Robert Gates, the U.S. Secretary of Defense, announced yesterday April 6, 2010, one appointment and one reassignment in the Department of Defense Senior Executive Service. Linda Allen was appointed to the Senior Executive Service. Allen was assigned as Director of the Acquisition and Procurement Office for the Washington D.C headquarters. Prior to this she served [...]
A federal appeals court ruled unanimously today that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) does not have the authority to require broadband providers to treat all Internet traffic moving through their networks equally. The three-judge panel of the DC Court of Appeals ruling is a major blow to the FCC’s National Broadband plan, and is big [...]
The U.S. federal government is working to reduce dependence on foreign oil by increasing the number of fuel-efficient hybrids. These vehicles also cut carbon dioxide and other pollution. GSA is going to be doubling the number of hybrids in their fleet this year and hopes to have 100 hybrid vehicles by next year. This effort [...]
Today is Health IT Day. AFCEA Bethesda Chapter is hosting the 2010 Health IT Day at the Bethesda North Marriott and Conference Center. The program began at 9 am and will continue until 5 pm. Some keynote speakers who will talk about the future of Health IT include Dr. Michael Dinneen, Director of Strategic Management, [...]
Researchers have found no significant relationship between the adoption of electronic health records and subsequent improvements in quality of care and efficiency, according to ModernHealthcare. Led by Catherine DesRoches, assistant professor at the Institute for Health Policy at Massachusetts General Hospital, researchers studied data from more than 2,900 hospitals and found no significant correlation between [...]
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano will travel to Madrid, Spain to attend the U.S.-European Union Justice and Home Affairs Ministerial Troika meeting, where she will discuss international cooperation to protect against terrorism and transnational crime, Press Secretary Clark Stevens announced yesterday. Napolitano will assess progress made on the joint declaration on strengthening the international [...]
According to a new draft policy letter published by OMB last Thursday, the Office of Federal Procurement Policy will expand its definition of “inherently governmental” soon. The OFPP will now use the definition from the Federal Activities Inventory Reform Act (FAIR Act) of 1998, replacing the definition from Subpart 7.5 of the Federal Acquisition Regulation. [...]
Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates announced last week the revamping of the Pentagon mentor program, which will prohibit senior mentors from divulging nonpublic information to outside entities, or representing another party before any part of the federal government on issues in which they participated personally while serving in their mentoring capacity. The new policy [...]
Following the Department of Defense-wide social-media policy issued in February for the Navy and Marine Corps, the Navy has begun taking steps toward tweaking its own policy regarding responsible and effective Internet use. In a March 26 blog post, Navy Department Chief Information Officer Rob Carey said his team, in conjunction with the Navy and [...]
Starting this month, Air Force officials won’t be able to use their BlackBerry devices to send text messages with photos or videos attached, or download new applications. These Department of Defense-directed changes will be overseen by security specialists in 24th Air Force, which is the operational warfighting organization responsible for defending Air Force network operations. “Just [...]