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278 p. : 25 cm

278 p. : 25 cm

The current state of research on blockchain technology applications in food supply chain (FSC) management and information systems (IS) is crucial for the research. Therefore, this Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was conducted to find-out the key benefits and limitations of blockchain applications in food supply chains and the effectiveness of blockchain technology in addressing food supply chain challenges like traceability, transparency, food safety, and efficiency.

The current state of research on blockchain technology applications in food supply chain (FSC) management and information systems (IS) is crucial for the research. Therefore, this Systematic Literature Review (SLR) was conducted to find-out the key benefits and limitations of blockchain applications in food supply chains and the effectiveness of blockchain technology in addressing food supply chain challenges like traceability, transparency, food safety, and efficiency.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

Government Publishing Office U.S. Congress House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services [H.A.S.C. No. 112-39] IMPROVING MANAGEMENT AND ACQUISITION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS IN THE DEPARTMENT OF DEFENSE Date(s) Held: 2011-04-06 112th Congress, 1st Session GPO Document Source: CHRG-112hhrg65810 Superintendents of Documents ID: Y 4.AR 5/2 Witnesses: McGrath, Hon. Elizabeth A., Deputy Chief Management Officer, U.S. Department of Defense Takai, Hon. Teresa M., Acting Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration, and Chief Information Officer, U.S. Department of Defense Related Items:

Government Publishing Office U.S. Congress House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services [H.A.S.C. No. 111-77] CHALLENGES TO EFFECTIVE ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS Date(s) Held: 2009-07-09, 2009-07-09 111th Congress, 1st Session GPO Document Source: CHRG-111hhrg51959 Superintendents of Documents ID: Y 4.AR 5/2 Witnesses: Harp, Timothy J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Information Technology Acquisition, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration/DOD Chief Information Officer Kerber, Dr. Ronald L., Co-Chair, Defense Science Board Task Force on Department of Defense Policies and Procedures for the Acquisition of Information Technology Nielsen, Dr. Paul D., Director and Chief Executive Officer, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon Related Items: United States House Bill 2647 (111th Congress) U.S. Code: 10 U.S.C. 1705

Government Publishing Office U.S. Congress House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services [H.A.S.C. No. 111-77] CHALLENGES TO EFFECTIVE ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS Date(s) Held: 2009-07-09, 2009-07-09 111th Congress, 1st Session GPO Document Source: CHRG-111hhrg51959 Superintendents of Documents ID: Y 4.AR 5/2 Witnesses: Harp, Timothy J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Information Technology Acquisition, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration/DOD Chief Information Officer Kerber, Dr. Ronald L., Co-Chair, Defense Science Board Task Force on Department of Defense Policies and Procedures for the Acquisition of Information Technology Nielsen, Dr. Paul D., Director and Chief Executive Officer, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon Related Items: United States House Bill 2647 (111th Congress) U.S. Code: 10 U.S.C. 1705

Government Publishing Office U.S. Congress House of Representatives Committee on Armed Services [H.A.S.C. No. 111-77] CHALLENGES TO EFFECTIVE ACQUISITION AND MANAGEMENT OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY SYSTEMS Date(s) Held: 2009-07-09, 2009-07-09 111th Congress, 1st Session GPO Document Source: CHRG-111hhrg51959 Superintendents of Documents ID: Y 4.AR 5/2 Witnesses: Harp, Timothy J., Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense, Command, Control, Communications, Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance and Information Technology Acquisition, Office of the Assistant Secretary of Defense for Networks and Information Integration/DOD Chief Information Officer Kerber, Dr. Ronald L., Co-Chair, Defense Science Board Task Force on Department of Defense Policies and Procedures for the Acquisition of Information Technology Nielsen, Dr. Paul D., Director and Chief Executive Officer, Software Engineering Institute, Carnegie Mellon Related Items: United States House Bill 2647 (111th Congress) U.S. Code: 10 U.S.C. 1705

Includes bibliographical references and indexes

In order to promote public education and public safety, equal justice for all, a better informed citizenry, the rule of law, world trade and world peace, this legal document is hereby made available on a noncommercial basis, as it is the right of all humans to know and speak the laws that govern them. (For more information: 12 Tables of Code ) Name of Standards Organization: Bureau of Indian Standards (BIS) Division Name: Electronics and Information Technology Section Name: Information Systems Security and Biometrics (LITD 17) Designator of Legally Binding Document: IS/ISO/IEC 27006 Title of Legally Binding Document: Information Technology - Security Techniques - Requirements for Bodies Providing Audit and Certification of Information Security Management Systems Number of Amendments: Equivalence: Superceding: Superceded by: LEGALLY BINDING DOCUMENT Step Out From the Old to the New --Jawaharlal Nehru Invent a new India using knowledge. --Satyanarayan Gangaram Pitroda

DISA is a DOD component agency reporting to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications, and intelligence. DISA centrally manages major portions of DOD's common global IT resources, providing services and operating and maintaining systems that support the computing, networking, and information needs of the national command authority, military services, joint military commands, and Defense agencies. DISA's services include * providing computing capabilities critical to DOD's global combat support operations; * providing voice, data, and video telecommunications services to DOD and other customers; * purchasing telecommunications services on behalf of its customers from commercial vendors and other sources, such as voice services from the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service contract; and * purchasing customized IT products and services. In addition to these services, DISA also operates and maintains a number of systems that perform mission-critical functions. These systems include the following: * The Defense Information Systems Network, which is used to provide telecommunication services. * The Global Combat Support System, which integrates joint combat support information from various databases and presents battlefield status information during an engagement. * The Defense Message System, which interfaces with other U.S. government agencies, allies, and contractors to provide multimedia messaging and directory services for DOD users worldwide. * The Global Command and Control System, which provides a range of information needed to conduct joint U.S. and allied military operations, including battlefield information, imagery, planning support, and other intelligence information. The system operates at over 625 networked sites worldwide.

DISA is a DOD component agency reporting to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications, and intelligence. DISA centrally manages major portions of DOD's common global IT resources, providing services and operating and maintaining systems that support the computing, networking, and information needs of the national command authority, military services, joint military commands, and Defense agencies. DISA's services include * providing computing capabilities critical to DOD's global combat support operations; * providing voice, data, and video telecommunications services to DOD and other customers; * purchasing telecommunications services on behalf of its customers from commercial vendors and other sources, such as voice services from the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service contract; and * purchasing customized IT products and services. In addition to these services, DISA also operates and maintains a number of systems that perform mission-critical functions. These systems include the following: * The Defense Information Systems Network, which is used to provide telecommunication services. * The Global Combat Support System, which integrates joint combat support information from various databases and presents battlefield status information during an engagement. * The Defense Message System, which interfaces with other U.S. government agencies, allies, and contractors to provide multimedia messaging and directory services for DOD users worldwide. * The Global Command and Control System, which provides a range of information needed to conduct joint U.S. and allied military operations, including battlefield information, imagery, planning support, and other intelligence information. The system operates at over 625 networked sites worldwide.

DISA is a DOD component agency reporting to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications, and intelligence. DISA centrally manages major portions of DOD's common global IT resources, providing services and operating and maintaining systems that support the computing, networking, and information needs of the national command authority, military services, joint military commands, and Defense agencies. DISA's services include * providing computing capabilities critical to DOD's global combat support operations; * providing voice, data, and video telecommunications services to DOD and other customers; * purchasing telecommunications services on behalf of its customers from commercial vendors and other sources, such as voice services from the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service contract; and * purchasing customized IT products and services. In addition to these services, DISA also operates and maintains a number of systems that perform mission-critical functions. These systems include the following: * The Defense Information Systems Network, which is used to provide telecommunication services. * The Global Combat Support System, which integrates joint combat support information from various databases and presents battlefield status information during an engagement. * The Defense Message System, which interfaces with other U.S. government agencies, allies, and contractors to provide multimedia messaging and directory services for DOD users worldwide. * The Global Command and Control System, which provides a range of information needed to conduct joint U.S. and allied military operations, including battlefield information, imagery, planning support, and other intelligence information. The system operates at over 625 networked sites worldwide.

DISA is a DOD component agency reporting to the assistant secretary of defense for command, control, communications, and intelligence. DISA centrally manages major portions of DOD's common global IT resources, providing services and operating and maintaining systems that support the computing, networking, and information needs of the national command authority, military services, joint military commands, and Defense agencies. DISA's services include * providing computing capabilities critical to DOD's global combat support operations; * providing voice, data, and video telecommunications services to DOD and other customers; * purchasing telecommunications services on behalf of its customers from commercial vendors and other sources, such as voice services from the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service contract; and * purchasing customized IT products and services. In addition to these services, DISA also operates and maintains a number of systems that perform mission-critical functions. These systems include the following: * The Defense Information Systems Network, which is used to provide telecommunication services. * The Global Combat Support System, which integrates joint combat support information from various databases and presents battlefield status information during an engagement. * The Defense Message System, which interfaces with other U.S. government agencies, allies, and contractors to provide multimedia messaging and directory services for DOD users worldwide. * The Global Command and Control System, which provides a range of information needed to conduct joint U.S. and allied military operations, including battlefield information, imagery, planning support, and other intelligence information. The system operates at over 625 networked sites worldwide.

The use of IT is crucial to helping VA effectively serve the nations veterans, and each year, the department spends over $4 billion on IT. However, over many years, VA has had difficulty managing its information systems, raising questions about the effectiveness of its operations and its ability to deliver intended outcomes needed to help advance the departments mission. GAO has previously reported on a number of the departments IT initiatives. This statement summarizes results from key GAO reports related to increasing electronic health record interoperability between VA and DOD; system challenges that have contributed to GAOs designation of VA health care as a high-risk area; and VAs development of its system for processing disability benefits, data center consolidation, and legacy systems. GAO has made numerous recommendations to VA to improve the modernization of its IT systems. For example, GAO has recommended that VA develop goals and metrics for determining the extent to which its modernized electronic health record system is achieving interoperability with DODs; address challenges associated with modernizing its scheduling system; address shortcomings with VBMS planning and implementation; take actions to improve progress in data center optimization; and modernize or replace obsolete legacy IT systems. VA agreed with these recommendations and said it has begun taking actions to implement them.

This report focuses on DISA's Center for Computing Services (CS), an organization that provides computer processing for the entire range of combat support functions including: transportation, logistics, maintenance, munitions, engineering, acquisition, finance, medicine, and military personnel readiness. CS offers computing services on both CS-owned and customer-owned platforms to include computer operations, data storage, systems administration, security management, capacity management, system engineering, web and portal hosting, architectural development, and performance monitoring.

Many school district strategic plans and education conferences are aggressively embracing technology to improve teaching and learning. Classroom technology typically includes blended learning, personalized learning, online courses for students, and professional development for teachers, among many other things. As districts wrestle with tighter budgets and higher academic standards, a different kind of technology might create game-changing transformation in the education sector: management technology. As the name suggests, classroom technology aims to improve what goes on in the classroom. Management technology, on the other hand, is more indirect: Management technology helps school and district leaders make better decisions, run leaner organizations, and target funds to programs that help kids the most. In short, it helps those in charge of districts and schools manage better. This report, which looks closely at the use of management technology in education, finds that most school districts fail to use these tools to improve their outcomes. In most cases, they lack both the technology and capacity to analyze their data and figure out effective and cost-effective solutions to raising achievement and reducing costs. Moreover, as this report argues, a large part of the problem is that the fundamental design and culture of schools today are not in sync with these new approaches. Finally, this report includes the following policy recommendations for how K-12 education can gain the same benefits from big data that many other sectors have: (1) States and the federal government need to facilitate the development of actionable management information; (2) Districts should make small investments to fund technology-infused analytics; (3) Bring talent, technology, and data to the decision-making table; and (4) Link results to key decisions such as continued funding or staff promotion.

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This report is intended for the use of Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) management, its user organizations, and the independent auditors of its user organizations. The DoD Office of Inspector General is implementing a long-range strategy to conduct audits of DoD financial statements. The Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, as amended, mandates that agencies prepare and conduct audits of financial statements. The reliability of information processed at the DISA sites directly impacts the ability of DoD to produce reliable, and ultimately auditable, financial statements, which is key to achieving the goals of the Chief Financial Officers Act. This report focuses on the DISA Center for Computing Services (CS). CS provides computer processing for the entire range of combat support functions; including transportation, logistics, maintenance, munitions, engineering, acquisition, finance, medicine, and military personnel readiness. CS offers computing services on both CS- and customer-owned platforms including computer operations, data storage, systems administration, security management, capacity management, system engineering, web and portal hosting, architectural development, and performance monitoring. This examination assessed controls defined by DISA over the CS environment. The report provides an opinion on the fairness of presentation by DISA of its description of controls, the suitability of the design of controls, and the operating effectiveness of key controls that are relevant to audits of a user organization's financial statements. As a result, this examination may preclude the need for additional audits of general controls such as those that were previously performed by user organizations to plan or conduct financial statement and performance audits. This examination will also provide a separate audit report with recommendations to management for correction of identified internal control deficiencies.

This report is intended for the use of Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) management, its user organizations, and the independent auditors of its user organizations. The DoD Office of Inspector General is implementing a long-range strategy to conduct audits of DoD financial statements. The Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, as amended, mandates that agencies prepare and conduct audits of financial statements. The reliability of information processed at the DISA sites directly impacts the ability of DoD to produce reliable, and ultimately auditable, financial statements, which is key to achieving the goals of the Chief Financial Officers Act. This report focuses on the DISA Center for Computing Services (CS). CS provides computer processing for the entire range of combat support functions; including transportation, logistics, maintenance, munitions, engineering, acquisition, finance, medicine, and military personnel readiness. CS offers computing services on both CS- and customer-owned platforms including computer operations, data storage, systems administration, security management, capacity management, system engineering, web and portal hosting, architectural development, and performance monitoring. This examination assessed controls defined by DISA over the CS environment. The report provides an opinion on the fairness of presentation by DISA of its description of controls, the suitability of the design of controls, and the operating effectiveness of key controls that are relevant to audits of a user organization's financial statements. As a result, this examination may preclude the need for additional audits of general controls such as those that were previously performed by user organizations to plan or conduct financial statement and performance audits. This examination will also provide a separate audit report with recommendations to management for correction of identified internal control deficiencies.

This report is intended for the use of Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) management, its user organizations, and the independent auditors of its user organizations. The DoD Office of Inspector General is implementing a long-range strategy to conduct audits of DoD financial statements. The Chief Financial Officers Act of 1990, as amended, mandates that agencies prepare and conduct audits of financial statements. The reliability of information processed at the DISA sites directly impacts the ability of DoD to produce reliable, and ultimately auditable, financial statements, which is key to achieving the goals of the Chief Financial Officers Act. This report focuses on the DISA Center for Computing Services (CS). CS provides computer processing for the entire range of combat support functions; including transportation, logistics, maintenance, munitions, engineering, acquisition, finance, medicine, and military personnel readiness. CS offers computing services on both CS- and customer-owned platforms including computer operations, data storage, systems administration, security management, capacity management, system engineering, web and portal hosting, architectural development, and performance monitoring. This examination assessed controls defined by DISA over the CS environment. The report provides an opinion on the fairness of presentation by DISA of its description of controls, the suitability of the design of controls, and the operating effectiveness of key controls that are relevant to audits of a user organization's financial statements. As a result, this examination may preclude the need for additional audits of general controls such as those that were previously performed by user organizations to plan or conduct financial statement and performance audits. This examination will also provide a separate audit report with recommendations to management for correction of identified internal control deficiencies.

In recent years, information technology has advanced at a pace that few would have anticipated. It has been estimated that the computing power of the modem desktop computer has been increasing at the rate of 1000% per decade. In combination with the development of personal computers, the advent of networks and the world wide web provide unprecedented access to information and computing power. However, the problem of developing useful user interfaces remains a problem. In many military and commercial settings, the increased computing power offered by current information technology remains unexploited because of user interfaces that are difficult to use. This thesis reports on the examination of constructs related to user acceptance of information systems from two disciplines, human-computer interaction (HCI) and management information systems (MIS). More specifically, research was conducted to evaluate the possibility of overlap between the two divergent fields. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) from MIS research was examined in light of the HCI constructs of efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction. Of interest was the impact of efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction on the formulation of user perceptions of ease of use. The empirical data suggests that satisfaction plays a major role in the formulation of user perceptions (p<0.01), while the role of efficiency and effectiveness are minimal.

In recent years, information technology has advanced at a pace that few would have anticipated. It has been estimated that the computing power of the modem desktop computer has been increasing at the rate of 1000% per decade. In combination with the development of personal computers, the advent of networks and the world wide web provide unprecedented access to information and computing power. However, the problem of developing useful user interfaces remains a problem. In many military and commercial settings, the increased computing power offered by current information technology remains unexploited because of user interfaces that are difficult to use. This thesis reports on the examination of constructs related to user acceptance of information systems from two disciplines, human-computer interaction (HCI) and management information systems (MIS). More specifically, research was conducted to evaluate the possibility of overlap between the two divergent fields. The Technology Acceptance Model (TAM) from MIS research was examined in light of the HCI constructs of efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction. Of interest was the impact of efficiency, effectiveness, and satisfaction on the formulation of user perceptions of ease of use. The empirical data suggests that satisfaction plays a major role in the formulation of user perceptions (p<0.01), while the role of efficiency and effectiveness are minimal.