Digital Government
CIO Guthrie's Big Task
Priscilla Guthrie <a href=http://techinsider.nextgov.com/2009/03/priscilla_guthrie_named_cio_fo.php>started work</a> this week as the intelligence community chief information officer. Dennis Blair, director of national intelligence, emphasized that one of her key tasks will be to "advance our information sharing goals."
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Health IT standards panel creates workgroups
After it gets some policy guidance, the Health IT Standards Committee will ask its three new workgroups to deliver recommendations in 90 days.
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Obama misses key elements in rolling back secrecy practices
Administration should consider policies on how to handle sensitive information when it is created and how it applies to electronic forms, records specialists say.
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Bio-Labs Cyber Threats Ignored?
Laboratories that conduct research on dangerous biological agents such as anthrax have not paid much attention to the potential of cyber threats or cyber intrusions, the Defense Science Board <a href=http://www.acq.osd.mil/dsb/reports/2009-05-Bio_Safety.pdf>said in a report</a> released this week.
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GSA to make new bid for agency customers
Ed O'Hare, the new leader of GSA's Integrated Technology Services, aims to make GSA's services faster, better and cheaper than what other agencies can offer.
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Defense Intelligence Agency launches IT services contract
Procurement estimated to be worth $6.6 billion over five years.
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IG: Weak controls jeopardize TSA's financial data
Agency's failure to limit access to computer systems to the employees who need it leaves information vulnerable, auditors say.
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