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Modernizing Defense Health Data

The coming of a new information chief to the DHA is an opportunity for the agency to take a different direction.

A U.S. Air Force captain logs patient information into an electronic health record system in Southwest Asia. A new chief information officer taking the reins at the Defense Health Agency will have an opportunity—as well as a challenge—to change business methodologies by modernizing the organization’s information systems.

AFCEA Educational Foundation Honors Service Members

The AFCEA Educational Foundation recently presented a number of awards to deserving service members.

Maj. Craig Schnappinger, USM (c) receives the Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare School’s Colonel Donald G. Cook Award from Jay Storms, president, AFCEA Quantico-Potomac Chapter, and Col. Jason Bohm, USMC, director of the Marine Corps Expeditionary Warfare School. The award was named after Donald Gilbert Cook, the first marine officer captured in Vietnam and the only marine in history to earn the Medal of Honor while a prisoner of war.

Incoming: Are Politics Impeding Our National Security?

I am convinced that we will continue to struggle against extremist and other mass-murder threats until we come up with unified national positions on terrorism and gun control that most Americans can understand, accept and support. We need a strategy that targets these threats using every element of national power: diplomatic, informational, military and economic.

Pursuing Big Ideas No One Else Dares

For entrepreneurs, the rewards of biomedical technology research are worth the risks.

Remedium Technologies is developing a product called Hemogrip, a handheld, lightweight canister that delivers an expanding hemostatic biopolymer foam for the rapid treatment of heavy bleeding within a body cavity.

Wonder Material Aims Beyond Silicon

Painting graphene with hydrogen gives it magnetic properties and opens the door to revolutionary applications.

Picturing graphene as a canvas, researchers are painting the honeycomb structure with hydrogen to confer magnetic and semiconducting capabilities onto the single-atom-thick material—as illustrated in this concept featuring “Mona Lisa.”

The Cyber Implications of Acquisition Speed: Part IV

Open architectures can accelerate acquisition.

Readily Accessible Encryption Tools Proliferate

Military-level security now can protect anyone’s information.

Gotcha! Program Looks To ID Cyber Criminals

DARPA seeks a better way to pinpoint and track malicious actors.

Exploring the Frontiers of Quantum Knowledge

NIST’s research laboratory stretches scientific boundaries.

Scientists at the Joint Quantum Institute have created a crystal structure that boosts the interaction between tiny bursts of light and individual electrons, an advance that could be a significant step toward establishing quantum networks in the future.

DHS Bends Tradition for Innovation

Department officials pursue creativity on multiple fronts.