Digital Government
Hacker who broke into federal computers loses extradition fight
Hornsey and Crouch End Journal
Digital Government
OMB asks agencies to focus on science and technology in 2011
New guidance seen as a way to support the White House policy to increase funding in research and reverse the Bush administration's cuts in spending on science.
Cybersecurity
Cyber leadership takes shape at Homeland Security
Experts hope DHS will improve coordination of cybersecurity initiatives.
Digital Government
Head of Joint Chiefs bucks social media ban in a Tweet
Adm. Mike Mullen says the right balance between security and transparency needs to be found because Defense cannot ignore social networking tools.
Digital Government
The seven deadly sins of insourcing: A request for comments
What are the pitfalls of insourcing and how might they be avoided? We will publish a selection of the best comments in an upcoming issue of Federal Computer Week.
Ideas
This is Your Budget on Stimulus
To learn just how the nearly $800 billion in stimulus spending is affecting agencies, consider this graph below. This is one slide from a presentation that Christine Shafik, director of the Office of Internal Review at the Energy Department, gave back in June at a conference for top federal executives. It shows just how much the budgets for certain offices within the Energy Department grew this year due to the stimulus bill -- money that federal employees must give out in grants and contracts.
Digital Government
A Social Network Happy Medium
Maj. Gen. Hank Morrow, commander of Air Force North, which is responsible for defending U.S. airspace, thinks a common sense approach to using social network sites such as Twitter, Facebook, MySpace and YouTube can assure security that will allow service members to continue relying on the communications tools.
Cybersecurity
Biometrics said vital for combat success
Biometrics said to give combat troops critical capabilities to carry out their missions.
Digital Government
NASA's Ambassadors
NASA has announced the selection of the first participants for its first Innovation Ambassadors program, which will enable some of NASA's most talented scientists and engineers to work at several of America's leading innovative external research and development organizations. During assignments of up to one year, the four ambassadors will share their own expertise while learning about innovative products, processes and business models, and upon returning to NASA, can share new ideas with co-workers and implement innovations within their own organizations.
People
Health IT exec Todd Park chosen HHS' CTO
The White House has named Todd Park of Athenahealth as CTO of the Health and Human Services Department.
Modernization
Marines: Facebook is not for the few good men
The Marine Corps has banned using social-networking Web sites on the service’s networks because of security concerns.
Cybersecurity
Agencies play by different rules on contractor award fees, says GAO
Federal agencies are not being consistent in how they distribute contractor award fees, according to a senior GAO official.
Modernization