Cybersecurity boot camps are a start toward a skilled workforce
A year after the launching the U.S. Cyber Challenge, three universities are wrapping up the first series of security boot camps aimed at recruiting college students into the ranks of security professionals.
How to succeed with IPv6
The Navy's Space and Naval Warfare Systems Center Pacific is one of the few organizations in the U.S. government that operates its networks on Internet protocol version 6. The center's chief IT engineer shares lessons learned from years of operational experience.
Time to rethink the PC
Desktop PCs have been a blessing and a curse since the day they arrived. Here’s how to make living with them a little easier.
5 ways to ease desktop PC-induced pain
Check out these five ways agencies are trying to solve their love/hate relationship with PCs.
Cities add value to networks with new services
Each time a municipal services network takes on a new city service or application to support, it adds that much more value to the original network investment, writes Chip Yager, director of Motorla's Mesh Networks Product Group.
Android, iPhone platforms dominate Apps for Army
The Apps for Army challenge not only demonstrated a new model for dealing with the military’s notoriously cumbersome acquisition process. It also demonstrated the growing momentum Apple’s iPhone and Google’s Android operating systems are gaining inside military networks.
BlackBerry Storm owners can't upgrade the OS
BlackBerry 6 OS won’t work on Storm smart phones, but the Bold 9700, Bold 9650 and Pearl 3G will be getting the upgrade.
7 lessons from outsourcing failures
CIO Magazine finds 7 lessons from outsourcing failures around the country.
Lord: 'Wire power is firepower'
Air Force CIO calls for greater reliance on networks to multiply military effectiveness.
Google kills Wave
Google yesterday pulled the plug on Wave, the company's effort to provide a shared online communications hub.
Microsoft releases platform preview 4 of IE 9
Microsoft today released the fourth "platform preview" of Internet Explorer 9, the company's next-generation Web browser.
NIST releases guide to security automation protocol
The Security Content Automation Protocol automates much of the job of checking and validating security settings on IT systems, and NIST has developed recommendations for making the best use of it.
When technology fails: a cautionary tale from the Gulf
GCN Lab director John Breeden writes about his memories of another disaster in the Gulf of Mexico, and the literary project it inspired.
Does your laptop's battery keep going and going?
If battery life is paramount to you, the length of time your laptop keeps running outweighs other factors. And, overall, manufacturers have been making progress.
Chiarelli: Network must cover more than the battlefield
Army Vice Chief of Staff Gen. Peter Chiarelli tells LandWarNet conference that Army's network vision must be expansive.
Army becomes net dependent, CIO says
The Army has realized that the network is its primary resource, and traditional weapons systems are fading in prominence, CIO says.
Can the Apple iPad get any workplace respect?
Apple's iPad tablet computer is attracting some interested glances from government
EPA seeks crowdsourcing with early release of toxics report data
The EPA has released the preliminary data from the annual Toxics Release Inventory report so users can analyze it for themselves.
Cyber defense needs a good offense, Alexander says
Commanding general of the U.S. Cyber Command chief calls for a common operating environment, real-time awareness and “hunting inside our networks."
A computer that's light as a feather, but built for battle
General Dynamics Itronix introduces a computer that packs GPS and secure communications technology into an 8-ounce package that meets Mil-Std 810G specs for ruggedness.
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