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The Pentagon wants servicemen and women to use their own smartphones to develop apps and access the military's networks. Senior officials as early as next month will approve the technical standards for devices that run the Apple and Google operating systems.

Tags: technology , Anmy Torres , DoD , DKO , mobile apps , Go Mobile , iPhone , iPad , Android , Jason Miller

Tuesday - 03/29/2011, 07:13am EDT

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Latest cloud news from Federal News Radio

Federal News Radio spoke with the FBI and the Army about their various uses of cloud this week. Listen to the interviews by clicking the links below. Part 2: Fulgham says secure mobility will change the FBI In a two-part interview with agency chief information officer Chad Fulgham, Federal News Radio talks about the various [...]

Tags: Chad Fulgham , cloud computing , email as a service , FBI , Susan Lawrence

Saturday - 03/26/2011, 07:09pm EDT

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Army reconsider $323 M award to Boeing

The contract is for a new intelligence-gathering plane.

Tags: DoD Report , EMARSS , Northrop Grumman , contracting , L-3 Communications , Boeing , Dorobek Insider

Friday - 03/25/2011, 03:10pm EDT

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Army, Marines begin separate ERP rollouts

The Army and Marine Corps are both in the early phases of deploying logistics accountability systems that will replace a collection of disconnected, stovepiped IT systems and processes that have grown up since the 1960s. Though the systems share the same objective, they were made by different vendors, prompting questions from one member of Congress.

Tags: DoD , Congress , management , Marine Corps , Claire McCaskill , financial management , DoD budget , Enterprise Resource Planning , Drew Dwyer , James Amos , Senate Armed Services Committee , Jared Serbu , DoD Report

Tuesday - 03/22/2011, 07:35am EDT

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For Army, network tops modernization priorities

Susan Lawrence, the Army's newly-appointed Chief Information Officer members of the IT and communications industry that the service is focused on creating an end-to-end IT infrastructure, eliminating structures that required soldiers to train and live on one network, and deploy on another.

Tags: DoD , industry , Susan Lawrence , Mike Krieger , cloud computing , enterprise email , AFCEA , data center consolidation , Jared Serbu , DoD Report

Monday - 03/21/2011, 07:06am EDT

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