People
New swine flu money could go for monitoring
The administration's request for $1.5 billion to deal with swine flu could fund disease monitoring and tracking.
Modernization
GSA signs agreements with Web 2.0 providers
Several terms of service agreements reached with new media providers clear the way for federal agencies to use the social networking services.
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