Digital Government
The Start of Making Cyborgs Real?
The Intelligence Advanced Research Projects Activity <a href=https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=3da082fa3b92bc8b725e56b1a450a783>wants some help</a> from smart folks who can develop new kinds of optical, biological or brain-based computers.
Digital Government
The Quest for Certification
Electronic health records are getting another boost from the Office of the National Coordinator, which on Thursday will publish a final rule for a temporary EHR certification program.
Digital Government
Military, intell agencies dismiss DARPA-led cyber range
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency may be getting squeezed out of the competition to build a test range for potential cyber security solutions.
Digital Government
Interior to get new deputy CIO
Gross takes on a new role at the Interior Department, continuing the changes at the department, Matthew Weigelt writes.
Digital Government
5 top security suites for teleworkers
Agencies are requiring robust home security software for the growing number of people working from home. The GCN Lab reviews five antivirus and antispam suites that can handle the job.
Digital Government
A cyber bill worth enacting
The long-awaited Senate cybersecurity bill, introduced by Sens. Joe Lieberman, Susan Collins and Thomas Carper, succeeds in providing a greater good in defending against cyberattacks and deserves to be enacted.
Digital Government
With social media, State embraces disruption
New technology is disruptive. But the State Department has decided that social networking can be used for agencies and against them, and its presence cannot be ignored, says the department's social media guru, Jared Cohen.
Digital Government
Why 2010 is the year of the virtual data center
Agencies focused on virtualized servers for greater efficiency are seeing only half of the picture, according to Christopher Poelker, vice president of Enterprise Solutions at FalconStor Software. A look at why 2010 will emerge as the year for virtualized storage virtual data centers.
Digital Government
Enough Tools to Telework?
Ninety-three percent of federal employees believe it is important that they continue working during an emergency or disaster, and a clear majority of those employees believe they have the tools and resources to function remotely, according to a new study by the Government Business Council and CDW Government.
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Internet fraud reporting system launched
What do the FBI, Microsoft and the American Bankers Association all have in common? Answer: They're all collaborating against online fraud.
Digital Government
Wanted: A few good IT pros
A survey of IT managers and recruiters by the Dice Report finds that 71 percent expect to hire more staff members in the second half of the year than they did in the first, and 30 percent said salaries for new hires are on the rise.
Digital Government
Meeting the prime minister of the Palestinian authority
Dr. Salaam Fayyad tells Steve Kelman's group about the Palestinian Authority's desire to build up governing capabilities in anticiaption of independence from Israel.
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Redesigned TSP website is still in testing phase
Board is committed to making site 'better, faster and more secure.'
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