Cybersecurity
White House, Homeland Security join forces on cybersecurity
Protecting computer networks is a team effort, officials emphasize.
Digital Government
Recovery Act Update: Details and Solutions Construction Professionals Need
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Digital Government
Administration has yet to make proposed security policy revisions public
Transparency groups want an opportunity to comment before suggestions for preventing over-classification of government information are sent to the president.
Cybersecurity
Health IT group to offer security certification to vendors
The Health Information Trust Alliance will certify security products against its Common Security Framework as the government moves to establish an infrastructure, national standards and privacy requirements for the handling of electronic health care records.
Ideas
Storm Spike Due To Stronger Tech
On the fourth anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, the agency charged with weather forecasting recently found that more storms have been identified since the late 19th century because of advances in information technology, not because there are more storms.
Digital Government
IG Slams VA IT Shop - Again
The Veterans Affairs Department lack of in-house expertise to support, manage and execute complex information technology projects contributed to the near collapse of the department's efforts to develop a <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090331_5665.php>new replacement patient scheduling application</a> at a cost of $167 million over eight years, the VA Inspector General said in a <a href=http://www.va.gov/oig/52/reports/2009/VAOIG-09-01926-207.pdf>report</a> released yesterday.
Digital Government
Health Records Come to SSA
The Social Security Administration announced Thursday that it has entered into an agreement with Microsoft to test the use of its HealthVault application in the process of determining disability benefits. The technology, which allows applicants to gather, store and manage their families' heath information and share that information with their physicians and health care providers, contains the same types of information that Social Security generally obtains from people applying for disability benefits.
Cybersecurity
Bill would give president power to disconnect private networks
A Senate bill proposes giving the president the power to shut down and disconnect any government or private computer network or system that is compromised by a cyberattack.
Digital Government
Seeking Employees' Ideas Through Web 2.0
Federal Times <a href="http://www.federaltimes.com/index.php?S=4253740">reports</a> that the Obama administration is planning to seek ideas from the 18,000 employees of the Veterans Benefits Administration on how to reduce the backlog and more quickly get benefits to veterans. The effort will involve a Web-based survey that will test how the government uses the Web and new technologies as well as define new ways of how agencies listen to their employees.
Cybersecurity
DHS sets new policy on computer searches at border
DHS issued two new directives that deal with searches of laptop computers and other devices at U.S. borders.
Modernization
Air Force angers small businesses with code decision
Officials are opting for a NAICS code that sets a larger small-business size standard after switching this spring from a code with a more restrictive size standard.
People
VA blames coding error for fatal disease scare
The VA now blames computer coding error for wrongly informing about 620 veterans that they have the fatal Lou Gehrig's disease.
People
SSA testing Microsoft HealthVault
SSA has made an agreement with Microsoft HealthVault to link to patient medical data to improve the determinations of disability.
Modernization
Microsoft continues battle to save Word
Microsoft's appeal essentially argues that a district court judge who held against it was incompetent as a gatekeeper and in striking the "delicate balance" needed in patent law disputes.
Modernization
Army expects new network to reduce costs 65 percent
The Army has ordered a new optical network linking White Sands and Fort Bliss that it expects to cut costs by more than half.
Modernization
Analysis: Still struggling to protect remote data
Three years after encryption mandate, transmitting information from the field continues to be risky.
Digital Government