Digital Government

Will cyberattacks lead to bomb-and-bullets war?

Until now, the combination of cyber and war sparked notions of virtual armies slamming away at each other in cyberspace, a nasty confrontation online but relatively harmless for regular folks.

Digital Government

What's on Martha Dorris' reading list?

Recommendations from the deputy associate administrator of the Office of Citizen Services and Communications at the General Services Administration.

Digital Government

Cognitive radios would give future warfighters upper hand

Smart radios could do everything but turn themselves on -- if Army researchers can make them a reality.

Digital Government

The Retirement Wave Opportunity

An aging federal workforce combined with rapid technological change have long been considered as challenges to future government performance. The <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/">fiscal 2011 budget proposal</a> unveiled by the White House on Monday again poses such issues as pending challenges for government, but it also highlights the potential opportunities they may bring.

Digital Government

HHS budget highlights IT initiatives

The Health and Human Services Department's proposed $81 billion discretionary budget for fiscal 2011 includes a few nuggets of increased IT spending.

Digital Government

VA freezes IT budget for 2011

The Veterans Affairs Department is looking at a flat level of $3.3 billion for information technology in fiscal 2011, but managed some increases for benefits automation and telemedicine.

Digital Government

White House budget document shows IT spending winners, losers

Defense Department would receive the biggest increase, while the tech budgets for Commerce, Homeland Security, Interior, Labor, and NASA would be cut.

Digital Government

VA tests online score card for IT projects

Site is designed to add more detail on status of projects in governmentwide IT dashboard.

Digital Government

NASA's moon program on chopping block

Wall Street Journal

Digital Government

That Brit Report On Chinese Cyber Spying

The <em>New York Times</em> rather breathlessly <a href=http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/01/world/europe/01spy.html>reported</a> during the past weekend that in 2007 the head of British intelligence warned businesses in England that Chinese intelligence agencies were engaged in a wide ranging effort to hack into their computers.

Digital Government

Katie Stanton brings Silicon Valley know-how to Foggy Bottom

Having served in senior positions at Google and Yahoo, Katie Stanton’s résumé doesn't resemble one of a typical State Department insider. And that is exactly why she is the department's new director of citizen participation and special adviser on innovation.