People
Also in the News: White House tries new approach with YouTube
The White House is testing an in-house Flash-based solution for delivering the president's weekly video messages.
Ideas
A New Way to Manage an Agency
In this month's Government Executive magazine, Nextgov's Tech Insider blogger Robert Charette, a risk management expert who consults with federal agencies, <a href=http://www.govexec.com/features/0309-01/0309-01s2.htm>argues</a> that agencies would meet their missions better if they adopted risk management techniques as part of their strategic management plans.
Modernization
Vermont issues IT-enhanced driver's licenses
Vermont is the third state to issue enhanced driver's licenses with RFID tags that can be used instead of passports at border crossings.
People
Obama names Sebelius as HHS secretary
Kansas governor would oversee health information technology as part of reforming health care.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity recommendations make progress
The administration said today that its review of cybersecurity efforts will result in an action plan.
Cybersecurity
Lieberman questions courts on information-sharing law
Sen. Joseph Lieberman asks federal court officials if they are adequately complying with the E-Government Act that oversees release of electronic court documents to the public.
Cybersecurity
Feds look for advanced security tools to thwart hackers
Researchers want to find cybersecurity concepts so cutting edge they will catapult the government ahead of hackers' knowledge and skill.
Digital Government
Digital files on presidential helicopter found in Iran
Documents outlining an upgrade to Marine One inadvertently leaked through a peer-to-peer, music-sharing network.
Digital Government
Thumb Drives Like Unsafe Sex
That's the view of Joel Brenner, National Counter-Intelligence Executive, who said he views the use of thumb drives on national security information systems as "the electronic equivalent of unprotected sex and the biggest sources of what I call ETDs, or electronically transmitted diseases."
Ideas