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House committee approves pro-business cyber bill

Tags: Congress , House , cybersecurity , CISPA , House Intelligence Committee

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Recovery Board opens next frontier in financial accountability

Pundits may question whether Congress should have approved $804 billion in stimulus money via the Recovery Act of 2009. But many in government have come to realize that the independent agency charged with overseeing how that money was spent -- the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board -- has a lot to teach financial managers about ensuring transparency and rooting out waste in government spending.

Tags: Recovery Act , RAT Board , Earl Devaney , Kathleen Tighe , Danny Werfel , Michael Wood , transparency , financial accountability , financial management , Rise of the Money People , Michael OConnell , OMB , oversight

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From tedious log management to large dynamic systems management

Bill Cull, vice president Public Sector for Splunk, joins host John Gilroy to talk about how his company can help you monitor and manage your IT systems.
April 9, 2013

Tags: log management , dynamic systems management , Security Events Incident Managment Services , Splunk , analytics , Bill Cull , Oracle , big data , hadoop , cloud computing , Splunk Live! , John Gilroy , Federal Tech Talk

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Navy mandates partial migration to commercial cloud

A new memo from Navy Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen tells the Navy and Marine Corps to move public-facing data to commercial cloud service providers.

Tags: DoD , Navy , Marine Corps , cloud computing , Terry Halvorsen , Jared Serbu

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Army uses dashboard technology to combat suicides

System aggregates data from various Army components to help commanders detect risk factors for suicide.

Tags: DoD , Army , Suicide , Susan Lawrence , Jared Serbu

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Smaller IT budget doesn't stop FDIC from modernizing

Russ Pittman, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation's chief information officer and director of the Division of IT, said he asked for a technology budget that is eight percent less in 2013 because the agency completed several large scale projects.
April 4, 2013

Tags: FDIC , Russ Pittman , agile development , budget , Ask the CIO , Jason Miller

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NIST, industry begin journey to develop cyber framework

Collaboration and a better way to measure risk emerge as the two main factors in developing a more integrated approach to protecting critical infrastructure systems and networks. At the first of four workshops, NIST got the lowdown from owners and operators as well as information sharing centers on what's working and what needs to be at the forefront as the framework is developed.

Tags: cybersecurity , NIST , Pat Gallagher , information sharing , executive order , industry , Tim Roxey , NERC , Jason Miller

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Cyber workforce avoiding retirement wave -- for now

The federal cyber workforce is not facing an immediate retirement wave, but it will if agencies don't increase the number of younger workers.

Tags: cybersecurity , workforce , CIO Council , Jason Miller

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Former VA CIO Baker joins Agilex

Roger Baker becomes the company's chief strategy officer to help it understand the market and ensure it's meeting agency customer expectations.

Tags: industry , people , VA , Roger Baker , Agilex , program management , Jason Miller

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Healthcare IT and interoperability

Doctor Doug Fridsma, chief science officer for HHS's Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology, will discuss how interoperability will make it easier to share health information.
April 2, 2013

Tags: Healthcare IT , interoperability , electronic health records , enterprise systems , HHS , Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT , information sharing , records management , Blue Button initiative , mobile devices , health information exchange , John Gilroy , Federal Tech Talk , Doug Fridsma

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