Modernization

Standards needed for cloud computing

Federal Computer Week

Digital Government

Officials criticize Defense's 'unreliable' health record system

The services' surgeon generals tell the Hill that the medical network frequently crashes and is causing a 'near mutiny' among doctors.

Digital Government

BearingPoint acquisition to strengthen Deloitte in federal market

Purchase could more than double consulting firm's revenue and cause subtle changes in pricing for federal agencies.

Ideas

DeSeve Named to Recovery Act Post

Edward DeSeve, the deputy director for the Office of Management and Budget for about two years in the Clinton administration, has been named special adviser to the president, assistant to the vice president and special adviser to the OMB director for implementation of the Recovery Act. According to the press release sent out Monday evening:

Digital Government

Cyber Warriors Will Still Fill Sandbags

I <a href= wrote a piece</a> today about an article in the spring 2009 issue of the <em>IANewsletter</em>, published by the Defense Information Assurance Technology Analysis Center. The article made some compelling arguments for the establishment of a fourth service to conduct cyberwarfare.

Modernization

Experts: Standards needed for cloud computing

Federal agencies should develop and deploy cloud-computing technology and standards will follow, speakers say.

Ideas

Guthrie Named ODNI CIO

In case you missed <a href="http://twitter.com/Nextgov/status/1362927917">this</a> on Friday afternoon, President Obama nominated <strong>Priscilla Guthrie</strong> to be chief information officer at the Office of Director of National Intelligence. Guthrie, currently director of the Information Technology and Systems Division at the nonprofit Institute for Defense Analyses, was previously deputy assistant secretary of Defense and deputy CIO in the Defense Department from 2001 to 2006.

People

Diebold admits voting system flaws

The company formerly known as Diebold Election Systems admits that it's possible to delete votes from its machines without detection.

Cybersecurity

Senator says his office computers were hacked

Sen. Bill Nelson (D-Fla.) said his office's computers were recently multiple times. He and two other senators are crafting a cybersecurity bill.

Cybersecurity

GAO: DHS has mixed record on FOIA

Some DHS agencies are falling behind on their Freedom of Information Act requests, while others saw improvement in the past two years, GAO says.

People

Federal 100 winner: Robert Carey

Carey has taken a strong leadership role as co-chairman of the CIO Council’s new Information Security and Identity Management Committee, which is aligning the efforts of a number of related groups.

Modernization

Federal 100 winner: Lt. Col. Richard Leino

Leino orchestrated the development of a system that enables Marines to stay connected to the Navy Marine Corps Intranet while in the field.

Modernization

Federal 100 winner: Miguel A. Rivera

Rivera laid the groundwork that allows departmentwide information sharing through the DHS Infrastructure Transformation Program.

Digital Government

Federal 100 winner: Alan Paller

Paller helped develop the overall strategy for the Trusted Internet Connections initiative.

Cybersecurity

Federal 100 winner: Rear Adm. Michael Brown

Brown brought a personal touch when building the teams that are entrusted with securing the government’s most critical networks and emergency communications systems.