Cybersecurity
Defense cybersecurity budget request likely a third more than reported
More than $1 billion in fiscal 2009 IT security budget request embedded in general program spending, not linked to networks, research group estimates.
Digital Government
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Digital Government
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Modernization
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Ideas
Tech No Stranger to Inaugural Addresses
One last note about the inauguration. It's not surprising that Obama mentioned technology (and science) in his inaugural address. After all, technology -- or its synonym, digital -- will play a supporting role in much of what Obama wants to accomplish. From Obama's speech:
Ideas
Obama Unveils Cybersecurity Agenda
Buried under the <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/agenda/homeland_security/">Homeland Security agenda</a> section on WhiteHouse.gov is the administration's plan to protect our national information networks. The entire cybersecurity section is copied after the jump:
Modernization
IG: Air Force wireless project over budget
DOD's inspector general recommends reorganizing, recompeting wireless network project.
Cybersecurity
Administration to establish major office for cyber matters
A national cyber adviser who would report directly to the president would be chosen under the White House's 44-point agenda for homeland security.
Modernization