IRS Hearing Gets Heated
Rocks, Guns and the Border Patrol
Budget Winners and Losers
Have Feds Gotten 25% of the Year Off?
The 'Pitiful' 1 Percent Pay Raise
Obama’s $26B ‘Wish List’ for the Pentagon
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Bob Brewin
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Bob Brewin joined Government Executive in April 2007, bringing with him more than 20 years of experience as a journalist focusing on defense issues and technology. Bob covers the world of defense and information technology for Nextgov, and is the author of the “What’s Brewin” blog.
Cyber Commander New A.F. CIO
May 12, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
The Air Force said President Obama will nominate Maj. Gen. William T. Lord for promotion to a three-star rank and a new assignment as the service's chief information officer and chief of warfighting integration. Lord, who is currently commander of the Air Force Cyber Command (Provisional) at Barksdale Air Force ...
Opposition to Obama's call to cancel navigational system growing
May 12, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
Congress and the geospatial industry are voicing opposition to President Obama's proposal to kill a decades-old navigational system that could serve as a backup to the popular and prevalent GPS. Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine, planned to question Homeland Security Department Secretary Janet Napolitano about the administration's plan to cancel the ...
Hot GPS Meeting This Week
May 11, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger will chair a meeting of the National Space Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Advisory Committee Advisory Board at the Chevy Chase Pavilion Hotel in Washington on May 14 and 15. I have a feeling it will be a hot one. Last week, the Government ...
Debate heats up over cancellation of GPS backup system
May 11, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
The same day the that the Obama administration confirmed it planned to cancel a GPS backup system, the Government Accountability Office issued a report warning that delays in launching new satellites could imperil the performance of the navigational system. In his budget issued on May 7, President Obama recommended killing ...
The AHLTA Definition Contest
May 8, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
As dedicated What's fans know, AHLTA, the Defense Department's electronic health record system, used to be known as an acronym standing for the Armed Forces Health Longitudinal Technology Application. But, as Pecksniffian readers pointed out to me in February, an Oct. 11, 2006, internal memo on the Military Health System ...
Familiar Faces On Baker's Bench
May 8, 2009
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At the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee hearing on the nomination of Roger Baker as chief information officer of the Veterans Affairs Department on May 6, committee chairman Daniel Akaka, D-HI, asked Baker to introduce any of his friends in the audience. Baker introduced individuals who may not be household names ...
Single Web site key for vets' combined medical, benefits record
May 8, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
The Veterans Affairs Department said in its proposed fiscal 2010 budget released on May 7 that it has placed a high priority on building a virtual lifetime electronic record, which will follow soldiers from active duty through their retirement, an initiative that the yet-to-be-confirmed VA chief information officer said last ...
The Budget: A 'Scintillating' Read
May 7, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
The fine print and programmatic details of President Obama's proposed fiscal 2010 budget runs 1,380 pages in an appendix, with each and every page worth a perusal, OMB director Peter Orszag told a press briefing this morning. Asked by a reporter to identify highlights in that heavyweight tome, Orzag declined ...
Future Combat Systems Minus Vehicles
May 7, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
As expected, the Obama administration took a budget axe to the Army Future Combat Systems program. It chopped all of the project's eight manned ground vehicles from the program for a savings of $22.9 billion, according to the Terminations, Reductions and Savings section of the proposed fiscal 2010 federal budget ...
Veterans Affairs seeks 6 percent hike in IT spending for fiscal 2010
May 7, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
Eric Shinseki, secretary of the Veterans Affairs Department, promised to use information technology to transform the department into a 21st century organization, and requested a more than 6 percent increase in its fiscal 2010 IT budget to meet that goal. VA asked for $3.4 billion for IT, up $205 million ...
