Cybersecurity
Hacker groups snipe each other
As LulzSec and Anonymous team up to hack government websites, a third group emerges.
Modernization
Cloud security may be the easiest problem to solve
The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program requirements for authorizing the use of cloud services are expected soon, but security might be the simplest issue to solve in the federal adoption of cloud computing.
Digital Government
Medicago receives $5.6M from DARPA for RTP flu vaccine plant
Triangle Business Journal
Digital Government
House panel unanimously endorses new government-spending oversight board
Oversight Committee's ranking member questions the new group's subpoena power and transparency advocates oppose a sunset provision.
People
Transportation Command wants greenhouse gas tracking
The U.S. Transportation Command wants help to develop ways to measure the carbon footprint of its vehicles.
Digital Government
Tax compliance software fails IRS
IRS can't even catch all of its own potential tax cheats, thanks in part to software that misses some possibly noncompliant filers, audit concludes.
Digital Government
State starts mobile app for travelers
The State Department starts a mobile application to help U.S. travelers abroad.
Modernization
Navy to dismantle James Bond spy ship
The stealth ship inspired a villain's vessel in the James Bond film "Tomorrow Never Dies."
Digital Government