Digital Government
DOD's reliance on commercial satellites hits new zenith
The military's ad hoc reliance on commercial satellites is prolonging efforts to meet warfighters' urgent demands for bandwidth.
Digital Government
The human element complicates cybersecurity
Despite the congressional focus on cybersecurity, all the money, software and hardware in the world can’t entirely ward off cybersecurity threats. One nontechnology factor greatly impedes cybersecurity: the human factor.
Cybersecurity
Feds, cybersecurity, cloud security take center stage at RSA 2010
Federal Computer Week
Digital Government
Verizon releases framework for reporting security incidents
Government Computer News
Modernization
Army will tap its 'digital natives' for apps
Contest under way to award $30,000 in prize money for software programs that will fundamentally change the way the Army operates.
Modernization
Technology: The problem and solution for Postal Service's $238 billion shortfall
USPS says improved Web presence and mobile apps are key initiatives in its strategy to climb out of the red.
Cybersecurity
Monitoring federal networks, global supply chain part of cyber initiative
Among information the administration declassified is a call for acquisition reform to make sure technology products have not been developed to infiltrate networks and steal data.
Digital Government
Nation's cybersecurity suffers from a lack of information sharing
Lack of trust between the government and private sectors still inhibits information sharing needed to defend against rapidly evolving cyberthreats.
Ideas
Facebook No Show at Hearing
A senator chastised the social-networking service Facebook on Tuesday for refusing to attend his subcommittee hearing on global Internet freedom, while simultaneously seeking the government's help in resolving Internet blockages overseas.
Ideas
Is Cybersecurity All Hype?
Wired's Ryan Singel wrote a long <a href=http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2010/03/cyber-war-hype/>post</a> in the site's Threat Level blog arguing that much of the concern over the security of the Internet is being fueled by federal contractors, which would benefit financially from the government pursuing policies to lock it down and to track 'Net users.
Digital Government
Social Media: Is Defense Unique?
The Defense Department on Friday <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100226_3264.php">unveiled</a> its new policy allowing military members and civilians to access social media Web sites from the agency's unclassified network. Price B. Floyd, principal deputy assistant secretary of Defense for public affairs, said last week that the new policy is an attempt to change the culture at the department, particularly as young people, many of whom have grown up using social media sites like Facebook, join the military, the American Forces Press Service <a href="http://www.defense.gov//news/newsarticle.aspx?id=58135">reports</a>.
Digital Government
Piling on iPhone, Android Military Apps
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency said on Monday it wants individuals and industry to develop military iPhone and Android applications "that can be used today with little or no additional research and development expenses."
Digital Government