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Bob Brewin

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Bob Brewin joined Government Executive in April 2007, bringing with him more than 20 years of experience as a journalist focusing on defense issues and technology. Bob covers the world of defense and information technology for Nextgov, and is the author of the “What’s Brewin” blog.

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From Nextgov.com: Health IT office awards contract to fight medical identity theft

June 12, 2008 The federal office overseeing the development of a national system of electronic medical records awarded a $450,000 contract on Wednesday to Booz Allen Hamilton to evaluate the scope of medical identity theft in the United States. Read the full story on Nextgov.com

FDA asks for $65 million to better track food contamination

June 11, 2008 The Food and Drug Administration would use millions of dollars in extra fiscal 2009 funds to upgrade its information technology to tie together multiple databases so it can better track food-borne diseases and possible adverse effects from medical devices, the agency's chief information officer said on Wednesday. Comment on this ...

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From Nextgov.com: FDA asks for $65 million to better track food contamination

June 11, 2008 The Food and Drug Administration would use millions of dollars in extra fiscal 2009 funds to upgrade its information technology to tie together multiple databases so it can better track food-borne diseases and possible adverse effects from medical devices, the agency's chief information officer said on Wednesday. Read the full ...

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Bush: Troops could miss paychecks, civilians could be laid off

June 9, 2008 President Bush warned in his national radio address on Saturday that the Defense Department will not be able to pay troops next month and civilian Defense workers could face layoffs if Congress does not pass the 2008 emergency war supplemental bill soon. In a related development, Defense Secretary Robert Gates ...

Spectrum Alert Déjà Vu

June 6, 2008 As my colleague Katherine McIntire Peters wrote in a prescient article in November 2002, what "oxygen is to life, the radio frequency spectrum is to modern living." This valuable resource is the lifeblood for gadgets and gizmos that we all take for granted, from the cell phones used incessantly by ...

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Army honors internal inventors

June 2, 2008 The Army last week unveiled its list of the service's top 10 inventions for 2007, with more than half the winners focused on protecting troops from improvised explosive devices, which have caused more than 40 per cent of the casualties in Iraq. The service said one winner, a new process ...

Army honors internal inventors

June 2, 2008 The Army last week unveiled its list of the service's top 10 inventions for 2007, with more than half the winners focused on protecting troops from improvised explosive devices, which have caused more than 40 per cent of the casualties in Iraq. The service said one winner, a new process ...

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Speeding Security

June 1, 2008 The TSA operation in Albuquerque finds that a focus on customer service leads to happier travelers-and improved security. Jennifer Ayers, a 22-year-old part-time Transportation Security Administration screener and full-time student in her senior year at the University of New Mexico, takes the security part of that equation very seriously. Ayers, ...

What's Brewin: Honoring medics, corpsmen on the real Memorial Day

May 30, 2008 I'm a traditionalist and believe Memorial Day should be a solemn occasion to honor those who have died in service of their county and not an excuse for a three-day weekend. So, today, May 30 - the real Memorial Day - I would like to pay tribute to the men ...

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From Nextgov.com: Bandwidth shortage threatens Army’s FCS plans

May 29, 2008 The Army's biggest modernization program, which relies on transmitting graphics-heavy data on the battlefield, faces a potentially crippling shortage of spectrum and bandwidth, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service. Read the full story from Nextgov.com