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Cyberattack Estimate: 250K an Hour
Army Gen. Keith B. Alexander, the head of the new U.S. Cyber Command, estimates that bad actors now probe Defense Department networks and systems 250,000 times an hour -- or some 6 million times a day. Or this: 2.19 billion times a year.
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Advise and Consent
As the country lurches toward a future in which electronic medical records replace paper files that are at present the industry standard, resolving the question of how much control patients should have over digital files continues to be a sticky wicket.
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Performance-Based Pay
Amelia Gruber at <em>Government Executive</em> <a href="http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=45409&oref=todaysnews">writes</a> about a new report from the National Academy of Public Administration that endorses the implementation of a performance-based pay system for intelligence employees at the Defense Department. The current program - the Defense Civilian Intelligence Personnel System - is soundly designed and shows no evidence that it contributes to problems with diversity, NAPA noted in the report to Congress and the Defense Secretary.
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Data mining
Technology can make government more efficient; distrust between public and private sectors on cybersecurity; U.S. tops in malicious Web content.
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Obama Extends Same-Sex Benefits
The Obama administration on Wednesday ordered federal agencies to extend several benefits to the same-sex domestic partners of federal employees. In a <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/presidential-memorandum-extension-benefits-same-sex-domestic-partners-federal-emplo">memo</a> to agency heads, Obama identified several benefits that could be provided to same-sex partners under existing law and ordered the Office of Personnel Management to issue regulations that would:
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HHS awards $84M for community EHR systems
The Health and Human Services Department will spend $84 million for health IT systems at community health centers.
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Industry team to monitor some VA IT programs
The Veterans Affairs Department has awarded a contract worth up to $115 million to HPTi and its team members to evaluate information technology programs.
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Cybersecurity moving up on Congress' to-do list, staffer says
A Senate staffer on Thursday told a Washington audience that momentum is growing in Congress for passage of comprehensive cybersecurity legislation. Meanwhile, DHS is readying new performance metrics for FISMA compliance.
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NOAA sends high-tech research ship into Gulf
Scientists will take water samples to determine if suspended oil plumes are traveling far below the surface, depleting oxygen and threatening marine life.
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Lawmakers question agencies' online contests and prizes
Two Republicans say the White House's push for competition and cash awards wastes taxpayer money, but the White House and a federal manager say the investments are worthwhile.
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