Cybersecurity
Interior loses CD with personal data for 7,500 federal employees
The Interior Department's National Business Center in Denver hasn't found a compact disc that contains personally identifiable information for 7,500 federal employees
People
Navy, GSA in search of tech leaders
Navy CIO Robert Carey is expected to take on new duties within the Navy, while the General Services Administration is looking for a deputy CIO to be the liaison to other senior GSA officials.
Digital Government
Air Force calls up cell phone plan to save millions
Service will heed the advice of an employee and change its cell phone strategy.
Digital Government
Hill mulls requiring regulators to use uniform reporting format for financial industry
Common standard could highlight financial problems sooner and give the public and financial sector greater insight into markets.
Cybersecurity
DHS needs power to compel agencies to fix security holes
The Office of Management and Budget also should have the authority to tell federal managers they will help pay for the work or bluntly say they must find the money, experts tell Congress.
Digital Government
NIST seeks a qualified individual for Division Chief, Software & Systems Division
To apply, visit http://www.usajobs.opm.gov . The job announcement number: NISTITL-2010-0027
Cybersecurity
DHS: President has adequate authority to handle cyber emergencies
Existing laws allow the commander in chief to control communications during wars, senior official notes.
Digital Government
VA faces flood of new claims and charges of a 'hostile' work environment
Tests of new work processes show ways the department can manage a double-digit increase in claims it expects to receive in the next two years.
People
FCC, FDA take teamwork approach to telemedicine
The FCC and FDA have scheduled a joint public meeting in July on a teamwork approach to overseeing approval of telemedicine devices.
Cybersecurity
McCain's Dirty Cyber Politics
Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz., and Roland Burris, D-Ill., are playing politics with the Senate's new cybersecurity legislation. The mostly positive <a href="http://hsgac.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?FuseAction=Hearings.Hearing&Hearing_ID=f56ace2f-7ac6-49ff-80e3-652371bb6fa6">hearing</a> was momentarily turned into McCain's personal soapbox to espouse the Homeland Security Department's alleged mishandling of the Christmas Day terrorist attack with DHS' ability to head a newly created center for cybsecurity and communication, as proposed in the bill. As currently written, the new center would be patterned after the country's National Counterterrorism Center.
Digital Government
Meaningful Use or Bust
Growing numbers of doctors and hospitals say the deadline for meeting strict "meaningful use" standards set by the government for electronic health records is unrealistic. One man, though, is questioning whether the deadline is sufficiently ambitious.
Ideas