Digital Government
DHS begins deploying technology component of its virtual fence
First phase of construction includes a network of 200 ground sensors and a series of towers equipped with cameras and radars on Arizona's border with Mexico.
Digital Government
Technology limitations hamper SEC enforcement efforts
GAO reports outdated systems limit effectiveness of agency's enforcement division.
Digital Government
Single Web site key for vets' combined medical, benefits record
Baker, VA's CIO appointee, tells Senate panel that more can be done to support vets, but "the road ahead is unlikely to be incident free."
Ideas
Time for Jeers?
Lurita Doan, the head of the General Services Administration for two years in the Bush administration and now a commentator on Federal News Radio, has a weekly feature on the station's Federal Drive program during which she offers up her "cheers and jeers" for the federal community.
Digital Government
The Budget: A 'Scintillating' Read
The fine print and programmatic details of President Obama's proposed fiscal 2010 budget runs 1,380 pages in an appendix, with each and every page worth a perusal, OMB director Peter Orszag told a press briefing this morning.
Digital Government
Future Combat Systems Minus Vehicles
As expected, the Obama administration took a budget axe to the Army Future Combat Systems program. It chopped all of the project's eight manned ground vehicles from the program for a savings of $22.9 billion, according to the <a href=http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/TRS/>Terminations, Reductions and Savings section</a> of the proposed fiscal 2010 federal budget released today.
Cybersecurity
Hacker demands $10M ransom for data
The FBI and state authorities are investigating a case in which a hacker wants $10 million for the return of sensitive information, according to media reports.
Modernization
White House proposes cuts to FCS
The budget request would cut funding by more than $600 million for the Future Combat Systems program.
People
White House seeks cuts to defense contractor workforce
The Obama administration wants to save $900 million by reducing defense contractor employees and get $2 billion by collecting delinquent taxes from federal contractors.
Modernization
NASA wins two awards for sites
NASA’s primary Web site won a People’s Voice award, and the Cassini mission site was named best science site.
Acquisition
IG finds conflict in the acquisition regulation
Officials question whether small-business set-asides should override giving all companies a chance to bid on a task or delivery order.
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