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Katherine McIntire Peters
Executive Editor
Katherine Peters leads editorial strategy and operations for Nextgov. She previously was a senior correspondent for Government Executive magazine, where she covered defense, homeland security and energy. Prior to joining Government Executive in 1995, she covered U.S. military operations and training for Army Times. She also worked as a writer and technical editor at both IDC Washington and EDS. She holds a B.A. in English from Elizabethtown College and an M.A. in Journalism from American University.
Watchdog Applauds GSA's Contractor Database, Despite 'Drab' Look
September 30, 2011
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The nonprofit watchdog Project on Government Oversight on Sept. 29 published a critique of the General Services Administration's six-month-old public version of the government's contractor and grantee responsibility database, the Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System. POGO, as part of an update of its list of top contractors and ...
Smartphone Nation: Mapping iPhone, Android and BlackBerry Users
September 23, 2011
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Over at Atlantic.com Rebecca J. Rosen has posted a fascinating interactive map that allows users to see which phones are dominating in each state, and then compare that information with other demographic data -- population density, political party registration, income levels, even obesity rates. As Rosen writes: The United States ...
LightSquared Network Encounters Interference -- the Political Kind
September 16, 2011
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Things are heating up for LightSquared -- again. The Washington Post reported Friday that House Republican staffers believe officials in the Obama administration improperly influenced an Air Force general's testimony regarding the Virginia company's bid to build a national broadband network. The Daily Beast first reported the incident involving Gen. ...
Brass Creep: A Defense Ailment Ripe for a Budget Cure
September 14, 2011
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Former Defense Secretary Robert Gates earlier this year proposed cutting 102 general and flag officers as part of a broad efficiency initiative to wring $100 billion out of the Pentagon's overhead costs to spend on troops and weapons. Gates lamented the problem of "brass creep" -- the proliferation of positions ...
The Army Wants Killer Apps, Not Perfect Apps
September 13, 2011
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Maj. Gen. Mark Bowman, the Army's deputy chief information officer, says there are two hurdles slowing the Army's quest to arm soldiers with smartphones on the battlefield. One is the intellectual property associated with developing the software applications those phones use, he told an audience attending a Defense IT panel ...
Military services see innovation as a way to cope with IT budget cuts
September 13, 2011
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Senior military technology leaders said they expect advances in thin-client computing, tiered data storage and other innovations in information management will help them achieve substantial savings to cope with inevitable budget cuts on the horizon. "Each service has established [savings] targets internally, and we have set targets at the department ...
Military services see innovation as a way to cope with IT budget cuts
September 13, 2011 Senior military technology leaders said they expect advances in thin-client computing, tiered data storage and other innovations in information management will help them achieve substantial savings to cope with inevitable budget cuts on the horizon. Read the full story on Nextgov.
The Air Force Goes Electric
September 7, 2011
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The Air Force plans to ditch many of the gas-guzzling cars and trucks it owns and leases at its base in Los Angeles and replace them with plug-in electric vehicles, service leaders said in a statement last week. The move, which could be completed as soon as January, would make ...
The Democratization of Repression
September 6, 2011
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Stanford University's Evgeny Morozov published an interesting New York Times Op Ed Thursday about Western companies' sales of Internet surveillance technology to the Libyan and Egyptian governments and to other repressive regimes. Morozov charges that the U.S. and other Western governments are complicit in these sales because many of the ...
Pentagon's China Assessment Contains Few Cyber Surprises
August 24, 2011
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There aren't many revelations in the Pentagon's annual report to Congress on developments in China's military capabilities. The 94-page document released Wednesday notes that the People's Liberation Army doctrine identifies information warfare as key to countering a stronger foe, i.e. the United States. No surprises there. Still, the report details ...
