Technology

  • Lockheed has officially opened a new cyber lab devoted to cyber security research, and will work closely with CMU faculty.

    May 11, 2011
  • NavigationArts\' Mobile Practice Director Doug Brashear joins host John Gilroy to talk about how the government should handle mobile communication. May 10, 2011(Encore presentation September 6, 2011)

    May 10, 2011
  • The government does not make the grade when it comes to protecting users from malicious and harmful websites.

    May 10, 2011
  • The Fed Cloud Blog told you it was coming. Now, the General Services Administration has officially released its request for quotation for e-mail, office automation and electronic records management cloud services. Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller reports the cloud contract has a ceiling of $2.5 billion over five years. The important dates to remember? Vendors [...]

    May 10, 2011
  • Clandestine operations in cyberspace included in 2012 Defense Authorization bill.

    May 10, 2011
  • In a column for Federal News Radio, Ft. Meade Commander Col. Dan Thomas says, \"By this fall, the official worker population of Fort Meade will have grown to more than 48,000. This is 13,000 more personnel than we had three years ago - you do the math: if BRAC growth is 5,400, who are all these other people?\"

    May 10, 2011
  • Moving into a new building has allowed DISA to revamp its technology infrastructure, including consolidating circuits, servers and paper records. The Joint Task Force, National Capital Region Medical is building a new network to carry health data and applications for three services to share. Both organizations say without BRAC, these changes would have taken longer to happen.

    May 10, 2011
  • Findings have been released for the 2011 (ISC)² Global Information Security Workforce Study.

    May 10, 2011
  • Some apps developed through Washington, D.C.\'s Apps for Democracy contest are discontinued because of lack of data. Could the same happen to apps based on federal data due to cuts to the e-government fund?

    May 10, 2011
  • The blanket purchase agreement could be worth $2.5 billion over five years. GSA wants vendors to bid on email-as-a-service, office automation and records management.

    May 10, 2011
  • Have you heard of OpenStack? It’s an open source cloud computing project from NASA and a group of tech companies. According to the OpenStack website, “All of the code for OpenStack is freely available under the Apache 2.0 license. Anyone can run it, build on it, or submit changes back to the project. We strongly [...]

    May 09, 2011
  • \"Security\" is a word that gets woven in to nearly everything your agency does, so understanding what your security people are worried about is good information to have.

    May 09, 2011
  • The Federal Broadband Minute, provided by Hughes. Is your network ready to perform during a disaster? Unless your primary network is backed-up by a path diverse solution, the answer is \"no.\" Hughes is here to help. Leveraging our Networx partnerships, our GSA Schedule, and the power of our managed services capabilities, Hughes offers what no other telecom provider can an affordable national managed broadband service, with both primary and back up capabilities. Hughes National Managed Broadband Service brings the convergence of voice, video, and data to your government network with bandwidth capacity tailored to fit your needs. With Hughes\', agencies can securely meet network resiliency requirements for Continuity of Operations planning AND provide network support for teleworkers who may be called to respond remotely. Enable your government field office of the future today from Hughes.

    May 09, 2011
  • This year, 34 federal employees were named finalists in eight categories for their public service work.

    May 09, 2011

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