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.
People
War accounts under attack as DOD scrambles
Warfighters caught in the crossfire of battle over supplemental funds.
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>
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