Cybersecurity
Obama wants nearly $80B for IT projects
The administration has proposed only a small increase for IT spending in fiscal 2011.
Digital Government
Congress should allocate radio frequency band for public safety
Government Computer News
Digital Government
Evolving guidelines seek to harmonize IT security for government systems
Government Computer News
Digital Government
Obama budget proposal counts on IT to save millions
Enterprise software licenses, turning off computers at night and eliminating paper check stubs among ways to try to make a dent in a record $1.6 trillion deficit.
Digital Government
Obama's $3.8 trillion budget slashes 120 programs
Terminating or reducing funding for those programs would save more than $20 billion, White House officials say.
Cybersecurity
Delays prompt White House to propose deep cut in secure border initiative
Homeland Security proposes 28 percent decrease, enough to complete the project's first phase and require progress reports to be filed before spending large amounts.
Digital Government
Report finds the most worrisome cyber threats are China -- and the U.S.
Some IT and security executives see foreign governments as a threat to their critical infrastructure.
Ideas
Geeks Are Studs
For decades, computer geeks - the pocket-protector crowd -- have been considered the bottom feeders in the dating ocean. (We're talking about men, here, not the female techies.) But guys take heart. Technologists just actually may be more attractive to women than their rivals in other occupations.
Digital Government
Wildfire Radios Sent to Haiti
When the U.S. Southern Command needed a whole mess of radios to support folks engaged in Haitian relief operations, it turned to the <a href=http://www.nifc.gov/communications_radios.htm>National Interagency Fire Center</a> in Boise, Idaho.
People
The 2.0 presidency: Obama to stage YouTube-based exchange
Experts say the president's Feb. 3 venture helps validate the role in social media in governance.
Digital Government
A 1.4% Proposed 2011 Pay Raise?
The White House is scheduled to release its fiscal 2011 budget blueprint on Feb. 1, and federal employees will be anxious to learn the Obama administration's proposal for federal pay in 2011. If history is a guide, and the president follows his promise to ensure pay parity between military members and federal civilians, federal employees should be in line for a 1.4 percent pay raise in 2011.
Cybersecurity
DARPA: Calling all cyber geneticists
A DARPA research program would combine technologies to apply genetics, anthropology, sociology and physiology to the identification of cyberattackers.
Digital Government
Federal contracts for health IT might be less than you think
The federal government is spending about $900 million this year on direct contracts for health IT, according to FedSources expert Ray Bjorklund.
People