Cybersecurity
A reader's guide to safer passwords
Readers of Federal Computer Week and Government Computer News share their secrets for creating foolproof passwords.
Digital Government
Industry team to monitor some VA IT programs
The Veterans Affairs Department has awarded a contract worth up to $115 million to HPTi and its team members to evaluate information technology programs.
Digital Government
Lawmakers question agencies' online contests and prizes
Two Republicans say the White House's push for competition and cash awards wastes taxpayer money, but the White House and a federal manager say the investments are worthwhile.
Digital Government
NOAA sends high-tech research ship into Gulf
Scientists will take water samples to determine if suspended oil plumes are traveling far below the surface, depleting oxygen and threatening marine life.
Digital Government
Cybersecurity moving up on Congress' to-do list, staffer says
A Senate staffer on Thursday told a Washington audience that momentum is growing in Congress for passage of comprehensive cybersecurity legislation. Meanwhile, DHS is readying new performance metrics for FISMA compliance.
Digital Government
FISMA reform would elevate White House's cyber authority
Government Computer Week
Ideas
Layering the Oil Spill Fall Out
The oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico has generated lots of computer models, applications and Web sites. Here's another one: <a href=http://www.geoplatform.gov/erma.html#x=-90.42000&y=28.03000&z=6&layers=>Geoplatform.gov</a>, developed by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric and Administration.
Digital Government
How Far Would You Drive for Billions?
The Technology Acquisition Center at the Veterans Affairs Department held an industry day for its planned $12 billion <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20091203_2809.php>Transformation Twenty-One Total Technology</a> (T4) procurement at a hotel near its headquarters in Eatontown, N.J. -- a trip some potential bidders found a wee bit too far.
Digital Government
Future oil spills could be averted by Regulation 3.0 apps
Federal regulators should not depend on companies feeding — and perhaps filtering — information to them, writes W. David Stephenson, a Government/Enterprise 2.0 consultant.
Digital Government
Federal employees shouldn't be slaves to rules
Federal managers should combat employees' perceptions that their job is simply to follow the rules, writes FCW columnist Steve Kelman.
Digital Government
Top leaders are realizing that, when it comes to IT security, ignorance is costly
Effective cybersecurity requires approaches that look at vulnerability and risk through the dual lenses of technology and policy, writes commentator Chris Bronk.
Cybersecurity
White House names new chief of terrorism-related info sharing environment
The Obama administration has named a new leader for an office tasked with improving how agencies share terrorism-related information.
Acquisition