IT security

“People are going to get in. We need to start designing a different strategy that accepts the network is permeable and designs around instead what’s on the network. The network isn’t valuable, it’s the data on the network, that at rest and being used.” Read More...

Desktop Services

Over the next 5 years virtualization and open source computing are going to dramatically increase productivity and radically transform the desktop environment. Read More...

Green Computing

The emphasis is not just on virtualization, it’s creating an ecosystem. The idea is to integrate the demand curve with cooling and electricity. . Read More...

Tech Watch: Mobile IT

Dynamic government is mobile; secure wireless is the norm; and anywhere, anytime access to data and robust IT applications are expected as baseline services. That’s not for future government, that’s for today’s government. Read More...

Tech Watch: COOP

FPC-65 defines COOP as the activities that ensure essential functions are performed. This includes delineating essential functions; specifying succession plans and emergency delegations; safekeeping of vital records and databases; identifying alternate sites; providing interoperable communications; and validating the capability through tests, training, and exercises. Read More...

Network Centric Solutions

Network-Centric capabilities allow the force to attain an improved information position that can partially ‘lift the fog of war’ and enable commanders to improve their decision making and fight in ways that were not previously possible. Read More...

DHS

DHS is targeting five priority goals essential to preserving freedom and privacy, meeting future challenges and fulfilling its mission of securing America. To provide its 208,000 personnel the tools and support they need to meet these goals, DHS is seeking $50.5 billion in FYO9 – an increase of 6.8% over FY08. Read More...

PEO-EIS Catalog

The Program Executive Office was established in 1987 as Program Executive Office, Standard ArmyManagement Information Systems (PEO STAMIS) to helpimplement the Goldwater-Nichols Act. The Army Reorganization on October 26, 2001 resulted in the change to Program Executive Office, Enterprise Information Systems (PEO EIS). Read More...

PEO-EIS Guidebook

To date, more than 16,000 individuals have been placed on the Department of Defense Biometrics Watchlist (a list of identities of interest to the Department), including more than 1,800 high value targets; more than 1,600 insurgents have been placed on ‘security hold’ – significant milestones in force protection. Read More...

Alliant Contract Report

Alliant and Alliant Small Business (SB) are GSA’s enterprise flagship GWACs; built to service your IT requirements for the next 10 years. Read More...

DISA Guidebook

In today’s connected world, those who would do us harm are connected perhaps more effectively than we are. According to a recent article in “Wired” magazine (“How Technology Lost the War: In Iraq, the Critical Networks Are Social – Not Electronic”, November 27, 2007) insurgents in Iraq “cherry pick” the best U.S. technology – disposable email addresses, anonymous Internet accounts, and the latest radios. Read More...

Network Management

Every function of a government agency relies in some way on a robust and secure network and the intangible skills of the enlightened network manager. Read More...

Emergency Preparedness & Response

P25 compliant systems are being increasingly deployed with radios able to communicate in analog and digital mode providing a high degree of equipment interoperability, compatibility and economy of scale. Read More...