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