Digital Government
Study links online transparency efforts, trust in government
More than 36,000 citizens rate 14 agencies' sites on openness.
Digital Government
Military could lose its technological edge, top official warns
Federal Computer Week
Cybersecurity
Software developers are to blame for most cyberattacks, say security experts
Researchers release a new list of dangerous programming errors.
Digital Government
Simulation shows government lacks policies needed to respond to cyberattack
The risk is not that the government would do too much, but rather it would not have responded strong enough, said a participant in the exercise.
Ideas
Xbox to Aid E-Health?
The Xbox, Microsoft's powerful video game console, may soon be good for more than just virtual basketball games and war simulations. Company researchers currently are looking to adapt the device to various healthcare needs, including the transfer and display of electronic medical records.
Digital Government
Microsoft official and GCN editor talk cloud on C-SPAN
Wyatt Kash, editor of 1105 Government Information Group's Government Computer News, will appear on C-SPAN to discuss cloud computing.
Digital Government
Timing the pre-emptive cyber defense
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency is apparently turning to the hacker community for its next level of cybersecurity development.
Digital Government
DISA to establish safe haven outside the Internet
The Defense Information Systems Agency is developing plans to cordon off its unclassified networks from public Internet access.
Digital Government
Food-safety, public health surveillance IT highlight FDA fiscal 2011 budget request
The Food and Drug Administration wants a 23 percent increase in its budget for fiscal 2011 in part to expand several information technology programs.
Digital Government
HHS Open Government Web site snowed by bad timing?
As of today, only three people have commented on the new Open HHS Blog. That seems to suggest a slow start to the discussion about how HHS can be more transparent and more accessible.
Cybersecurity
DHS gets new intell chief
Caryn Wagner started today as head of the DHS office that uses information technology to share homeland security-related data with state and local authorities.
Acquisition