Cybersecurity
DHS tests cyber response plan in global drill
The Homeland Security Department began its second day of a three-day global cybersecurity exercise intended to test readiness for large-scale cyberattacks.
Digital Government
DOD officials face Senate ire over budgetary measures
DOD officials were questioned over plans for trimming the defense budget, including closing the Joint Forces Command.
Modernization
Agencies get advice on record retention in the cloud
Agencies face problems deploying records into the cloud while maintaining their record preservation responsibilities, according to an NARA official.
Acquisition
DOD dropped the ball on workforce reviews, GAO says
DOD officials might have lost an opportunity to build for the future, GAO officials wrote in a letter to congressional committees.
Digital Government
Should your agency be run more like a business?
Every once in a while the argument surfaces that government should be run like a business. Well, one federal entity already is run like a business: the U.S. Postal Service.
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