Modernization

Klossner: Virtual training

FCW cartoonist John Klossner ponders the difficulty of visual humor in a networked world.

Cybersecurity

DHS expands RFID use at borders today

DHS has started the Western Hemisphere Travel Initiative, which requires displaying eligible ID documents, most with RFID tags, at land and sea borders.

Cybersecurity

$300M in transit grants to aid in homeland security projects

DHS announced $300 million in economic stimulus law funding is available for eligible port security and mass transit projects.

Digital Government

IT Budget strategies for a down economy

Optimize your IT systems without a bigger budget, from DLT and Symantec

Digital Government

Auditor blasts VA for poor IT management and oversight

Problems were caused by a poorly planned transition to a centralized management model, but a former departmental CIO says that charge is 'silly and untrue.'

Digital Government

State Department promotes Internet diplomacy

But encouraging online interaction among individuals could pose policy challenges for Obama administration.

Cybersecurity

Security is a top concern with smart electric grid

Observers split on whether Internet-based technology would ward off hackers or invite them in.

Modernization

Kundra: Government must tap into Web 2.0's potential

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, speaking at the American Council of Technology and Industry Advisory Council's Management of Change Conference, said the government must tap Web 2.0's dynamic functionality.

Cybersecurity

New cybersecurity coordinator faces complicated road

Of the major goals laid out in the Cyberspace Policy Review, creating an effective information sharing and incident response capability across government and the private sector presents some of the greatest technological challenges and trickiest policy minefields.