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For federal chief information officers (CIOs), it is the best of times and the worst of times. The broader, less literary question is: Do CIOs matter?

Network systems are similar to icebergs. Less than 10 percent of their volume is visible to the user of an application. Almost all of the hidden code, measured in hundreds of thousands of lines of logic, is invisible in the operating system, in the database management software, in security safeguards and in communication routines. The problem with such software is that for each application—and the U.S. Defense Department has more than 7,000 major software projects—contractors will develop the hidden coding to suit separate requirements.

At the heart of "DoD Information System Certification and Accreditation Reciprocity" is the policy that if a system owner from any service hands a certified and accredited system to the network owner from any other service, the network owner should have the confidence that putting that system on his or her network will not result in creating information assurance or related vulnerabilities. Can we handle this?

CACI International Incorporated has been awarded a $125 million prime contract to support the U.S.

The U.S.

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC) has been awarded a task order by the U.S.

The U.S.

The Boeing Company has received a $750 million contract from the U.S.

Alion Science and Technology has been awarded a contract valued at $5 million to support the Air Force

Northrop Grumman Cobham Intercoms LLC, a company formed by Northrop Grumman Corporation and Cobham, has been selected