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SAIC loses personal data on 500,000 military

SAIC loses personal data on 500,000 militaryJust When You Think Your Safe.Just When You Think Your Safe. Some Idiot Creates The Possibilty Of A National Securty Breach. How STUPID Can One Be. Do The Feds & Military Not Require Major Personal Data Encryption On Privite Records. Talk About A Possible...

Tags: SECURITY, SAIC, Now-What

Discussion threads 2007-07-31

SAIC loses personal data on 500,000 military

One would think one of the biggest Pentagon contractors would know a little something about data encryption. Alas, SAIC Inc. likely compromised the personal information of more than 500,000 military personnel and family members because it kept the information online and unencrypted, the Virginian Pilot reports.As usual in these...

Tags: Security, Defense

Blog posts 2007-07-30

SAIC deserves big share of blame for Trilogy

The Washington Post takes a deep look today at the troubled FBI's troubled Trilogy system and the true disaster at its heart, the Virtual Case File system or VCF. While Congress and press have held the FBI's feet to the fire for the fiasco, Writers Dan Eggen and Griff Witte...

Tags: SAIC, FBI

Blog posts 2006-08-18

SAIC SOA Case Study: The Navy/Marine Corps Intranet

Science Applications International Corporation SAIC is a well-known, established, and respected systems integrator and professional services firm that service many of the largest corporations and government agencies. With over $6 Billion in revenue, the company is now looking to Service-Oriented Architecture SOA to help further their integration practice around legacy...

Tags: ZapThink LLC, SAIC, SOA, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Web Services, Middleware, Enterprise Software, Software

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Integrating Asset and Content Management

Most organizations struggle to ensure that corporate asset documentation is readily available - especially when asset and content management platforms are not linked. One can overcome this challenge with SAIC Max2Docs, an intelligent, real-time, cross-application interface to share content and information between IBM Maximo Asset Management and EMC Documentum. The...

Tags: Asset, EMC Corp., Asset Management, Web Technology, Content Management, Operational Planning, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software

Webcasts 2009-08-19

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

Does Kundra have an impossible job as Obama's federal CIO?

On Thursday, U.S. President Barack Obama named Vivek Kundra as the CIO of the federal government. Kunda below is a 34 year-old IT leader with a strong reputation in the tech community. He has track record for driving efficiency and transparency, and has shown a penchant for bold actions such...

Tags: Job, CIO, CTO, Information Technology, Vivek Kundra, Government Operation, Federal Government, Government, Strategy, Management, Jason Hiner

Blog posts 2009-03-06

GM takes its bailout case to...Yahoo Finance

GM takes its bailout case to...Yahoo FinanceWhy won't bankruptcy help?It worked for the airlines. They got all kinds of leverage to break / renegotiate labor contracts and pay only pennies on the dollar for old debt, and they're still in business.So WTH?RE: GM takes its bailout case to...Yahoo FinanceI...

Tags: Financial accounting, bailout case, General Motors Corp., Yahoo Finance, finance, Yahoo! Inc.

Discussion threads 2008-11-19

Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'

Microsoft renames its 'D' language 'M'Brilliant move ... Duh!Brilliant move! There's already a language named M, formerly known as MUMPS. The Veterans Administration (now Dept. of Veterans Affairs) wrote its DHCP Decentralized Hospital Computer Program in M and SAIC used that as the basis for the CHCS program...

Tags: Programming languages, Microsoft Corp., MUMPS

Discussion threads 2008-10-10

Congress: Open-source for U.S. military

Congress: Open-source for U.S. militaryPosting to an open source forumThis is the President of the United States. The telephone operators at the White House's best known number have been instructed to confirm for anyone who calls that this post is not a hoax.Currently our missile defenses rely on open...

Tags: open source, NSA, Red Hat Inc., Novell Inc., agency, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2008-09-26

8 tips to avoid being an IT scapegoat

8 tips to avoid being an IT scapegoatProject Manager Usually Ends up "Holding the Bag"The project manager is often not the one who sets the mission. That is usually done several layers up the management chain. The project manager is often not in a position to question the mission either.With...

Tags: Strategy, information technology

Discussion threads 2008-04-25

Billion-dollar IT failure at Census Bureau

Billion-dollar IT failure at Census BureauAmateurs2 billion wasted? Ha! Take a look at the Navy's NMCI debacle, a sprawling EDS boondoggle sucking down billions of your tax dollars. What's funny, in many cases the same people are doing the grunt work, only at vastly inflated prices. It's...

Tags: Billion-dollar IT failure, information technology, government

Discussion threads 2008-03-21

Microsoft delivers 12 patches to plug Office; 7 for Excel flaws

Microsoft on Tuesday delivered several patches to fix critical vulnerabilities in Office including a well-publicized Excel flaw. In the first bulletin (MS08-014), Microsoft addressed "several privately reported and publicly reported vulnerabilities in Microsoft Office Excel that could allow remote code execution if a user opens a specially...

Tags: Microsoft Outlook, Vulnerability, Patch Management, Microsoft Corp., Flaw, Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Office, Office Suites, Software, Larry Dignan

Blog posts 2008-03-11

Survey: A third of IT projects exceed budget

Survey: A third of IT projects exceed budgetBogus NumbersLet me tell you how it works. IT workers have project work and operations or other work. So the number they report on project work can and is a matter of negotiation. The amount of fudging is a function of how much...

Tags: Mainframes, survey, Apple Inc., Microsoft Office, Microsoft Office 2007, Microsoft Corp., IT Project, information technology, Siemens AG

Discussion threads 2007-09-13

Microsoft, DOD to build medical data warehouse

Microsoft, DOD to build medical data warehousegetting the job doneSmart move by the government.When you have the best software company in the world attempting a task, you know its going to get done.Unlike the FBI VCF project i.e. virtual case file, which was handled by a government...

Tags: Databases, Storage, Servers, U.S. Department of Defense, Teradata, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft SQL Server

Discussion threads 2007-03-09

A TIGER to track pathogens

TIGER, short for "Triangulation Identification for Genetic Evaluation of Risks," is a tool used by several U.S. labs which need to quickly identify pathogens, such as bacteria, fungi, and other microorganisms that cause disease. In TIGER Technique Targets Plant Pathogens, the USDA/Agricultural Research Service ARS says that this detection tool...

Tags: Defense &, Security, Health &, Medicine, Science &, Nature, Tiger

Blog posts 2007-01-09

WMD scenarios to come to the Web

How will federal agencies, private businesses, hospitals, police and fire departments react if another terrorist attack hits the US, if a foreign country drops a nuclear bomb, or if toxic chemicals are released in the New York subway system? Such doomsday planning is the bailiwick of the Defense Threat...

Tags: Contracting, Defense, Government technology, tool

Blog posts 2007-01-01

FBI paid $10m in questionable bills on Trilogy

The FBI's poor management oversight contributed to the payment of more than $10 million in questionable costs related to the troubled Trilogy program, which was to have modernized the bureau's IT operations, accordingto a new report from the Government Accountability Office. A few particulars, according to Washington Technology's report:...

Tags: FBI

Blog posts 2006-05-08

IBM follows Sun's lead with open letter to Massachusetts gov't

IBM follows Sun's lead with open letter to Massachusetts gov'tSwing votersYou're missing the votes that [b]really[/b] count in Massachusetts: SAIC, CA, etc. -- the companies that will be developing the enterprise infrastructure implementing the ETRM.Most of them aren't even known by name to most New England techies. If you...

Tags: OpenDocument Format (ODF), Desktops, desktop software, Sun Microsystems Inc., Microsoft Corp., OpenDocument Format, Google Inc., IBM Corp.

Discussion threads 2005-11-29

FBI to Duh! itself, again

FBI to Duh! itself, againIf you lived in a holeand worked on your Win98, Pentium II machine everyday, and THEN were asked what would you like to buy for replacements - what would you say? ANYTHING is better - right?Thin client solutions are a good bet in this environment. So...

Tags: Federal government, Web services, Apple Inc., Thin Client Solutions, FBI, Sun Microsystems Inc., environment, software

Discussion threads 2005-05-31