Technology

  • While telemedicine may sound like science fiction, it is already a reality, Scholl said. And NIST is working on standards to make the overlaying technology work.

    November 02, 2011
  • Beth McGrath, the deputy chief performance officer at DoD, discussed why an interoperable electronic health record — or EHR — makes sense and how the project is coming along.

    November 02, 2011
  • Netuitive Vice President Daniel Heimlich joins host John Gilroy to talk about how his company can help you move to the cloud. November 1, 2011

    November 02, 2011
  • The agency issued draft of version 1 of the technology roadmap seeking to create cloud computing standards. The document details 10 cloud requirements that agencies need help on to adopt the emerging technology.

    November 01, 2011
  • A Congressional report points the finger at the Chinese military for a hack attack that happened between 2007 and 2008. The tampering originated from a ground station in Norway but had all the telltale tactics of a Chinese attack, the report says.

    November 01, 2011
  • The SANS Institute has awarded Los Alamos the 2011 U.S. National Cybersecurity Innovation Award for cloud computing security. The lab was the victim of a serious security breach in 1999.

    November 01, 2011
  • The department released a request for information for 11 email and collaboration services in the cloud. The RFI comes after Onix and Google dropped its protest of Interior\'s award to Softchoice and Microsoft for cloud email in October 2010.

    November 01, 2011
  • SafeGov.org aims to provide government with a greater understanding of the benefits of cloud computing.

    November 01, 2011
  • Col. Steve Zotti, the chief of staff for Marine Forces Cyber Command, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin and Amy Morris that cyberspace links together nearly all the other domains.

    November 01, 2011
  • The Stuxnet worm doesn\'t have a twin after all. Last month Symantec discovered a malware threat with such strong similarities to Stuxnet they called it the Son of Stuxnet.

    October 31, 2011
  • Unified Quest is an annual scenario-planning exercise for the Army to examine future force development.

    October 31, 2011
  • Ed DeSeve was the Special Advisor to the President for Recovery Implementation and is now the President of the Global Public Leadership Institute. He writes about the lessons learned in a new report by the IBM Center for the Business of Government.

    October 31, 2011
  • Chief Information Officers in the intelligence world are sketching out a technology infrastructure that could eventually serve the entire intelligence community. CIOs think they\'ll save money and improve interagency collaboration by building a single back-office and desktop architecture, moving most IT users to thin client machines, adopting cloud technologies that can interoperate with other clouds, and collapsing their networks and applications.

    October 31, 2011
  • The Department of Veterans Affairs is taking another step toward the deployment of tablet computers to its workforce. VA has sent a request for information to industry in the hopes of buying a mobile device management platform that will let it secure and manage tens of thousands of tablets across the enterprise. The plans call for a deployment of 10,000 tablets running Apple\'s iOS, Google\'s Android and Microsoft\'s Windows Mobile to start. They plan to eventually increase that to up to 100,000 tablets.

    October 31, 2011

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