The Transportation Security Administration and the Liberia Civil Aviation Authority yesterday announced the successful implementation of cooperative efforts to enhance aviation security, with flights beginning between the United States and Liberia as early as fall 2010. TSA has worked closely with LCAA to adopt the necessary security protocols for sustainable aviation-security institutions and practices, and [...]

While green IT has been a hot topic in the last few years, real progress has been slow, and the industry is highly unlikely to reduce its carbon emissions by 2020, according to a new survey. Sponsored by Fujitsu, the “Green IT: The Global Benchmark” surveyed more than 600 CIOs and IT managers to determine [...]

According to the latest ruling out of the Ninth Circuit Court, it’s perfectly legal for federal agents to secretly plant a GPS locator on your car in the middle of the night, even if it’s parked in your driveway, and then use said locator to track your movements as they see fit. Even without a [...]

The Certification Commission for Health Information Technology and the Drummond Group Inc. were yesterday named the  first technology-review entities authorized to test and certify electronic health record systems for compliance with the standards and certification criteria issued by the Department of Health and Human Services earlier this year. EHR vendors can now begin to have [...]

Three compilations of historic NASA images have been released on The Commons on Flickr, the results of a collaboration between Flickr , the space agency and the Internet Archive. NASA is encouraging visitors to The Commons to add tags or keywords to the images to identify objects and people. In addition, viewers can communicate with [...]

In a memo addressing the Intelligence Community, Director of National Intelligence James R. Clapper warns about “blabbing secrets” to the media, calling leaking classified information a practice that is not “in.” “We have established procedures for authorized officers to interact with the media,” Clapper wrote in the memo. “For everyone else, unauthorized disclosure of our [...]

The 30th anniversary edition of the world’s largest military exposition focusing on enhanced capabilities for expeditionary forces will be presented at Marine Corps Base, Quantico, Va., Sept. 28-30. The Modern Day Marine Military Exposition will celebrate that anniversary by continuing a tradition of leadership in the defense trade show industry with various special programs and [...]

Tomorrow, after more than seven years of war, President Barack Obama will end the U.S. combat mission in Iraq. In his Weekly Address, Obama talked about the end of the war in Iraq and what his administration is doing to support U.S. veterans once they get home. Vice President Joe Biden issued a statement in [...]

The Department of Defense has launched a fitness challenge for its civilian workers with the goal to record 1.5 million hours of physical activity by Oct. 31. DoD’s Civilian Personnel Policy Office is sponsoring the “Leap Into Fall” campaign, which began Aug. 16, Kathleen Ott, acting deputy undersecretary of defense for the office, said during [...]

Small businesses won a record $96.8 billion in federal prime contracts in 2009, an increase of more than $3 billion from the previous fiscal year, according to the Small Business Administration. According to SBA’s fourth annual small-business procurement scorecard released last week, this amount represents 21.89 percent of all federal spending, which is an improvement [...]