Cybersecurity
Cyber Costs Climb
Push to secure data and systems creates multibillion-dollar market for contractors.
Cybersecurity
Scientists view cybersecurity as an intimidating conundrum
Former National Science Foundation executive says technical issues and the enormity of the task make securing the Internet and networks 'the most difficult challenge' for researchers.
Digital Government
46 Groups Recommend Blue Button
As the Obama administration showers doctors and hospitals with stimulus money, it should tell the takers to embed an icon on their subsidized e-health records that allows patients to download their records, according to a new paper backed by 46 consumer, provider, corporate, insurance and privacy groups.
Digital Government
NASA program to launch space shuttle workers into new jobs
A competition for $35 million in grants would fund initiatives to help 9,000 contractors facing unemployment to find work in aviation and aerospace, clean technology, homeland security, IT and life sciences.
Digital Government
FDA unveils performance management site
Online system will allow public to monitor agency's activities and drug approval process.
Digital Government
Contractors want to review troubled technology projects with OMB
Vendors say administration officials should allow them to weigh in on fixing the management of high-risk initiatives and should keep companies abreast of development interruptions.
Digital Government
Government ethics office reorganizing site to make policies easier to digest
Too many pages and documents confuse federal employees who want to demystify the rules of professional conduct.
Digital Government
Transportation to unveil database standards to improve highway safety
Officials are creating standard definitions for data fields and combining some operational activities.
Modernization
Agencies bust myth of year-end buying sprees
Once thought of as spendthrifts when September came, some officials now align their information technology purchases with executives' top initiatives and mission-critical services.
Modernization
White House crackdown on IT might be a moneymaker for vendors
Suppliers of easy-to-configure software say they could receive more business when departments recompete canceled projects, or when they buy smaller systems.
Ideas
State: Dial "FLOOD" for Pakistan
State Department officials, following the United Nations lead, now are accepting donations via text message to help support recovery and reconstruction in Pakistan where floods have displaced about 20 million people and spread deadly waterborne diseases.
Modernization
Social Security expects to award mega-IT contract by October
The $2 billion pact continues a services agreement, but will expand to include health information technology work that will allow the agency to exchange more electronic medical data.
Digital Government
Obama sends 30 technology projects back to the drawing board
Initiatives will be dropped if agencies can't get them back on track.
Digital Government
Senators ask Marshals Service why it stores images of full-body scans
Lawmakers say the practice of retaining the images taken during screening procedures at a federal courthouse in Florida could compromise individuals' privacy.
Digital Government
House lawmakers are under pressure to approve IT oversight bill
Possibility the measure could hinder ongoing projects might hurt its chances of passing under an expedited process that requires a two-thirds majority.
Modernization
IT chief could shift funds for agencies' internal tech projects
Vivek Kundra has met with federal CIOs during the past month to discuss troubled programs.
Ideas
Kundra Former Workers Go to Jail
Two former employees of federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, back when he served as the District of Columbia's chief technology officer, have been sentenced to more than year-long prison terms for participating in a kickback scheme, according to the <em>New York Times</em>.
Cybersecurity
NASA sets its sights on off-loading IT functions and boosting security
Space agency turns to cloud computing for cost and energy efficiency while meeting open government goals.
Ideas