Army digitizes Nazi documents
Since World War II, millions of images chronicling Nazi war crimes have gone unseen in reels of microfilm in the Army's Investigative Records Repository. Within a year, the images will be open to the public as historical documents, thanks to custom software that turned the poor-quality photographs into digital images.
... while webmasters pull sensitive information off Web sites
That giant scrubbing sound you hear is federal webmasters removing documents from their sites'data they believe would pose a danger to Americans if used by terrorist groups.
Advances now seen as urgent
The digital technology on display at last week's SGI Defense Summit in Arlington, Va., would give soldiers perhaps their most important weapon: information.
14th Annual Post Newsweek Government Awards Gala
The Navy's Joseph R. Cipriano and the Mint's Jackie Fletcher took home Government Executive of the Year awards at the 14th annual Post Newsweek Tech Media Group awards gala in Washington last month, attended by about 1,000 federal and industry IT executives.
Services award contracts for support, upgrade
The Navy, Army and Army National Guard recently awarded multimillion-dollar contracts for midsize to large-scale IT projects. And an Air Force command is deploying a new system for wireless LANs.
Navy reboots quickly after Sept. 11
The Navy lost 70 percent of its Pentagon office space when a hijacked jetliner crashed into the building on Sept. 11. But within a week'with the help of contractors'the department was back at work.
Pentagon invites vendors to brainstorm
Defense Department's <b>Pete Aldridge</b> last month issued a broad announcement seeking industry and academic ideas for fighting terrorism. Military officials are specifically seeking concepts and technologies to combat terrorism, defeat difficult targets, conduct protracted operations in remote areas and develop countermeasures to weapons of mass destruction.
SGI agrees to help Air Force R&D
The Air Force Space Warfare Center has signed a cooperative R&D agreement with SGI Federal of Silver Spring, Md., to help develop, test and evaluate certain command and control technologies.
DOD adopts telework policy
The Defense Department has signed off on a policy that will allow up to 25 percent of eligible employees to work from home or an approved alternative work site as part of the federal Interagency Telework/Telecommuting plan.
Federal and industry execs take the spotlight
Joseph R. Cipriano of the Navy and Jackie Fletcher of the Mint were named government executives of the year at the Post Newsweek Government Awards gala in Washington Wednesday night. The ceremony, attended by about 1,000, was the 14th annual awards event sponsored by GCN.
Navy supply command awards $53m support contract
Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego will provide technical support services to the Navy under a $53 million contract awarded today.
DISA awards DGS two contracts of up to $3b
The Defense Department has awarded two contracts potentially worth $3 billion for lifecycle management of classified and unclassified portions of the Defense Information Systems Network Global Solutions requirement.
DOD gains allies in the fight to keep its spectrum
The Defense Department may have won its battle with the wireless communications industry over the use of radio frequency bands.
eArmyU portal takes enroll call
As a single mother and an enlisted Army sergeant at Fort Benning, Ga., it was hard for Andrea Pratt to juggle all of her responsibilities and attend college.
Army will build Web learning system
The Army plans to build a Web enterprise learning management system to train soldiers in their occupational specialties. As many as 1 million soldiers annually will be able to use the system to meet their work specialty requirements.
DOD looks to save millions with business plan
The Defense Department has signed off on a broad range of initiatives designed to improve business operations and save more than $200 million.
DOD awards contracts for DISN support
The Defense Department has awarded contracts potentially worth $3 billion to Science Applications International Corp. of San Diego and SETA Corp. of McLean, Va., to support lifecycle management of the Defense Information Systems Network.
DOD starts over on contested telecom contract
The Defense Department on Tuesday reissued a request for proposals from five telecommunications companies to add fiber-optic services to the Defense Research and Engineering Network.
Navy, Army, Guard award IT contracts
The Navy, Army and Army National Guard each has awarded multimillion-dollar contracts for large-scale IT projects.
Defense review focuses on IT
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld's Quadrennial Defense Review calls for increased spending on technology and a focus on the likely new battlegrounds of the 21st century'including space and cyberspace.
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