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
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.
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