Acquisition
Cloud standards, SEWP protests and NGA gamification
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Modernization
Many agencies to miss IPv6 deadline
Two presidents have pushed agencies to adopt the next-generation internet protocol, but four years later progress is still slow.
Modernization
NIST could move to Drupal
Another proprietary system could be destined for the dustbin as NIST considers a move to an open-source option.
Modernization
State's cloud doesn't measure up to NIST standards, IG finds
Audit finds weaknesses that keep the State Department's cloud-computing efforts from meeting NIST's guidelines.
Cybersecurity
NIST's new cyber center ready for public-private insight
A collaborative new effort will work to develop cybersecurity solutions and spur job creation.
Cybersecurity
Can new mobile government plans overcome old problems?
Federal agencies are rolling out a host of mobile strategies, but will it be enough to overcome decades-old challenges?
People
Top NIST workers to receive modest bonuses
Changes to personnel management system removes minimum bonus requirement.
Cybersecurity
Lynn McNulty: The grandfather of federal cybersecurity
Lynn McNulty emphasized security not as a constraint but as an e-government enabler.
Modernization
NIST guide aims to explain cloud in plain language
New document details risk management and other security issues related to cloud computing.
Cybersecurity
10 ways to secure the IT supply chain
NIST's streamlined guidance on risk management focuses on a set of key recommendations for ensuring the security and reliability of information and communications systems.
Cybersecurity
NIST tests accuracy in iris recognition for identification
Report quantifies accuracy, speed in iris-recognition algorithms.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity reboot: Two game-changing ideas
Some say making IT systems a moving target to hackers and centralizing cybersecurity policy will turn around current flawed approaches.
Modernization
Cloud computing's next step
Agencies and vendors need common definitions, performance metrics and security controls, say panelists at the FOSE 2012 conference.
People
NRC cybersecurity exec steps down
Pat Howard, the chief information security officer at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is retiring from government in April.
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity becomes high priority in budget request
With large investments proposed for DOD, DHS and NSF, budget puts cybersecurity front and center.
Modernization
NIST sets security approach for cloud computing
New guidelines from the National Institute of Standards and Technology offer recommendations agencies should consider when outsourcing data, applications and infrastructure to a public cloud environment.
Modernization
DOD to allow Android on classified networks
Forthcoming security standards are expected to allow the use of certain mobile devices on DOD's secure networks.
Digital Government
Obama reorganization could affect at least 12 agencies
White House consolidation plan is more expansive than the six agencies first identified.
Digital Government
NIST seeks data searchers
NIST seeks participants for annual data-mining conference.
Digital Government