Cybersecurity
Personal data exposed on Navy Web site
The breach could affect all Navy and Marine Corps aviators who served in the past 20 years.
Modernization
USDA seeks Farm Bill business systems
The Agriculture Department seeks information about applications that can automate farm program business delivery, including eligibility for benefit payments.<@SM>
Acquisition
Interior center to bolster e-authentication services
The National Business Center seeks pre-solicitation for products and services to support HSPD-12, HR line of business.
Cybersecurity
New HSPD-12 road map guides tech managers
IAC's document plots successful ID routes through the directive.
People
Argon ST buys defense wireless communications firm
The company paid about $41 million in cash for San Diego Research Center.
Modernization
FCC seeks comments to improve disaster comms
Proposed rules aim to restore the telecommunications infrastructure faster after a catastrophe.
Cybersecurity
Wright named acting US-VISIT deputy director
Longtime federal official is U.S. team leader of the technical working groups for US-VISIT implementation for both the Canadian and Mexican borders.
Acquisition
Virginia to end tax ambiguity for contractors
Rules had made it difficult for companies to predict whether some contracts would be taxable.
People
GAO: Attack warning systems over cost, behind schedule
Air Force efforts to upgrade systems by fiscal 2006 have been plagued by a lack of oversight and poor management, the report states.
Modernization
Supercomputer checks potential Discovery risks
The Columbia system, named in memory of the crew lost in the 2003 shuttle disaster, is assessing images of debris that affected Discovery during its ascent.
People
DHS names new operations director
Roger Rufe Jr., a retired Coast Guard vice admiral, replaced Matthew Broderick.
Modernization
IT comfort food (and no strained soup puns)
We scoured government and industry for a bad word about NASA’s Scientific and Engineering Workstation Procurement contract that counts 400,000-plus products in its catalog—and were hard-pressed to find one.
Modernization
GSA seeks Nextel sources
The agency has published a notice that it is looking for sources of Integrated Digital Enhanced Network-based cellular services under a contract awarded to Nextel in 2002.
Modernization
DARPA seeks leap in communications tech
Lumera awarded contract to build state-of-the-art polymer modulators, which will boost land-based and satellite radio links.
Modernization
GAO: Agencies are Networx-ready
However, at least two departments that GAO examined demonstrated significant deficiencies, according to a report.
People
USDA acts fast to fight soybean rust infection
An online early warning system the Agriculture Department put in place to help growers fight an infection targeting U.S. soybean crops has, by some estimates, saved farmers hundreds of millions of dollars.<@SM>
People