Digital Government

Technology limitations hamper SEC enforcement efforts

GAO reports outdated systems limit effectiveness of agency's enforcement division.

Digital Government

DHS begins deploying technology component of its virtual fence

First phase of construction includes a network of 200 ground sensors and a series of towers equipped with cameras and radars on Arizona's border with Mexico.

Digital Government

The Budget: A 'Scintillating' Read

The fine print and programmatic details of President Obama's proposed fiscal 2010 budget runs 1,380 pages in an appendix, with each and every page worth a perusal, OMB director Peter Orszag told a press briefing this morning.

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Future Combat Systems Minus Vehicles

As expected, the Obama administration took a budget axe to the Army Future Combat Systems program. It chopped all of the project's eight manned ground vehicles from the program for a savings of $22.9 billion, according to the <a href=http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/TRS/>Terminations, Reductions and Savings section</a> of the proposed fiscal 2010 federal budget released today.

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Veterans Affairs seeks 6 percent hike in IT spending for fiscal 2010

Large portion of increase would go to the Veterans Benefits Administration and to fund the development of a new financial management system.

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Several agencies are headed for a modest increase in IT spending

SSA, Homeland Security, USDA and others receive boosts for technology projects.

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Missed Buying an Enigma Machine

I like serendipity when it happens -- especially when it concerns something as odd as the current head of the National Security Agency and the German World War II encryption device known as the "<a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enigma_machine>Enigma Machine</a>."

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Coast Guard to harness ocean data to improve search and rescue

The Coast Guard can use maps of ocean surface currents to track probable paths of shipwreck victims and drifting lifeboats.