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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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Hack steered Coast Guard e-learning users to al Jazeera site

April 8, 2008 Last summer, hackers manipulated the Coast Guard's E-Learning system so that users were redirected to a Web site operated by al Jazeera, an Arab news organization, said the service's chief information officer. Comment on this article in The Forum.Field information systems security officers informed the Coast Guard Computer Incident Response ...

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New intelligence sharing strategy shifts from ‘need to share’ to ‘responsibility to provide’

April 4, 2008 Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks exposed the problems that result from tightly compartmentalized information, intelligence agencies have moved from a "need to know" culture to a "need to share" approach recommended by the 9/11 Commission and enshrined in the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Protection Act. Mike McConnell, director ...

Intelligence sharing strategy shifts from 'need to share' to 'responsibility to provide'

April 4, 2008 Since the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks exposed the problems that result from tightly compartmentalized information, intelligence agencies have moved from a "need to know" culture to a "need to share" approach recommended by the 9/11 Commission and enshrined in the 2004 Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Protection Act. Comment on this ...

What's Brewin: Now it's 'responsibility to provide'

April 4, 2008 First there was "need to know" when it came to intelligence. Then after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks exposed the problems that result from tightly compartmentalized information, the country's intelligence community moved to a "need to share" culture. That has met more than its share of resistance, according to folks ...

Defense radio program not fully tested, GAO reports

April 1, 2008 The Defense Department's program to develop advanced radios to connect soldiers over a vast network has lagged because of a lack of security certifications and technologies that are fully developed and ready to use, according to a report released on March 31 by the Government Accountability Office. Comment on this ...

Some Defense program costs up as much as 323 percent, report finds

April 1, 2008 Key Defense Department electronics, satellite and communications programs have experienced significant schedule delays and cost overruns as high 323 percent, the Government Accountability Office detailed in its annual report to Congress on 72 major weapon systems programs released on Monday. Comment on this article in The Forum.The cost to modernize ...

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Focus on outcomes will advance Army health care, surgeon general says

March 28, 2008 The Army should adopt the combat medicine practices used in Afghanistan and Iraq and shift its medical model away from one focused on costly processes to one based on health outcomes, its surgeon general said. The Army practices "effects-based" medicine in Afghanistan and Iraq, which includes investing in such services ...

Surgeon General: Focus on outcomes will advance Army health care

March 28, 2008 The Army should adopt the combat medicine practices used in Afghanistan and Iraq and shift its medical model away from one focused on costly processes to one based on health outcomes, its surgeon general said. Comment on this article in The Forum.The Army practices "effects-based" medicine in Afghanistan and Iraq, ...

What's Brewin' Column: Bye-bye public circuit buys

March 28, 2008 A free society is based on the uninhibited flow of information, but sometimes the amount of information put out by the Defense Department makes no sense. Take the way the Defense Information Systems Agency buys point-to-point circuits on what used to be a publicly accessible bulletin board operated by the ...

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National health records network to expand

March 27, 2008 The federal office in charge of creating a national network that intends to allow clinicians to exchange electronic health care information plans to expand the system this year to include electronic health records maintained by federal agencies as well as personal health records developed by "entrepreneurial organizations," a top official ...