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At the recent Black Hat cyber conference, a proof-of-concept demonstration exposed many security holes in Mac\'s OS 10.
On today\'s Federal Drive: USPS announced it\'s considering massive job cuts, Veterans Affairs large-scale IT contract under siege from bid protests and expanded benefits to the post-9/11 GI Bill.
Vivek Kundra ends his tenure as the federal chief information officer Aug. 12. He was the driving force behind moving agencies to cloud computing, consolidating data centers and laying down the foundation to reform information technology. But Kundra\'s biggest impact may be less about specific technologies, but reminding the government that time and process are not major barriers. August 11, 2011
The Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency launched the faster ever airplane in California today. The agency tracked the flight\'s progress via Twitter, rather than webcasting the launch.
It turns out a hack into law enforcement agencies did expose personal information. The hacker group that claimed responsibility is also thought to be behind a hack into government contractor Booz Allen earlier this year.
The GAO found the State Department had improved real-time awareness of cyber vulnerabilites, however it still has some areas to cover, according to the watchdog agency\'s latest report.
Judy Marks, the head of Siemens\' U.S. federal business unit, joined the Federal Drive to discuss her firm\'s partnership with Boeing to manage the Defense Department\'s micro-grid.
The administration is asking for input to make government more transparent. The ideas it collects could go into an action plan that the administration will present next month at the launch of the international Open Government Partnership at the United Nations.
The Navy\'s cyber command will welcome a new leader as it approaches its one-year anniversary since declaring full operational capability.
The submissions should allow a user to invite three Facebook friends to become \"lifelines,\" who will act as support during an emergency.
The Coast Guard will being replacing its aging inventory of smartphones with iPhones and Android-based devices. In doing so, the Coast Guard becomes the first military service to adopt the new generation of mobile devices.
The Department of Homeland Security\'s seventh annual conference on cybersecurity is underway. Lee Rock, the acting director of US-CERT is slated to speak.
Joe Sabel, the portfolio manager in the Green Management Program Service at the Veterans Affairs Department, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the Energy Conference conference, which wraps up today.
The Army will begin lifting its finger off of the pause button for enterprise email within the next few days, the service\'s chief information officer said.
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