
A new Pentagon report shows a troubling proportion of DoD's IT systems appears to be vulnerable to low- or intermediate-level hackers, leaving aside the advanced persistent threats everyone's worried about.
January 26, 2015 -
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement directorate within the Homeland Security Department is on the CIO search once again.
January 19, 2015