Best Practices: ProveIT Case Study for U.S. Air Force Software Assurance Center of ExcellenceProveIT case studies provide government end users with assessments of IT solutions. Our methodology enables impact assessments to be comparable, consistent, and independent. Working with government and vendor personnel directly involved in the project, Government Insights analysts gathered relevant information on the project and provided our analysis of the approach, the solution’s success in meeting the organization’s stated goals, and the project’s impact on return on investment, risk, innovation, and transformation.
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Next-Generation Technologies Won’t Pay Off Without Next-Gen GovernanceThe Defense Department is adopting a range of new technologies that include service-oriented architecture (SOA), social networking, and agile development and testing. All are aimed at accelerating the delivery of next-generation solutions to the battlefield and improving the efficiency and effectiveness of support operations. But these technologies won’t get the results the government needs without addressing a lingering barrier: the governance of information technology.
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Labor Captures Its Current Web SiteIf a picture is worth a thousand words, how do you calculate what a snapshot of a 1.6 million-page Web site is worth? The Labor Department doesn’t claim to know the answer, but it has resolved that its Web site is valuable enough to create a comprehensive snapshot for posterity. The Labor Department doesn’t claim to know the answer, but it has resolved that its Web site is valuable enough to create a comprehensive snapshot for posterity.
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DARPA Sets First Phase Contracts for National Cyber RangeThe Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency announced Jan. 8 a total of some $30 million of first contract awards for its National Cyber Range (NCR) program, a research and development testbed aimed at speeding deployment of new cybersecurity systems and which is a key part of the interagency Comprehensive National Cybersecurity Initiative (CNCI). Launched early in 2008, the CNCI will be managed by the Homeland Security Department and will be the central coordinating office for all of the government’s cybersecurity organizations and development efforts.
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The Department of Defense DNA Registry and the U.S. Government Accounting MissionIn December 1991, AFDIL sent a team to the U.S Army Central Identification Laboratory-Hawaii (CILHI) to develop a strategy for AFDIL support of CILHI casework. And in 1992, with the establishment of Joint Task Force – Full Accounting (JTF-FA), the CILHI requested through the U.S. Army Deputy Chief of Staff for Personnel that AFDIL scale-up operations to increase case output. With approval from ASD (HA), initial funding was made available from the U.S. Army Casualty and Memorial Affairs Operations Center (CMAOC). Expand and accelerate accounting efforts worldwide, achieve unity of U.S. |