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Air Mobility Command plans to replace paper manuals and navigation charts with electronic flight bags.

Tweets are taking the place of phone trees, knocking on doors and even email blasts.

Large-scale Army battlefield network tests last summer did not include mobile operation scenarios and did not feature robust attacks against the networks, the Defense Department's test organization said in its annual report to ...

Members of hacker collective Anonymous breached a conference call FBI investigators held with their counterparts at Scotland Yard to discuss the investigation into the group's activities. Anonymous broadcast email and login data from ...

The controversial advocacy group Demand Progress can't get enough of Lamar Smith. ...

The key to developing a successful shared services strategy is figuring out where pooling resources can bring the greatest benefit and making a solid business case for it, government information technology leaders said Thursday. ...

The Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command said it plans the first installation of its new shipboard network on a destroyer before the end of September, pending completion of an operational assessment of the system developed by ...

Three days before the 2012 Super Bowl, federal officials said they have seized more than 300 websites accused of selling fake merchandise or illegally streaming sports games. ...

Industry pushback and politics have stymied efforts to expand authority over critical networks, cyber expert says.

Facebook warned that burdensome regulation and other challenges could mean "there is no guarantee" that the social network won't go the way of competitors like MySpace or Friendster, according to documents the company filed on ...

A House panel on Wednesday approved a bipartisan bill that would make the Homeland Security Department responsible for gauging the security of private networks. ...

On Tuesday, the Pentagon detailed $18 million worth of new projects focused primarily on managing battlefield heating and air conditioning systems to reduce energy consumption. ...

The initial award is to install communications infrastructure on 54 ships.

More than 80 percent of federal information technology leaders say their agencies have implemented some manner of server virtualization and, overall, the government is saving nearly 20 percent of its IT budget through virtualization, ...

Flight demonstrations may be pricey, but when industry partners are willing to pay for them they can help speed new NASA technology from the lab into real-life use, experts said in a report issued on Wednesday. ...

Competition could cut the cost of a new broadband battlefield radio in half or more with at least seven vendors interested in the project, Army Brig. Gen. Michael Williamson, program executive officer for the Joint Tactical Radio ...

The Chief Information Officer Council is working on a Web portal where information technology workers can share best practices in federal IT. But whether that portal is up and running yet isn't entirely clear. ...

More than 227,000 Americans interview the president and vote on questions for Google+ event.

President Obama said on Monday that the United States will continue to make heavy use of military drones in Pakistan and Iraq and defended spending on foreign aid, during an unusual "virtual town hall" on Google's social media site, ...

For now, the agency has given up on scanner technology aimed at detecting threatening footwear.