Tech
Wireless broadband systems could be vulnerable to attack
Systems using the popular WiMax standard have flaws making them susceptible to jamming, hacking and spoofing, analysts say.
Tech
What's Brewin': Beware of Zombies
Zombie computers infected with rogue software emanating from China, to be exact.
Tech
White House shifting to Internet-based communications
First phase of switch to IP standard appears to be for a mobile package to support the president during his travels.
Defense
Defense launches broad-based RFID procurement
Companies concerned about value, requirements of $75 million contract.
Tech
EPA to test use of RFID system to track hazardous waste shipments
Agency wants to get a better handle on waste generated by Mexican plants using raw materials from the United States.
Oversight
FAA to award contract to upgrade air traffic system
GPS-based system has proved to be “truly amazing” in tests in Alaska, commuter airline president says.
Tech
Playing Defense
Air Force rethinks its space defense options; thoughts of President Harry Truman still resonate.
Tech
What’s Brewin’: Clear as Mud
The Pentagon spends hundreds of billions of dollars on contracts, but it’s getting harder and harder to tell exactly how that money is spent.
Tech
Air Force plans huge follow-on contract for intelligence IT
Agreement will be worth more than $1 billion, but accelerated schedule and large scope prompt concerns about manageability.
Tech
What’s Brewin’: Organizational Chaos?
An entity aimed at fighting improvised explosive devices might be too big for its own good.
Defense
Web-based military health records system called bureaucratic, not technical, challenge
Commercial vendors say similar systems already are in place in the private sector.
News And Analysis
Clash Over Casualties
Battlefield medics resist push to stop using joint patient tracking system.
Oversight
VA could save billions using e-commerce technique, officials say
"Expressive commerce” system already generating savings for large private firms, senators told.
Defense
Surveillance tower raises suspicion in border town
Some in Arivaca, Ariz., are convinced the Homeland Security Department equipment is there to watch them, rather than the border.
Defense
Pentagon urged not to use ability to degrade GPS signals
It last happened in 1990; Bush administration has promised “uninterrupted access” to civilian GPS signals.
Defense
Pentagon still burdened with multiple back-office systems
Army official says service has 187 different financial management information systems.
Defense
What's Brewin': Inside the world of defense information technology
Army headquarters just loves iTunes.
Defense
Spread of RFID in Defense slower than expected
Full-scale implementation of requirement to use passive RFID systems to track supplies has been delayed.
Defense
High-tech border network could fall prey to cyberattacks
Secure Border Initiative Network relies on commercial wireless networks.
Tech
What's Brewin': Inside the world of defense information technology
Inside the world of defense information technology.
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