No Furloughs at Customs and Border Patrol
Uncharted Financial Waters at Defense
Postal Service Eyes Cuba
Should Leaders Ever Lie?
Unions: Efficiency Board Is 'Offensive,' 'Unwise'
Tangherlini as GSA's Mr. Fix-It?
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Bob Brewin
Editor at Large
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.
Speeding Security
June 1, 2008 The TSA operation in Albuquerque finds that a focus on customer service leads to happier travelers-and improved security. Jennifer Ayers, a 22-year-old part-time Transportation Security Administration screener and full-time student in her senior year at the University of New Mexico, takes the security part of that equation very seriously. Ayers, ...
What's Brewin: Honoring medics, corpsmen on the real Memorial Day
May 30, 2008
FROM NEXTGOV
I'm a traditionalist and believe Memorial Day should be a solemn occasion to honor those who have died in service of their county and not an excuse for a three-day weekend. So, today, May 30 - the real Memorial Day - I would like to pay tribute to the men ...
From Nextgov.com: Bandwidth shortage threatens Army’s FCS plans
May 29, 2008 The Army's biggest modernization program, which relies on transmitting graphics-heavy data on the battlefield, faces a potentially crippling shortage of spectrum and bandwidth, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service. Read the full story from Nextgov.com
Bandwidth shortage threatens Army’s FCS plans
May 29, 2008
FROM NEXTGOV
The Army's biggest modernization program, which relies on transmitting graphics-heavy data on the battlefield, faces a potentially crippling shortage of spectrum and bandwidth, according to a report from the Congressional Research Service. Comment on this article in The Forum.At issue is the $160 billion Future Combat Systems, a smart force ...
From Nextgov.com: Defense boosts bandwidth of global network to meet battlefield needs
May 28, 2008 The Defense Department's demand for bandwidth has soared during the past two years as the military services relied more on dense graphic aerial images for its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Read the full story from Nextgov.com
Defense boosts bandwidth of global network to meet battlefield needs
May 28, 2008
FROM NEXTGOV
The Defense Department's demand for bandwidth has soared during the past two years as the military services relied more on dense graphic aerial images for its operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. Comment on this article in The Forum.Much of the increased demand showed up at the Defense Information Systems Agency, ...
House chairman blasts VA move to set up panel on soldier suicides
May 23, 2008 A key House committee chairman is calling on the Veterans Affairs Department to skip the step of appointing a blue-ribbon commission on soldier suicides and instead take "immediate action" to provide every service member with a mental health evaluation on discharge. "The VA can set up five commissions, yet the ...
Senate gives FDA $265 million in Defense supplemental ’08 funding
May 23, 2008 The Senate on Friday gave the Food and Drug Administration $265 million to beef up inspections of food products and drugs manufactured abroad. The money was included in the 2008 Defense department supplemental appropriations legislation passed by the Senate, but President Bush has threatened to veto the bill because it ...
Senate gives FDA $265 million in Defense supplemental ’08 funding
May 23, 2008
FROM NEXTGOV
The Senate on Friday gave the Food and Drug Administration $265 million to beef up inspections of food products and drugs manufactured abroad. Comment on this article in The Forum.The money was included in the 2008 Defense department supplemental appropriations legislationpassed by the Senate, but President Bush has threatened to ...
From Nextgov.com: Committee pulls purse strings to nudge services toward unified command-and-control systems
May 21, 2008 In its version of the fiscal 2009 defense authorization bill, the House Armed Services Committee used its oversight capability to push the military services to transition from stovepiped command-and-control systems to a new joint system, such as the Net Enabled Command and Control System under development by the Defense Information ...
