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- Contractors with security clearances lack path to report problems
- Proposed commission would give teeth to cost-saving ideas but some lawmakers skeptical
- Feds outside the Beltway react to furloughs
- Contracting executives guilty of 8(a) program fraud
- EPA CIO Jackson returning to private sector
- Navy strikes enterprise licensing deal with Oracle
- 29-year-old NASA engineer going where no one has gone before
- USPS reaches energy reduction goal ahead of schedule
- NOAA meteorologist helps save lives one storm at a time
- ICE Director John Morton stepping down
- NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women
- House passes sweeping $638 billion defense bill
- NIH tops list of best companies for baby boomers
- Latest postal reform proposal OKs 5-day delivery
- IRS official contradicts claims about reviews
- House presses VA for more details after cyber attacks
- DoD maintains BRAC fight, despite opposition
GAO: DoD can better share biometric info with other agencies
Davi D'Agostino, Director of Defense Capabilities and Management Issues at GAO, discusses the report's findings.
Technology, collaboration advance DoD's mission
Defense intelligence community members and industry peers have come together for knowledge sharing, training and discussion of current and future information technology (IT) challenges and requirements. We get details from Booz Allen's Mike McConnell, the former Director of National Intelligence.
Info sharing more sophisticated since 9-11
Dale Meyerrose, former Chief Information Officer at the Office of the Director of National Intelligence. He discusses what's changed from 2001 to 2011.
Information sharing 'instrumental' in bin Laden killing
Information sharing has come a long way since Sept. 11, 2001. This interagency collaboration will be key to military successes, especially as the Defense Department prepares for massive spending cuts.
IT sharing solutions tackled at FOSE Conference
Information sharing in the age of WikiLeaks is one of the topics on tap at the annual FOSE Conference.
Agencies still sharing after WikiLeaks
Fears that the leak of thousands of State Department memos to the website WikiLeaks would reverse progress on interagency sharing of national security information have not materialized, officials testified Thursday. Agencies have responded by recognizing the need to protect data rather than by hoarding it, they said.
DoD wants cyber partnership, not to spy
Gen. Keith Alexander, commander of the military's new Cyber Command and the director of the NSA, said DoD can help protect private networks from cyber attack - especially critical infrastructure - without infringing on civil liberties. He said civilian agencies and private network operators could leverage NSA's capabilities without having the spy agency be in charge of security.
Fusion Centers facing growing pains
One DHS official said efforts to encourage collaboration between federal and local law enforcement agencies are off to a good start. But he said the full potential of fusion centers isn't being realized yet.
DoD analysis centers make info sharing easier
Christopher Zember, deputy director of the centers, explains how analysts sift through all the data.
U.S. intelligence agencies 'sharing too much'
Intelligence agencies may be ordered to limit the information they share.
VA struggles to balance cloud apps, security
Assistant secretary Baker said he can't let doctors store veterans' data on unsecured systems in the cloud. But Baker said he wants to figure out how to solve this problem because the ability to access data anywhere, anytime is necessary. VA shutdown facilities usage of common commercial cloud applications.
Gen. Cartwright on Wikileaks, Don't Ask Don't Tell, and DoD budget
The nation's No. 2 military officer strongly endorsed the warfighting value of information-sharing.
How to share info in the age of WikiLeaks
Thomas McNamara, former program manager for Information Sharing Environment joined Chris Dorobek on The Dorobek Insider.
OMB: improve geospatial data collection, sharing
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra wants agencies to take a portfolio approach so geospatial data is better coordinated governmentwide. The administration releases a supplement to Circular A-16 making geospatial data a capital asset.
Defense gives warfighters ways to share info
The Defense Information Systems Agency's Net-Centric Enterprise Services (NCES) Program achieved its final acquisition milestone on Sept. 29
DoD launches information-sharing program
The Net-Centric Enterprise Services Program, a project of the Defense Information Systems Agency, allows secure information sharing between soldiers in the field, as well as between systems, DoD reports.
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National security information sharing gets a boost
Learn more about an executive order to establish guidelines for information sharing
Paul: Information Sharing Environment expanding
Changes in technology, culture and conditions necessitate not only an update, but growth for the three-year old office.
