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- Furlough Friday: Multiple agencies take advantage of holiday weekend
- New mobile tools gives agencies ‘giant innovation permission slip'
- VA chipping away at oldest disability claims in backlog
- Congress pressures agencies to speed up office consolidations
- Data breach puts DHS employees at risk of ID theft
- What's the latest on phased retirement?
- IRS replaces official in Tea Party controversy
- Commerce nominee sails through hearing
- Obama nominates Archuleta as next OPM director
- FedRAMP achieves another cloud security milestone
- Tangherlini to be nominated as permanent GSA chief
- House GOP panel moves on deep budget cuts
- OMB reworking financial system requirements
- Federal retirement funds temporarily tapped
- Meet the 2013 Service to America Medal finalists
- Thursday federal headlines - May 23, 2013
Army leadership applies pressure on data center consolidation
The Army's senior leaders want the service to beat its 2015 target to cut down the number of data centers it uses.
EXCLUSIVE: OMB has one-year focus with IT budget guidance
Agencies must report data center consolidation savings this week to OMB in preparation for 2013 budget request. The administration keeps the IT passback guidance short with a focus only on a few priorities over the next year.
Sunlight reviews open government directive
John Wonderlich of the Sunlight Foundation talks about his organization's review of the Open Government Directive. How well have agencies complied with mandate?
Prioritization software: What is it and how does it work?
Dan Saaty of Decision Lens joins host John Gilroy to discuss how prioritization software can help your agency.
December 13, 2011(Encore presentation December 27, 2011)
SearchUSA aims to be 'traffic cop' of online government content
Martha Dorris, the deputy associate administrator of GSA's Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, told In Depth with Francis Rose that Search.USA.gov doesn't compete with commercial search giants, such as Google. Instead, the site relies on the commercial search providers to get information seekers on government sites, where USASearch can act as a "traffic cop" directing them to the most high-value content.
Cyber test gives Army Corps faith in system resilience
The DoD Cyber Command poked and prodded the Army Corps' Los Angeles district's network during a recent Command Cyber Readiness Inspection. Army Corps of Engineers CIO Bob Kazimer said the analysis will give the rest of the agency lessons learned to improve cybersecurity across the Corps.
December 15, 2011
New FedRAMP standards first step to secure cloud computing
OMB sets a six-month deadline for initial capabilities to be ready. Along with the cloud security standards and process, the administration highlighted other accomplishments on the one-year anniversary of the 25-point IT Reform plan. The White House said a new draft shared services strategy will focus on commodity IT services.
NIST's new standard to bring HSPD-12 to smartphones
The goal of the revised FIPS-201-2 will detail at a high level how agencies can integrate secure smart cards with mobile devices. NIST is considering five options for making HSPD-12 cards work with tablets and smart phones.
Cyber Command conducts first cyber exercise
The joint cyberspace training exercise was held at the Air Force Red Flag Facility at Nellis Air Force Base in Nevada.
Library of Congress to receive entire Twitter archive
For the past year, the Library of Congress has been working with Twitter in a transfer of the company's entire electronic data set. Library's digital director sees this as a "unique record of our time."
Raytheon purchases Pikewerks to bolster its cybersecurity
Viewing cybersecurity as a growth area, Raytheon buys up its ninth cybersecurity firm since 2007.
Savannah River making up for lost IT time
Phil Cirrulli, the chief information officer for the managing and operations contractor for the site, is improving the national lab's infrastructure to support widespread wireless access. He also is shutting down legacy mainframe systems after implementing a new ERP system.
December 1, 2011
Government Big Data Solutions Award winners announced
USA Search, which hosts search services over more than 500 government sites, topped the list of award winners presented by CTOlabs.com.
Adobe more vulnerable to cyber attacks than Microsoft, report says
In June 2011 alone, Adobe software received more than 14,000 attacks, compared to only 1,500 attacks on Microsoft products.
Sharing medical information safely and securely
Host John Gilroy is joined by CNSI Senior Vice President Shaliesh Patel. They will discuss the challenges in helping citizens get more involved in their own healthcare.
November 29, 2011(Encore presentation December 20, 2011)
Top tips for managing teleworkers
Are you a federal manager? Then you need these 13 tips for managing the new crop of teleworkers in your office.
Protecting the mobile environment
Host John Gilroy is joined by AirPatrol Corporation CTO Tom Kellermann. They will discuss how to control data leakage from mobile devices.
November 22, 2011
GAO highlights 9 critical success factors for IT projects
A new report details how seven technology projects worth $5 billion found success. Auditors found program manager and user engagement is the one every initiative had in common.
AT&T says hackers tried to access mobile customer accounts
Telecommunications giant AT&T reported that hackers attempted to break into mobile customers' accounts.
Product safety agency launches two-way communication tools
Alex Filip, deputy director of the commission's communications office, joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris to discuss new tools the CPSC has developed and how they can be used to bolster communication with industry.
