Digital Government

Allen: Integrated chip provides all-purpose security

Wired into PC motherboard, the Trusted Platform Module offers multilayer e-authentication.

Digital Government

Circuit

If there’s something strange in your Capitol ’hood, who you gonna call?; Lawmaker proposes bill to protect the dead from identity theft; Working on Mars time; Rolling Stones make special appearance at GSA HQ as Doan channels Jagger.

Modernization

Printing for your eyes only

Silex SecurePrint secures an overlooked vulnerability: The printer tray.

Modernization

Davis challenges FTI's value

Government Reform Committee chairman wants DOT to prove the worth of telecommunications system.

People

Williams to head GSA's FAS

Jim Williams leaves the Homeland Security Department to become commissioner of the Federal Acquisition Service.

Modernization

Alternative Technology adds Fortinet security systems to GSA Schedule

Fortinet's FrontGate security system will now be available through resellers.

Digital Government

Lisagor: Five habits to avoid

Incompetent managers are easy to spot and difficult for employees to tolerate.

People

Emergency response portals ready for hurricane season

InsideNASA and NGA’s Virtual Earth can quickly shift into crisis mode when disaster strikes.

Modernization

Alienware offers snazzy workstation

Powerful mobile workstation is a good replacement for desktop PCs.

Digital Government

GSA' Doan first steps seem positive

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Digital Government

Can you hear us now? Well, no!

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People

War accounts under attack as DOD scrambles

Warfighters caught in the crossfire of battle over supplemental funds.

Digital Government

A high court ruling on whistle blowers

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Modernization

DOD to build EA from ground up

Defense officials say the department is too big to push its Business Enterprise Architecture down to all the military services and agencies. So, they’re promoting a federated approach that focuses on the component agencies. Defense components must adopt an organized structure that will align business rules and processes with the BEA. The Business Transformation Agency issued a draft of this structure, called the Business Mission Area Federation Strategy, last week.

People

Robbins-Gioia acquires Parks Consulting

Transaction expands Robbins-Gioia's reach in markets and geography.

Modernization

DISA seeks input on insider threat tools

The Defense Information Systems Agency seeks a tool that could counter insider threats to DOD information systems.

Modernization

Sign-ups for FirstGov’s e-mail alerts, RSS increase

FirstGov.gov has become a popular Web site for its e-mail alerts, especially since the personal information of millions of U.S. veterans was stolen.

People

State CIOs skeptical of hurricane readiness

Conference attendees say that communications interoperability problems that plagued disaster responses last year have not been fixed.

People

A-76 to play larger role in FMLOB

The Office of Management and Budget has added an unexpected and somewhat confusing twist to the Financial Management Line of Business initiative. Agencies or bureaus with 10 or more employees operating financial systems that do not comply with Financial System Integration Office requirements must now compete for, at minimum, the hosting and application management of their financial systems.<@SM>

People

Commerce sets up IT security education program

The first step toward better information security in the government is to provide more training for the people responsible for keeping systems safe. That’s the approach being taken by Nancy DeFrancesco, chief information security officer for the Commerce Department.