Cybersecurity
Commerce seeks industry comment on ways to bolster cybersecurity
Possible strategies to encourage best practices include financial incentives.
Digital Government
Inflexible budgets and changing threats hinder information sharing
Intelligence community must adjust priorities and expose data more widely, observers say.
Digital Government
Agencies begin to identify failing IT projects for high-risk list
OMB says if flagged programs aren't turned around, they could be cut from next budget cycle.
Digital Government
Moratorium on financial projects could leave staff in the lurch
Move to review modernization initiatives for cost and schedule problems will have unintended consequences, industry officials say.
Digital Government
Obama Orders Second Try at Bringing More Disabled into Federal Workforce
President Obama hopes to succeed where President Clinton failed, and reinvigorate a 10-year-old plan to bring 100,000 disabled workers into the federal workforce.
Digital Government
Correction: Lockheed Martin pushes forward with realignment
This article was corrected July 28, 2010, to state that Lockheed Martin's Information Systems and Global Solutions business earned $5.03 billion in sales during the first six months of 2010.
Digital Government
Pen And Paper No More
Good technology currently being used in physicians' offices may be outdated in the coming months, and not just because of the speed at which IT develops.
Ideas
O-Gov May Muck Up Agency Sites
Americans' satisfaction with online government services is slipping, according to the latest report from the quarterly e-government American Customer Satisfaction Index. Agencies during the second quarter received an aggregate score of 74.7 on a 100-point scale, down slightly from the first quarter's score of 75.1.
Digital Government
Diversity in IT Jobs
Several demographic groups remained underrepresented in the federal workforce in fiscal 2009, according to a new report by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission.
Acquisition
Taking the pulse of contracting professionals
A recent conference provided gave blogger Steve Kelman an opportunity to see how procurement executives view strategic sourcing and insourcing.
Digital Government
Speedy Hiring for AF Cyber Pros
The Air Force has authorized federal hiring managers to use a streamlined hiring authority to help speed the process of filling more than 680 cybersecurity jobs. The authority - known as Schedule A - allows jobseekers to be considered for cyber positions without being subject to standard qualification requirements and rating procedures.
Digital Government
@Twitter: Two geeks, a life form and a TV show
Tweeted recently from inside GSA: TV show idea: Two geeky teens create an organic lifeform that oversees service delivery across federal government. Title: 'Weird Zients.'
Cybersecurity
Security Controls At Their Worst?
The Pentagon has launched a "very robust investigation" into the source of the leak of more than 90,000 classified documents on the war in Afghanistan, <a href=http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2010/07/27/earlyshow/main6716974.shtml>Geoff Morrell told CBS' The Early Show</a> Tuesday, but what few are discussing is how the source got away with it.
Digital Government
NASA's Davis goes to VA
Jerry Davis, chief information security officer at NASA, is leaving to join the Veterans Affairs Department.
People