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Army asked to find the depth of danger at Detrick

U.S. Sen. Benjamin L. Cardin sent a letter to the Department of Defense Monday asking the agency to look into contamination at Fort Detrick and devise a plan by Dec. 1 to remedy the situation.

Tags: Federal Drive , Fort Detrick , Ben Cardin , Congressional Spotlight , Suzanne Kubota

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Army personnel use contest to apply themselves

After 53 proposals, the Army has named the winners of its "Apps for Army" competition.

Tags: Collaboration Center , Apps for Army , Jeff Sorenson

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Proposed Pentagon cuts make strange bedfellows

Five days after proposing controversial cuts in Pentagon spending, much of official Washington still is reeling. Defense Secretary Gates called for $100 billion in spending reductions over the next five years. Some of the proposals to achieve those savings are finding mixed reaction among officials on Capitol Hill and in industry.

Tags: management , DoD , Robert Gates , Roscoe Bartlett , J. Randy Forbes , Bob McDonnell , Gerry Connolly , Jeff Sorenson , Al Mink , SRA , budget cuts , INPUT , Max Cacas

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Army sends in tech squad to fix cemetery

CIO's office detailed experts to assess the problems, and formulate a plan to improve how Arlington National Cemetery manages and tracks veterans' records. Lt. Gen. Sorenson says the first thing is to ensure the data is correct. He says the end result could include an online capability to find out where loved ones are buried.

Tags: technology , Jeff Sorenson , John Schrader , Kathryn Condon , Army National Cemeteries Program , Arlington National Cementery , Al Mink , Bobbie Kilberg , SRA , NVTC , INPUT , data management , enterprise e-mail , data center consolidation , cloud computing , BRAC , Jason Miller

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Arlington Cemetery to get special tech support

Northern Virginia information-technology companies will help Arlington National Cemetery sort out bungled burial records, nudging it from index cards to computers. Bobbie Kilberg, President and CEO of the Northern Virginia Technology Council gives us the details

Tags: Federal Drive , management , technology , Arlington National Cemetery , Northern Virginia Technology Council , Bobbie Kilberg , Suzanne Kubota

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Joint military exercise fixes interoperability issues

The Pentagon and its coalition partners take to the Army base in Fort Huachuca, Ariz. to address actual data and communications problems found in Afghanistan. The exercise ensures U.S. systems can share data with the British, Canadian and other coalition partner systems.

Tags: technology , DoD , Joint Forces Command , Fort Huachuca , George Krakie , Empire Challenge 10 , intelligence , Surveillance and Reconnaissance , Max Cacas

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Aerospace protest won't slow tanker contract

A top App for Army is the Disaster Relief app for an Android

Tags: Federal Drive , Defense Update , DoD , Defense , GAO , AF tanker , contracting , Apps for Army

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Army sees bright future in new acquisition approach

The service names 25 software tools as winners in the Apps for the Army contest. Lt. Gen. Sorenson says the competition proves agile software development can be done well in the Army. He says a new memo is coming out that will change how the Army develops apps in the future.

Tags: technology , Jeff Sorenson , DISA , Apple , Google , RIM , Microsoft , Apps for the Army , LandWarNet , Forge.mil , mobile apps , Jason Miller

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Sammie nominee responded to Ft. Hood attack

Sgt. Mark Todd tells the DorobekInsider that he was "just doing his job".

Tags: pay and benefits , Sammies 2010 , Service to America Medals , Sgt. Mark Todd , Sgt. Kimberly Munley , Ft. Hood , Dorothy Ramienski , DorobekInsider

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Army prepares historic language training surge

Every soldier to be sent to Afghanistan will soon be required to complete language and culture training before being allowed to deploy. Federal News Radio gets the details of how that will be done from Col. Dino Pick, Commandant of the Defense Language Institute.

Tags: Federal Drive , DLI , Danial Pick , Defense Language Institute , Suzanne Kubota , language training

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