People
DOE lab proposes voluntary separation program to cut workforce
Up to 800 employees at Los Alamos National Laboratory could soon be offered voluntary buyouts.
Cybersecurity
GAO finds overlaps in IT investments within DOE and DOD
CIOs dispute some of the GAO's conclusions during a House hearing.
Modernization
Energy offers a website redesign cautionary tale
The Energy Department's recent web redesign resulted in documents going missing. The reason for the disappearance could affect other agencies.
Cybersecurity
Energy Department to establish new cyber center
Energy Department CIO highlights importance of partnerships in fighting cyber threats.
Cybersecurity
US power grid gets better cyber defenses thanks to new initiative
A new initiative between government and private sector aims to boost cybersecurity for the power grid and keep hackers at bay.
Digital Government
Analysis: Cybersecurity puzzle is a tough one to solve
Experts agree a multidimensional approach to cybersecurity is necessary, but what does that really mean?
Cybersecurity
Jeremy Thomas: A new way to secure classified systems
Thomas led a team that deployed a diskless architecture for the classified computing environment at Idaho National Laboratory.
Digital Government
Jay Huie: Here's how to pull together a plan
Huie spearheaded development of the Energy Department's IT Strategic Roadmap and played an instrumental role in getting input from IT leaders across the department.
Cybersecurity
Energy lab back online after cyberattack
Pacific Northwest lab restores public websites and Internet access nearly two weeks after a hack exploited a zero-day vulnerability.
Cybersecurity
Energy labs recovering from cyberattacks
Labs knocked offline are recovering, investigating the cyberattacks that hit them over the weekend.
Cybersecurity
Cyberattack hits Energy lab
The Pacific Northwest National Laboratory has shut down its website and Internet access as a result of an attack that shows some similarities to one that hit Oak Ridge National Laboratory in April.
Cybersecurity
Attacks take Energy labs offline
The Pacific Northwest National Lab and the Thomas Jefferson Laboratory National Accelerator Facility shut down outside Internet access after a cyberattack.
Digital Government
Los Alamos lab to restart supercomputers
After a wildfire forced the lab's closure, officials are preparing to restart the Cray and IBM supercomputers used for weapons research.
Digital Government
The best of the federal blogosphere
LaHood peddles pedaling to work; high gas prices don't deter drivers; OSTI's Greek philosophy; space shuttle era draws to a close.
Acquisition
GAO: Agencies question usefulness of contract inventories
Some agency officials fear their in-depth inventories of service contracts will turn out to be useful to no one due to funding, manpower shortages.
People
DOE announces $130M from its Advanced Research Projects Agency
Breakthroughs in biofuels, rare earth alternatives and solar power electronics are just some of the areas DOE will focus on.
People
Energy's mission for cutting-edge communications
The Energy Department's Cammie Croft talks about the challenges of being a social media advocate in the federal government and the importance of staying on the front lines of new technology.
People
Blog fail! 3 blogs that just don't cut it.
Here are a handful of federal blogs that aren't winners, for one reason or another.
Digital Government