People
TWIC program has woes with PIN resets
Some TWIC card holders will have to replace their cards if they forget their PINs.
Modernization
Treasury adds more accountability to TARP
Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner unveiled a retooled TARP and Web site that will track funds and the effect of the financial stability plan on credit markets.
People
Bill would fund electronics recycling
A House bill would provide grants for researching new ways to sort plastic and make electronics last longer.
People
Companies seek Trade Adjustment Assistance in Stimulus
IT companies and trade groups are lobbying Congress to include trade adjustment money in the final stimulus bill.
Digital Government
Electronic health records: How to spend the money wisely
The New York Times Blogs
Cybersecurity
Bush's cyber chief calls national security initiative too secret
Greg Garcia says plan to protect major networks was coordinated and effective, but admits DHS could have done more to share information.
Modernization
NASA adds video as part of Networx progress
NASA moves videoconferencing to Networx and it moves toward a transition from FTS2001 to Networx.
Cybersecurity
State Department uses biometrics for computer access
An official says more than half of the 45,000 users of the department's unclassified network now use smart cards that contain biometrics to log onto that network.
Digital Government
What government data do you want to see?
Two open-government groups are asking the public what information it most wants the government to make more available and accessible online.
Digital Government
Obama's Transparency Lost on Defense
I had great hopes that President Obama's memo on <a href=http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/TransparencyandOpenGovernment/>transparency and openness</a> in government, as well as the new <a href=http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/FreedomofInformationAct/>Freedom of Information Act memo</a> would at last help me pry out the hidden details on the billions of dollars on task order contracts let by all three services, the Defense Information Systems Agency and other Defense agencies.
Ideas
Senate Stimulus Spares Health IT
Fellow blogger Andrew Noyes, at CongressDaily's Tech Daily Dose, reports that health care information technology looks to have (mostly) dodged the knife in the Senate's economic stimulus bill. His analysis:
Cybersecurity