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Coast Guard awards contract for electronic health record system
Service says it must move away from its current Defense Department medical network because it lacks interoperability.
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Defense seeks to expand ID cards for use at transit systems, ATMs
Electronic wallet feature could turn security badge into multipurpose card.
Digital Government
What's So Wrong with MUMPS?
I'm not talking about the disease -- although some folks treat it as such - but the software that is the heart of the Veterans Health Information Systems and Technology Architecture, the electronic health record system at the Veterans Affairs Department.
Digital Government
Shinseki's Call to IBM CEO
Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki personally called the chairman and chief IBM, Samuel Palmisano, this summer to express his dissatisfaction with the company's progress on development of a <a href=http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/193853.php>computer system</a> to process veterans' claims for ailments associated with Agent Orange, VA Chief Information Officer Roger Baker told the Senate VA Committee on Wednesday.
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Veterans Affairs CIO sees another year of no growth in IT spending
Roger Baker also tells senators he is pursuing an open source electronic health record system to keep the department's medical system the best in the country.
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Air Force Base Amnesia
When you lobby for an Air Force base, you end up with airplanes, a fact that the New Mexico congressional delegation has forgotten since 2005 when it pushed the Pentagon to keep Cannon Air Force Base in Clovis open when facing an early BRAC decision to close it.
Digital Government
Gates names Wennergren to new Defense management post
Deputy chief information officer takes over as assistant deputy chief management officer in the Office of the Deputy Secretary of Defense.
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Canada's VA Investigates Vet Critics
Veterans Affairs Canada has found a nifty way to try and derail high-profile veterans who complain about its failure to deliver services: investigate them in a manner reminiscent of how long time FBI director J. Edgar Hoover went after folks he did not like.
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Mix NSA, a cyber data center and sales scam, and you get a conspiracy theory
Israelis posing as students selling art in neighborhoods near an area where the National Security Agency plans to build a data center to track and respond to cyberattacks had locals dreaming up spy plots.
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Gates on Leadership and Irreverence
Defense Department Secretary Robert Gates gave a talk leadership to ROTC cadets at Duke University on Wednesday in which he said good leaders need both integrity and a sense of humor about themselves.
Modernization
VA considers dumb computers to save money, tighten security
Thin clients could cut PC maintenance costs in half, but IT managers should be prepared for stiff resistance from clinicians, who won't warm up to them, say private tech chiefs who have made the move.
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What Will Takai Do?
President Obama <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100930_1811.php?oref=topnews>withdrew</a> on Wednesday the nomination of California Chief Information Officer Teresa "Teri" Takai for the Defense assistant secretary for networks and information integration, a job that currently includes the Defense CIO title.
Digital Government
Obama pulls Takai nomination for Defense CIO
Defense Department reorganization prompted the move, which will calls for a stronger role for the tech chief.
Digital Government
McCain Fesses Up
The Defense Department would like to whittle down the number of reports it has to provide Congress every year as part of a project to cut $100 billion from its overhead during the next five years, Ashton Carter, Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, <a href=http://armed-services.senate.gov/statemnt/2010/09%20September/Carter%2009-28-10.pdf>told</a> the Senate Armed Services Committee on Tuesday.
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Cyber Command To Gobble Up DISA?
That's the word I'm picking up based on a combination of some good intel and speculation by more than a handful of knowledgeable gadget and gizmo graybeards.
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Defense brass tells Hill reasons for shutting CIO office
Combat commanders do not know which organization to ask for IT solutions, but industry worries the changes could lead to the top tech position not having the authority to manage systems properly.
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Twitter Uses NSA PR Playbook
At first glance there's no similarity between the oh-so-hip-microblogging service Twitter and the staid and secretive National Security Agency.
Cybersecurity
Army awards $1.2 billion contract for NSA data center in Utah
The massive facility will support the federal Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative to protect intelligence, Defense and civilian agencies' networks from cyberattacks.
Digital Government
Services nominate officers for key information systems positions
Air Force chooses commanders for the Electronic Systems Center and the 14th Air Force, while the Army names chief and deputy chief of staff.
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