Digital Government
GAO offers advice as SSA prepares to replace its aging data center
Government Computer News
Digital Government
Bill would shut down over-budget, behind-schedule IT projects
Agencies would receive support from IT team for projects that run over original cost estimates, with severely over-budget ones facing cancellation.
Cybersecurity
Critics say bill to protect electric grid from cyberattacks lacks teeth
Measure enhances government's role in cybersecurity, but does little to encourage industry to take more precautions.
Ideas
'Government Not Always the Solution'
Macon Phillips, the White House director of new media, has a proposition for open government advocates who want a federal Web site that will let them suggest recommendations for a forthcoming open government directive:
Digital Government
Big-Time Broadband For Afghan
President Obama plans to send <a href=http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0219/p01s01-usfp.html>17,000 more U.S. troops</a> to Afghanistan this year, boosting total U.S. forces in that country to more than 40,000. Other NATO countries, primarily the United Kingdom, have sent about another 20,000 troops.
Cybersecurity
Carper introduces bills to reform IT procurement, FISMA
New legislation would reform the security and acquisition requirements for federal information technology systems.
People
Officials: DOD acquisition workforce will grow
Defense Department officials are expanding the contracting workforce to better handle the money DOD is spending.
Modernization
DISA seeks input on the GIG's architecture
The agency wants help from industry in defining the acquisition strategy for the Global Information Grid’s network management architecture.
Cybersecurity
Swine flu hearings set; OPM issues guidance
Senate and House panels have scheduled hearings on the disease outbreak, and the Office of Personnel Management has issued advice to federal employees.
Cybersecurity
Auditors: Coast Guard, FEMA weak on controls
The Coast Guard and FEMA still struggle with IT control problems, auditors say.
People
Get a Life!: The perfect storm
Swine flu adds to a perfect storm of challenges for the new administration and federal workers, writes blogger Judy Welles.
Cybersecurity