Dod News & Articles

If social media monitoring is good enough for prospective employers, it’s good enough for the United States Government.  Where as employers may track the behaviors of future employees online, tracking social media for indications that their applicant may be a risk, the Department of Defense has begun a new initiative, which sets to track intelligence across social media.

Cyber warfare might just be the next frontier in the quest for global dominance. With Asia-Pacific nations like China, India, South Korea and Japan gaining footholds in terms of technological advancement, it is only natural that the reigning super powers would want to keep a few steps ahead and maintain the status quo. However, this doesn’t come without costs. What if national security came at the cost of international trade and economic cooperation?

Welcome to the November 2009 installment of our what's coming from the open source CMS projects in the next 30 days.

If you're looking through here and feel that your project was left out, we invite you to send us an email at pr@cmswire.com with a pointer to who we should contact for your project updates.

With the current U.S. administration being tech-savvy and promising transparency, many in the open source community have been hoping to get more visibility and traction in the government's procurement cycles.

It looks like the U.S. Department of Defense might have noticed -- or at least has decided to catch up with other government organizations around the globe -- as they make it easier for their staff to make use of open source. A recently released memo has been cause for some FOSS community jubilation.

If you want your products to be used by big government, then Department of Defense certification is a must. IBM (news, site) understands this well. They have just announced that their solution:  Record Manager has just received its DoD Certification.

Content managers, I’m sure you think your job is hard enough as it is. Sourcing good content, presenting it well, integrating it seamlessly, cataloging it, securing it, backing it up… yikes, the plate is full already.

But content management as we know it is only in its embryonic stage, and as we hurtle towards the Next Big Thing online, the only thing we can say with any certainty is that we don’t know where we are headed.

Following through on a commitment made last November, Microsoft has announced that their darling SharePoint Server 2007 (MOSS) product has just received the U.S. Department of Defense (DoD) 5015.2 records management certification.

Also known by the more formal and much longer: Design Criteria Standard for Electronic Records Management Software Applications, the 5015.2 certification has emerged as an industry standard for records management applications used within the United States government.