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Defense, State officials press for Law of the Sea ratification
Top Obama administration officials urged Senate ratification of the Law of the Sea treaty, casting intransigence as harmful to U.S. national security and economic interests.
Panetta: iEHR in 2017
The 4 to 6 years VA CIO Roger Baker has repeatedly projected as the time necessary to build out a nationwide integrated electronic health record with the Defense Department received a more definitive deadline on May 21: 2017.
No accord on what 'cybersecurity' means in international affairs
Amid signs that cybersecurity increasingly is a matter for diplomacy as well as technology, the European Union information technology agency notes that there is no common international understanding of the term.
Defense officials call for ratification of Law of the Sea convention
Top Coast Guard and Defense officials urged U.S. ascension to U.N. Convention on the Law of the Sea, characterizing it May 9 as a necessary measure thanks in part to a warming Arctic.
The Air Force will audit with the systems it has rather than the ERPs it wants
The Air Force will have to meet an accelerated goal for audit readiness by the end of calendar year 2014 with the legacy systems it has in place rather than the massive enterprise resource planning systems it's been developing, acknowledged Jamie Morin, Air Force comptroller.
Panetta: DoD cyber spending won't be cut
Defense spending on cyber capabilities won't be subject to cuts as the Pentagon attempts to reduce its budget by $487 billion over the next decade, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters
Audio: Obama unveils strategy for austere military spending
President Obama unveiled Jan. 5 a new strategy (.pdf) for defense spending in a Pentagon press conference where he was joined by Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of
Super Committee fails to reach deficit reduction plan
The Joint Select Committee on Deficit Reduction, often referred to as the " Super Committee ," announced Nov. 21 it was unable to reach a bipartisan agreement for cutting federal spending by $1.5
Panetta: defeat of al Qaeda 'within reach'
The United States is within reach of strategically defeating al Qaeda, said Defense Secretary Leon Panetta during a July 8 media availability conducted while the new DoD secretary was en route to
Congress may reclaim savings realized by agencies' IT efficiency programs
Federal officials claim they're realizing greater efficiencies through cloud computing and data center consolidation, and plan to use those savings to fund other projects. But one analyst says their
