Acquisition
Readers react: The problems with the DOD acquisition workforce
Our recent story about the defense acquisition workforce struck a nerve with a lot of readers, who have pretty strong ideas about what needs to be fixed.
Modernization
Cartwright: Military must use IT to be more adaptable
To fight constantly evolving enemies, U.S. forces must be faster at deploying IT systems to warfighters, said the vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
Cybersecurity
Administration will review FISMA metrics
OMB said it will review the metrics agencies use to report their compliance with the Federal Information Security Management Act.
Modernization
Education technology gets millions
The economic stimulus law provides $650 million for school purchases that include computers, networks and instructional software.
Modernization
Navy considers Web 2.0 tools
The Navy will likely deploy its own versions of social media technologies such as Facebook and Wikipedia for use on internal networks, Navy Department CIO Robert Carey said.
Acquisition
Obama: Big changes coming in federal contracting
President Obama wants more oversight of no-bid contracts and wants agencies to review their existing contracts to identify waste.
Digital Government
Defense urged to develop software for warfighting systems quicker
Lengthy software development cycle fails to account for rapidly changing requirements, official says.
Ideas
Obama Still Hearts YouTube
Tech Insider <a href="http://techinsider.nextgov.com/2009/03/no_more_youtube_for_obama.php">cited yesterday a report</a> that the White House had dropped YouTube as its platform for Obama's weekly addresses. "After taking some heat from privacy advocates, the Obama administration has switched from using YouTube to post President Obama's weekly addresses to Vimeo."
Digital Government
That's Counterintelligence, No Spaces
Evidently I have some real eagle-eyed readers in the intelligence community, because I received a note pointing out that I had a slight misspelling when referring to counter-intelligence in <a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/02/thumb_drives_like_unsafe_sex.php>my continuing coverage</a> of the thumb-drive ban.
Digital Government
Panel: DOD needs experienced procurement people
Former defense officials agreed that the Defense Department can't make better purchasing decisions without experienced acquisition people.
Modernization