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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.
Web Headlines
October 25, 2007
FROM NEXTGOV
Following is a sampling of information technology articles that news outlets recently posted. Pandemic Test Paints Dire Scenario ComputerWorld If a pandemic strikes the United States, it would kill about 1.7 million people, hospitalize 9 million, exhaust antiviral medications and reduce basic food supplies, according to a planning scenario developed ...
Look Who's at Spectrum Confab
October 25, 2007
FROM NEXTGOV
The World Radio Conference -- the quadrennial international meeting of 190 nations to slice and dice increasingly valuable and scarce radio spectrum -- kicked off Oct. 22. And the Defense Department is interested. How interested? Both John Grimes, assistant secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, and Air Force ...
Cyber Wars
October 24, 2007 September seemed to mark a serious escalation in global cyber warfare. Media reports detailed what appeared to be Chinese attacks against Pentagon networks and government computer systems in Germany, France and the United Kingdom -- putting Defense Department officials on the offensive. It began in early September when Financial Times ...
Defense assists military members, civilians displaced by wildfires
October 24, 2007 The Defense Department has opened up bases and facilities to temporarily house military families forced out of their homes by the California wildfires and provide care for evacuees from the civilian population. More than 225,000 Navy and Marine military and civilian personnel live in San Diego County and many of ...
Army tests satellite communications in wildfire response
October 24, 2007 Using new high-tech emergency response vehicles for the first time, Air Force Gen. Victor Renuart, commander of the Pentagon's Northern Command, conducted a secure video conference Wednesday morning with Army officers who are coordinating the Defense Department's response to the California wildfires. Army North, the Army component of Northcom, last ...
Military services offer equipment to fight California fires
October 23, 2007 The Navy and Marine Corps are contributing equipment to fight wildfires that continue to blaze in Southern California, as residents at some bases in the region prepare to evacuate. Navy and Marine units have supplied assets including fire trucks and helicopters to help fight the fires, which had burned nearly ...
What’s Brewin: No More Excuses
October 22, 2007 No Deadline? No Expectation Retired Army Lt. Gen Terry Scott, chairman of the Veteran's Disability Benefits Commission described in testimony before the Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee this week a bit of peculiar bureaucratic logic that, in his opinion, seems to impede development of compatible electronic health record systems for the ...
Defense lauds exceptional technology work
October 22, 2007 A unit that upgraded a program that halved network intrusions and an information systems flight commander who oversaw the development of a communications gateway to support military operations in Afghanistan and Iraq are first-place winners in this year's Defense CIO awards. The Joint Task Force-Global Network Operations won the first-place ...
Boeing Selects SBInet Sensor Vendor
October 19, 2007
FROM NEXTGOV
McQ Inc. said Boeing has selected it to provide a family of unattended sensors for the Homeland Security Department’s electronic border fence project, called the Secure Border Initiative Network (SBInet). McQ has a basic ordering agreement to provide unattended acoustic, magnetic and infrared sensors, according to contract information posted on ...
NSA Data Faster Than a Physics Digit
October 18, 2007
FROM NEXTGOV
Northrop Grumman recently won a National Security Agency information management and data services contract, which will allow the agency to ingest data at a speed faster than any other entity that the company knows on the planet. Kevin Henderson, chief systems engineer for the information management and data services project, ...
