Cybersecurity

Clarke: Who leads cybersecurity?

The former special adviser to the president on cybersecurity has this advice for the DHS secretary: Find out who's in charge of cybersecurity.

People

GAO urges planning consistency at TSA

The Transportation Security Administration needs better planning and risk management assessment, GAO says.

People

Walker: Replace fed structure

It's unsustainable, says the U.S. comptroller general.

People

IAIP boss: Cut could impede efforts

But threat-determination function doesn't need that much work after a baseline is laid down, Patrick Hughes says.

People

Hughes to depart DHS

The acting undersecretary for the Information Analysis and Infrastructure Protection Director said he will retire in March.

Modernization

Army to pick FCS system in 2006

The analysis of potential operating systems for the Future Combat System will be completed by mid-2006, says an FCS program manager.

Modernization

Brailer promotes EHR

The national coordinator for health IT views the ability to share clinical data across the health care industry as key to development of a nationwide electronic health records system.

People

FDA to launch drug safety Web site

The Food and Drug Administration plans to launch a Web page to share drug safety information with health care professionals and patients.

People

DOJ asks for IT boost

The Bush administration wants a 20 percent increase in the Justice Department's tech budget.

Digital Government

OMB sets ID schedule

Officials laid out a timetable for complying with an executive order to issue federal workers identity cards that conform to a new standard.

Cybersecurity

Clashing over cybersecurity

Industry leaders and critics argue about cybersecurity regulation.

Cybersecurity

D+ for fed security

That's a slight improvement from 2003.

Digital Government

Trade group fears IT decline

The American Electronics Association warns that the decreasing focus on science and technology inside the United States will topple the country's competitive advantage.

People

ITAA: CIOs focus on PMA

Federal CIOs are digging deep into their agencies' pockets for IT consolidation projects, according to the latest annual CIO survey from the Information Technology Association of America.

Cybersecurity

Coviello: Embrace authentication

E-authentication must become commonplace before public agencies and companies will open up their networks for business transactions, said the CEO of RSA Security.

Digital Government

Microsoft gives away antispyware

Microsoft chairman Bill Gates says the new antispyware capabilities would be in the company's Internet Explorer 7.0 browser.

People

VA wants money for records

Under the VA's proposed fiscal 2006 budget, one of the biggest increases would go toward modernizing the electronic medical record system for veterans.

Cybersecurity

Defense picks two for PKI

Tumbleweed and CoreStreet will provide digital certificate validation for the Pentagon's public-key infrastructure.

People

Senate confirms NARA boss

Allen Weinstein replaces John Carlin as leader of the National Archives and Records Administration.

Digital Government

Marin IT speaks

A county in California is turning to voice services for managing e-mail, calendar and contact programs.