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Communications pioneer retires after 51 years

Melvin Russell, acting director of Defense Media Activity and visionary of the American Forces Radio and Television Service, has retired after 51 years of military and civilian service.

Tags: DoD , DoD Report , Melvin Russell , Federal Drive

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Social Media & the Pentagon: do opposites attract?

Charles "Jack" Holt III
Senior Strategist for Emerging Media
Defense Media Activity, Department of Defense
June 16th, 2009
(Reairs July 28th, 2009)

Tags: tech , blogger's roundtable , DoD , Techipedia , Intellipedia , Open Government & Innovations conference, transpa , social media , collaboration

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Agencies share social collaboration success stories

All over the Federal Government, agencies are trying to figure out how social collaboration applications fit into the mission of their organizations. Representatives from several government agencies offered best practice talks about their own encounters with web 2.0 during the recent Adobe Government Open Source Conference.

Tags: newsstand , Adobe Government Open Source Conference , MeriTalk , Tina Carriola , Idea Factory , Transportation Security Agency , Ken Fritzsche , Army Knowledge Online , Jack Holt , best practices

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Ft. Meade commander sees more growth after BRAC

In a column for Federal News Radio, Ft. Meade Commander Col. Dan Thomas says, "By this fall, the official worker population of Fort Meade will have grown to more than 48,000. This is 13,000 more personnel than we had three years ago - you do the math: if BRAC growth is 5,400, who are all these other people?"

Tags: Ft. Meade , Dan Thomas , BRAC , BRAC Impact , DISA , Defense Adjudications , Cyber Command , Army , DoD

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