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Navy unexpectedly cancels CIO blog
The Navy CIO blog has been stopped, and archived posts are no longer available on the site.
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DOD blacklist authority could go too far, say small-biz advocates
Small-business groups say the 2011 Defense Authorization bill would allow DOD officials to secretly blacklist contractors and bar them from doing any business with the federal government.
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Treasury announces senior tech hires
Tim Duncan and David Forrest will be the senior technology leaders for the implementation team at the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau.
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Air Force buys tracking system for pilots of remote aircraft
Air Force operators of remotely piloted aircraft are getting a new set of software tools with which to track data and communicate with the military units they support.
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PlayStations power Air Force's green supercomputer
Cluster made of Sony PlayStation consoles gives Air Force green supercomputing on the cheap.
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Army PEO EIS gets new senior leader
Army Program Executive Office gets a new senior leader, promoted up through the ranks.
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DISA moves to eliminate contract redundancies
DISA's strategy for 2011 includes eliminating redundant efforts and putting more emphasis on competition.
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Army hires contractor to help with counter-IED effort
The Army has awarded a new contract to CACI-WGI to furnish various support services to the military organization responsible for developing tactics and tools to combat improvised explosive devices.
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Air Force bans use of removable media, under threat of court martial
The commander of Air Force Network Operations has issued a Cyber Control Order banning all removable media from use on SIPRnet in an attempt to stop leaks, according to a Wired.com report.
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Army brass assess progress toward modernization
An Army IT Day panel discussed programs and initatives designed to improve network connectivity to units, harness social media for information sharing, and modernize systems and equipment.
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Astronaut Alan Poindexter leaves NASA
Veteran NASA astronaut Alan Poindexter has left the agency to return to the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, Calif.
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Correction: Microsoft plans 'tracking protection' for IE 9
This article was corrected to reflect that the candidate version of IE9 will be available in early 2011 and that the statement from IDC analyst Al Hilwa was from a phone interview.
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Coalition success in Afghanistan rests on interoperability
Interoperability is crucial to the continued success of coalition military operations in Afghanistan, said Brig. Gen. Benjamin Hodges at Army IT Day.
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Army tackles massive network modernization
Army Acting Deputy CIO Mark Bowman outlined the principles the military service has established for modernizing communications and networking capabilities at Army IT Day.
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Army sees future of intelligence in the cloud
The Army intends to push vast amounts of the intelligence data it collects to a cloud environment.
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Former FBI cybersecurity exec joins Mandiant
Retired FBI official Scott O'Neal joins the IT security firm to head its federal business practice.
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Army faces communications challenges in Afghanistan
The multitude of hurdles in transition, network operations and infrastructure issues in the Afghanistan theater are making for serious struggles for the Army, said Brig. Gen. Lawrence Brock at Army IT Day.
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Army enterprise e-mail transition in full swing
The Army is well into its transition to an enterprisewide e-mail service and moving forward with plans to collapse its disparate networks into the Network Enterprise Technology/9th Signal Command, said Brig. Gen. Jennifer Napper at Army IT Day.
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Army CyberCom faces tough challenges getting started
Despite a scarcity of time and resources, deploying the Army Cyber Command within a newly established warfare domain is proving to be a task that remains riddled with ambiguity as the military takes on cyber warfare, said Maj. Gen. Rhett Hernandez, commander of the Army Cyber Command, on Dec. 9 at Army IT Day.
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