Digital Government
Auditors: DOD, VA need measures to track electronic health record progress
Federal Computer Week
Modernization
Tougher security standards coming for removable storage devices
Modifications to contracts would require protections from worms and viruses, and stronger encryption requirements.
Digital Government
MP3 privacy breach exposes government's privacy liability
Security specialists say incident underscores need for government to better protect federal employees' and citizens' personal information.
Cybersecurity
Breach of federal jobs site highlights need for contractor liability
Hacked information could be used for targeted phishing attacks and other scams.
Cybersecurity
Defense cybersecurity budget request likely a third more than reported
More than $1 billion in fiscal 2009 IT security budget request embedded in general program spending, not linked to networks, research group estimates.
Modernization
What's Brewin: Baby Steps
The Army appears to have started a process that could lead to widespread use of wireless technologies for its classified networks.
Cybersecurity
FAA off high-risk list, but most others remain
After 14 years, GAO removes the air traffic control modernization program from its list, but the IRS, Census and Defense IT systems stay on.
Modernization
Air Force scales back ambitious satellite system, delays first launch
Service delays launch and eliminates some requirements for a network that the Pentagon says is needed to send intelligence data to the battlefield.
Digital Government
Defense, VA plan to have interoperable health records by September
The two departments will exchange doctors' clinical notes in a test environment this June.
Digital Government
House stimulus plan packed with $45 billion in technology spending
Funding for homeland security, health IT and broadband could turn around a flat year for government IT spending.
Digital Government
VA secretary nominee says he will automate Veterans Affairs
Shinseki tells Senate panel that leadership, not technology, is slowing the move to a shared electronic health record with Defense.
Cybersecurity
IT firm taps former intelligence official for new cybersecurity arm
Recent hiring decisions and new information security centers show the field's growing importance, analyst says.
Cybersecurity
Groups release top 25 programming errors to improve cybersecurity
Security professionals say agencies can require vendors to certify their software is free of the holes, which attackers commonly use to gain access to government networks.
Digital Government
What's Brewin: $355 million for GI bill claims system?
Culture clash between VA and SPAWAR delays system for determining educational benefits.
Digital Government
What's a chief transition officer?
Microsoft Federal has named a new kind of CTO. Carolyn Brubaker, chief transition officer, tells Nextgov how the company is preparing for the Obama administration and what it's hearing about how the incoming team might use technology to transform government.
Cybersecurity