Cybersecurity
Feds' third cybersecurity exercise to attack content and identities
Cyber Storm III will use known hacker attacks to hijack certificates that verify content is legitimate and e-mails are authentic.
Modernization
Transportation, industry look for ways to stop distracted driving
Government and companies disagree on the best policies to curb the use of digital devices while in automobiles.
Digital Government
White House boosts effort to keep fake products out of procurement
New interagency group aims to stop counterfeit goods from entering Defense supply chain.
Digital Government
Defense brass tells Hill reasons for shutting CIO office
Combat commanders do not know which organization to ask for IT solutions, but industry worries the changes could lead to the top tech position not having the authority to manage systems properly.
Digital Government
Kundra sets new IPv6 deadlines
The Obama administration has set deadlines and offered guidelines for the transition of government networks to the next generation of Internet Protocols.
Digital Government
Twitter Uses NSA PR Playbook
At first glance there's no similarity between the oh-so-hip-microblogging service Twitter and the staid and secretive National Security Agency.
Digital Government
Texting About A Texting Ban
In something of an irony, the Transportation Department considered comments from an online dialogue promoted via text-messaging service Twitter to finalize a new rule that bans commercial truck and bus operators from texting while driving. The regulation, which was <a href="http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2010/2010-23861.htm">published</a> in Monday's <em>Federal Register</em>, cites comments contributed by Cornell Law School's pilot initiative to crowdsource rulemaking, or tap the wisdom of the online masses to inform policy.
Cybersecurity
Army takes on acquisition, cyberspace and culture
The Army's cyber component's opening comes during unprecedented challenges in upgrading its IT services.
Digital Government
Army tests electronic, updatable manuals for the field
The Army is testing a variety of applications and devices, including a Kindle, six iPads and an Entourage Edge, as potential platforms for battlefield systems manuals.
Ideas
Wikileaks' OGov Lessons
What the ongoing furor over the WikiLeaks phenomenon has revealed, <a href="http://www.thenation.com/print/article/154780/wikileaks-and-hacktivist-culture">writes</a> Peter Ludlow, author of <em>Crypto Anarchy, Cyberstates, and Pirate Utopias</em>, "is that the media and government agencies believe there is a single protagonist to be concerned with--something of a James Bond villain, if you will."
Digital Government
Top 10 signs you have a Rising Star on staff
FCW cartoonist and blogger John Klossner suggests 10 totally believable signs that a colleague might be a future Rising Star award winner.
Acquisition
SSA's tracking of computer buys is a mess, IG says in report
It's not possible to know if the Social Security Administration overpaid or underpaid for some computers because the recordkeeping is so poor, according to a new report.
Digital Government