Defense Department
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Controlling your message is part of the game when you run a press shop. But Stars and Stripes reports the military has been grading reporters. The newspaper obtained documents showing that DOD rates reporters in…
August 31, 2009 -
Coast Guard wants to set up separate network to use social media sites. CIO Council looking at cybersecurity implications of these tools.
August 28, 2009 -
Four policemen were killed and another wounded in an explosion carried out by a suicide bomber in Shalinskiy District of Chechnya, yesterday. A spokesman for the Argunskiy interior department an unidentified man came up to…
August 25, 2009 -
There are some rather staggering numbers coming out of the war in Iraq. Four thousand soldiers killed in action, more than 34,000 wounded – and only six considered worthy of the nation’s highest military award,…
August 19, 2009 -
Many fundamentals are reiterated, while new threats are also identified.
August 13, 2009 -
The Defense Department’s success in using biometrics in Iraq and Afghanistan is inspiring the military to expand the use of identification technologies. DoD has several pilots or plans for tests to use biometrics in non-wartime…
August 05, 2009 -
By Emily Jarvis Internet Editor FederalNewsRadio Twitter, Facebook, podcasts and blogs are just a couple of the social media tools young people are using on a daily basis. Now the Department of Defense is trying…
August 03, 2009 -
The U.S. Army has picked two firms -- Clark Energy Group of Bethesda, and Acciona Solar Power of Henderson, Nevada -- to help develop and build the largest solar power array in the Department of Defense. It will be built at Fort Irwin, in California\'s Mojave Desert. When complete, the solar farm will generate 500 megawatts using photovoltaic cells, and solar concentrators, which turns the heat of the sun into electricity.
August 03, 2009 -
He also nominates new CPSC commissioner and chairwoman of Merit Systems Protection Board.
July 31, 2009 -
Defense Review process called flawed more than six months before release.
July 23, 2009 -
Aerospace Industries Association looks into policy decisions that affect certain sectors of the defense industrial base.
July 21, 2009 -
What happens when the Defense Department makes decisions that the defense industry can’t support? That’s the topic of a new study from the Aerospace Industries Association. Fred Downey is the Vice President of National Security…
July 20, 2009 -
A Pentagon advisory panel is preparing a report suggesting that the Defense Department has some work to do to in improving communications with industrial firms that provide goods and services to the military.
July 20, 2009 -
Service using special authority approved by Congress. New process brings on new procurement workers in as little as 17 days.
July 17, 2009 -
Delays in the processing time of claims at the Department of Veteran’s Affairs triggered the creation of a new electronic health record. But the House Veterans Affairs Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations wants to know…
July 16, 2009