Digital Government

Rural broadband: No job creation machine

The New York Times Blogs

Digital Government

Ease the Pain of FISMA Compliance in Cross-Platform Environments

Click here to improve your FISMA Report Card grade, from Centrify Corporation

Cybersecurity

DHS to use more simulations in infrastructure protection

Plan emphasizes importance of cybersecurity drills, but is light on specifics.

Digital Government

Farm Service to seek additional $200 million to fund modernization

Agency likely to receive lawmakers' support for new payment system, despite economic stimulus package providing only 20 percent of needed funds.

People

Get a Life: Front page challenge

The stimulus is an opportunity for federal workers to prove to the public that they have special jobs and know how to do them, writes blogger Judy Welles.

Ideas

A 'Rudderless' 2010 Budget?

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Cybersecurity

No one is 100 percent secure

The data breach at the Federal Aviation Administration, recently lauded for its cybersecurity practices, shows that how agencies respond to incidents is as important as their work to prevent them.

Modernization

Transparency of Recovery.gov under scrutiny

State and local databases might not feed information to Recovery.gov easily because of incompatibility issues.

Cybersecurity

Infrastructure protection plan calls for data warehouse

DHS is working on creating a national data warehouse as part of its updated National Infrastructure Protection Plan released on Feb. 19