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Lawmaker proposes banning federal use of certain file-sharing software
Oversight committee chair also pledges an investigation into whether vendors can be held responsible for failing to install adequate privacy safeguards.
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Five Social Networking Keys
Tim Wright has an interesting post on Examiner.com about the top five social networking sites those of older generations should take a peek at in an attempt to understand and engage with Generation Y. Simply taking one hour to look at these social networks, Wright argues, "will enhance
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House Hot About 'Propaganda' Info Ops
The Defense Department's budget for information operations - that's everything from plain vanilla public affairs to targeted messages and canned 'news stories" to influence audiences in Iraq and Afghanistan - has jumped a hundred fold in the past four years, from $9 million in 2005 to what the House Appropriations Committee called a "staggering" $988 million budget request for fiscal 2010.
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Three Challenges for Cybersecurity
The federal government's need for attracting and retaining cybersecurity expertise has been making a lot of headlines lately, especially in light of the cyberattacks that knocked a few U.S. and South Korean Web sites off line earlier this month. A <a href="http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2009/07/cyber_insecurity.php">report</a> released last week by the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton found that a successful government scholarship program that graduates about 120 students each year and places them in federal cybersecurity jobs is not coming close to meeting the demand for such expertise. Officials estimate that between 500 and 1,000 such graduates are needed each year.
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Fred Schobert joins Topside Consulting
Schobert was director of the Office of Infrastructure Optimization in a section of the Federal Acquisition Service.
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A Look at Generation Z
Penelope Trunk has an interesting <a href="http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2009/07/27/what-work-will-be-like-for-generation-z/">post</a> on the Brazen Careerist blog about what Generation Z (those born between the mid-1990s through the 2000s) will be like at work.
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Spires named Homeland Security CIO, faces 'huge challenges'
The IRS' former chief information officer is credited with turning around that agency's modernization program, a feat that helped him land his new post, sources say.
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Employee: Military Health System was unethical in awarding contract
Internal e-mails allege top officials provided a technology company with software code and documents for the military's massive electronic health record system and awarded it a contract without competition.
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Lack of coordination stalls emergency response planning
Homeland Security claims a lack of incentives make it difficult to compel federal agencies to collaborate.
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