Modernization
Agencies' faulty payments make OMB site hit list
OMB has started a Web site, PaymentAccuracy.gov, to highlight work to reduce improper payments made by agencies.
Modernization
White House releases first intellectual property strategy
The White House has launched its first interagency strategy for fighting pirated software and other intellectual property
Digital Government
The urgency behind solving the cyber identity problem
White House Cyber Coordinator Howard Schmidt explains what's behind the Obama administration's push to improve how people and systems are identified in cyberspace.
Modernization
Federal IT workers dubious of data-center consolidation plan
While federal IT stakeholders agree that consolidating government data centers is a good idea, some doubt if or when it will happen, while others have concerns about security and their jobs.
Cybersecurity
White House plans strategy for better cyber authentication
White House Cyber Coordinator Howard Schmidt says the Obama administration will release a draft of its national strategy to improve the identification of people and systems in cyberspace.
Digital Government
Billions expected for cybersecurity research
The deputy director of national intelligence for acquisition and technology told a recent cybersecurity connference that her office and the White House Office of Science and Technology plan a multibillion dollar research project on cybersecurity.
Digital Government
A cyber bill worth enacting
The long-awaited Senate cybersecurity bill, introduced by Sens. Joe Lieberman, Susan Collins and Thomas Carper, succeeds in providing a greater good in defending against cyberattacks and deserves to be enacted.
People
No pulse, no pay: How the 'Do Not Pay' list will work
Vice President Joe Biden announced today that a governmentwide Do Not Pay List is being created to track debarred contractors, deceased individuals and others ineligible for federal payments.
Modernization
White House advisers soliciting ideas for 'golden triangle' technologies
The President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology is the latest to create an open government Web platform to discuss what they are calling the "golden triangle" of new technologies.
Digital Government
White House plans to get more from agency IT spending
Guidance for IT spending the fiscal 2012 budget emphasizes accountability, performance and security, federal CIO Vivek Kundra tells a Washington audience.
Modernization
Obama orders sales of excess data centers
Agencies should immediately cap the number of data centers and reduce the count by 2015, the president says.
Digital Government
Future of cybersecurity lost in legislative limbo
More than 40 bills, resolutions and amendments dealing with cybersecurity are pending in the House and Senate. Does anyone in Congress care?
Cybersecurity
White House names new chief of terrorism-related info sharing environment
The Obama administration has named a new leader for an office tasked with improving how agencies share terrorism-related information.
People
OMB tells agencies to standardize electronic regulatory dockets
The White House tells agencies to increase transparency in their electronic regulatory dockets.
Digital Government
FISMA reform rides on defense spending's coattails
A defense authorization bill amendment seeks to improve federal cybersecurity by increasing oversight, improving standards and making compliance and security more attainable.
Digital Government
Agencies to measure effects of science spending
The White House and two agencies will start collecting data on federal spending's effects on science.
Digital Government
National Security Strategy: Digital infrastructure protection a 'national security priority'
The Obama administration today released a national security strategy that described the United States' digital infrastructure as a "strategic national asset" that must be protected.
Digital Government
Happy birthday, Mr. Data.gov
On its first anniversary, Data.gov debuts a redesign that makes the 250,000 government data sets easier to use.
Digital Government
Research and development game-changers for cybersecurity
The Obama administration is trying to take cybersecurity to the next level with an R&D program aimed at producing 'game-changing' technologies.
Digital Government