Defense Department
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eSecurity Planet reports a new phishing scam target military families.
November 03, 2010 -
The leadership of several key defense committees will change hands as a result of the 2010 midterm elections. The transfer of power is expected to reshape defense oversight in the House.
November 03, 2010 -
Changes in the Pentagon\'s contracting process are taken from Jacques Gansler\'s 2007 report commissioned by Army Secretary Pete Geren.
November 02, 2010 -
Army leaders promised to leave family support programs intact when looking for ways to lean out the service\'s massive budget.
November 01, 2010 -
Time is ticking on our government\'s ability to stop cyber terrorism. But the clock may have more ticks than people think.
November 01, 2010 -
The Harvard Business School completed a survey of how different branches of the military work in leadership positions.
November 01, 2010 -
Lovisa Williams writes in her blog that Gov 2.0 is not in a slump but in metamorphosis.
November 01, 2010 -
A pair of memos requires facilities worldwide to improve how they construct buildings to be more green and to use different light bulbs. The goal is to conserve energy, be environmentally responsible, and save taxpayer dollars.
November 01, 2010 -
Take down the websites used by extremists. British Minister of Security Pauline Neville-Jones called on the the U.S. to do that during a speech at the Brookings Institution. She also urged the U.S. to do more to stop militant threats without going to war. Neville-Jones pointed about Al Qaeda\'s leaders in Pakistan have shown \"startling resilience\" and their affiliates have both the intent and the capability to strike the West.
October 29, 2010 -
The Army Knowledge Online portal is one of the apps that is currently in use and evolving. Gary Winkler, head of the Army\'s Program Executive Office for Enterprise Information Systems, talked about it with the DorobekINSIDER.
October 28, 2010 -
The remains of two servicemen, missing in action from World War II, including one from Maryland were laid to rest yesterday. Army Air Forces Staff Sgts. Claude G. Tyler of Landover, Md. and Claude A. Ray of Coffeyville, Kan were both 24. Tyler was buried at Arlington National Cemetery, and Ray was buried in Fallbrook, Calif. They took off from an airfield near New Guinea on Oct. 27, 1943. They were to land near the Bismarck Sea, but the craft was lost. In August 2003 a Defense Department team received information on a crash site from a citizen in Papua New Guinea. That led to the identification of Tyler and Ray.
October 28, 2010 -
The service has reached an important first milestone in its effort to achieve a key energy conservation goal with last week\'s test of the first experimental ship to operate using algae-based bio-diesel fuel.
October 28, 2010 -
Bruce McConnell, Senior Counselor at the Department of Homeland Security\'s National Protection and Programs Directorate, joined the DorobekINSIDER to explain why the partnership between DHS and DoD are necessary and how that agreement will work.
October 27, 2010 -
USMC recruiters in Chantilly discovered in the early morning hours yesterday that their office had been hit by gunfire overnight while the building was being renovated. The recruiters had been working out of their Sterling, Virginia office. This was the third military facility that had been shot at in the same two week time frame. The Pentagon and the Marine Corp Museum had been hit by gunfire from the same weapon. Authorities in an Illinois suburb are also looking into the stabbing of a Marine recruiter that happened within that time period.
October 27, 2010 -
Seymour Hersh writes in the New Yorker about the EP-3E debacle that has fueled a debate on whether the military or civilians should take the lead in cybersecurity.
October 26, 2010