Senate signs off on several Defense appointments
Senators confirmed Phillip Jackson Bell as deputy undersecretary for logistics and materiel readiness, Ronald M. Sega as undersecretary of the Air Force and Keith E. Eastin as the assistant secretary of the Army.
CDC management support contract awarded to BearingPoint
The contract is to support the CDC's Coordinating Office for Terrorism Preparedness and Emergency Response.
GSA issues information request for WITS 3 telecom contract
The Washington Interagency Telecommunications System 3 will replace the current WITS2001 contract that expires in January 2008.
HUD picks McDonald Bradley for Web support
The company will manage Web content, mailing lists, bulletin boards, webcasts and online promotions for activities sponsored by the department's Office of Community Planning.
Black Hawk up
The Army's Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville, Ala., is using dashboards to help coordinate its Black Hawk helicopter modernization program.
Dashboards: cool tool
Are we there yet?
Leadership changes at Defense biometrics office
John Woodward Jr., who has been serving as director of the BMO since fall 2003, has resigned. Joseph Guzman has been named acting director.
CSIA advises feds to promote telework as continuity measure
Federal agencies should do more to allow their employees to work at home so that government can continue operations in the event of a terrorist attack, according to a network-security policy group.
OPM settles ' again ' on Monster for USAJobs Web site
The Office of Personnel Management has decided to keep Monster Government Solutions on to run the USAJobs.gov Web site.
FDA CIO Rinaldi leaves, Farmer steps in
The Food and Drug Administration today named Fred Farmer acting CIO, after Jim Rinaldi moved to NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
Justice may get privacy officer, more data-sharing
The House Judiciary Committee has cleared a version of the Justice Department authorization bill that includes provisions for a privacy officer under the attorney general and improved federal data-sharing with state and local law-enforcement.
Air Force enlists SRA International for continuity work
The Air Force has awarded a task order to SRA International Inc. to provide support for continuity command-and-control processes for service headquarters.
DOD drafts BearingPoint for personnel management support
The Defense Department has awarded a five-year contract to BearingPoint Inc. for program management support to the DOD unit that is the central repository of current and historic personnel information.
Alexander takes over at NSA
Army Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander starts today as the 16th director of the National Security Agency and chief of the Central Security Service.
Former Air Force CIO lands at SRA International
After spending almost 25 years in government, John Gilligan is joining one of the country's largest systems integrators.
Air Force investigations unit awards contracts to CSC
The Air Force Office of Special Investigations has awarded two contracts to Computer Sciences Corp. to provide technical services and project support to the unit.
Wireless access security tool moves past prototype stage
WaveSEC, an open-source tool that uses the IP Security protocol to encrypt IP connections between hosts, is moving toward implementation.
'Google hacking': Everything you want someone to know , and more
The functionality that has made Google a top search engine also can be used to reveal sensitive personal data, vulnerable servers and other details about network architecture.
Digital forensics moving from an art to a science
The Defense Cyber Crime Center is seeing a growing demand for its forensics services, and a growing demand for professionalism on the part of investigators.
PACKET RAT: Pay for performance vs. the devil you know
Having narrowly avoided perishing in the private sector during the economic backwash of the Internet bubble burst, more than a few hands on the Rat's org chart are happy to be collecting a civil-service wage'if nothing else, it's a reliable pay check. But they could be in for a rude shock.
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