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Navy wants to grow sailors' brains with iPhone app
Wired reports that the Navy wants businesses to produce an app that stimulates sailors' minds.
Tags: DoD Report , apps , technology , brain growth , Dorobek Insider
Adm. Greenert: We'll cut programs that aren't working
Troubled weapons programs will fall victim to the budgetary ax as the service tries to spend its money more wisely.
Tags: In Depth , Francis Rose , Jonathan Greenert , CSIS , DoD ,
Yemen is still a problem
Yemen has been a trouble spot for more than a decade and explosives have always been the problem and they've always been relatively small. It was in 1998 that the U.S.S. Cole, a Navy Destroyer was attack while in Yemen. 17 sailors were killed and 39 were injured. A small craft approached the port side of the destroyer, and an explosion occurred, leaving a 40-by-40-foot gash in the ship's port side. The toner cartridges with the explosive PETN in them that were discovered aboard planes in the UK and Dubai last week contained only a small amount, but had they gone off, they would've inflicted maximum damage.
Tags: DoD , Pentagon & Beyond , Pentagon , J.J. Green ,
Navy asks Congress for both LCS designs
Rival teams from Lockheed Martin and Austal USA have been waiting all year to see which of their designs would be chosen for the U.S. Navy's Littoral Combat Ship (LCS) competition. Now, if the Navy gets permission from the lame-duck Congress, the winner could be: both.
Tags: Federal Drive , DoD Report , Defense , DoD , LCS , contracting , Lockheed Martin , Austal USA , Littoral Combat Ship
Navy on course to meeting energy conservation on ships
The service has reached an important first milestone in its effort to achieve a key energy conservation goal with last week's test of the first experimental ship to operate using algae-based bio-diesel fuel.
Tags: technology , DoD , Coast Guard , Air Force , Ray Mabus , Phillip Collum , biofuel , biodiesel , Max Cacas
Navy sets course for agile IT development
Across the government, chief information officers are being asked to modernize technology systems more quickly and in smaller, more modular programs -- and for less money. But what happens when your network is on a moving ship?
Tags: technology , DoD , David Weddel , Charles Smith , James Syring , AFCEA D.C. , software development , agile development , Max Cacas
Cyber workforce cannot be a zero sum game
Agencies and industry are trading employees with specific technology skills, but in the end both need to increase the overall workforce. One expert calls for the professionalization of cybersecurity workers. Agencies are finding new ways to recruit these in-demand employees.
Tags: technology , management , Phil Reitinger , Kevin Cooley , DHS , Jim Lewis , Susan Aldridge , CSIS , University of Maryland , Deloitte , cybersecurity , cybersecurity workforce , training , Jason Miller
Carey to become new Defense deputy CIO
Rob Carey is following Dave Wennergren for a third time. Carey will become the new Defense Department deputy chief information officer as of Oct. 24,
Tags: technology , Rob Carey , Dave Wennergren , Teri Takai , DoD , CIO , Jason Miller
Navy's Guidance aims to improve efficiency
The Navy's new Guidance for 2011 marks bold steps toward improving the efficiency of naval operations, and hard decisions will have to be made about buying weapons that are truly needed, not just desired.
Tags: DoD Report , Gary Roughead , guidance , management , Dorobek Insider
Navy cashes in on going cashless
The U.S. Department of the Treasury Financial Management Service and the U.S. Navy recently completed the rollout of the Navy Cash Stored Value Card program across the entire active Navy Surface Fleet. Graham Mackenzie, a spokesman for Navy Cash, joins us with details.
Tags: Federal Drive , management , stored value card , navycash , Graham Mackenzie
