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The Internet Security Alliance is tackling this problem with help from government and industry.
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The Fed Cloud Blog told you earlier this week about a recent survey of federal IT professionals by InformationWeek. The survey showed 58 percent of respondents are either already using cloud computing or plan to be using it within the next 12 months. Federal News Radio wanted some more information on the survey, so we [...]
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The National Archives says its Civil War records are among its holdings that are most requested by the public. But until now, reviewing those documents required a trip to Washington and time reviewing the original papers. But the Archives has now put about 275,000 pages of records with the names of some three million potential draftees online. The Archives didn\'t have the money to digitize the records itself, so it partnered with the genealogy service Ancestry.com. After five years, the Archives will own the digital records, free and clear.
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The US Department of Agriculture says its stakeholders in the area of farming are a lot more tech savvy these days. So, its Natural Resources Conservation Service is focusing on developing mobile apps as a way to communicate and exchange data with them. The service thinks using apps instead of traditional paperwork for things like financial assistance and geospatial data exchanges could cut down processing time by 60 to 70 percent. And for farmers, they say, it\'ll mean they can spend more time in the field.
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The Department of Veterans Affairs has come up with a solution for modernizing its electronic health records system: Releasing the software to the open source community. VA says it\'s seeing a lot of innovation around electronic health records in the private sector. It thinks opening up the source code to its VistA software will be the easiest way to incorporate those technologies into VA, while also letting tech companies build on the platform it\'s already developed. VA uses VistA in 150 hospitals and 800 outpatient clinics.
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The Homeland Security Department plans to conduct a cyber network assessment survey for all levels of government.
April 21, 2011 -
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China has bumped the United States as the most feared nation in cyberspace.
April 21, 2011 -
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The Computing Research Association says enrollment is up by ten percent. The uptick follows a post-dot-com slump.
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The Federal Emergency Management Agency\'s existing information technology systems does not support disaster response activities effectively.
April 20, 2011 -
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The Government Printing Office has named Charles Riddle as the new chief information officer. Riddle brings a background in information technology and most recently worked at the Agriculture Department.
April 20, 2011 -
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The Federal Broadband Minute, provided by Hughes. \"Can your network save your agency money and still deliver bandwidth efficient service?\" The answer is yes and the savings are at the field office. Here\'s how: don\'t pay for high cost, dedicated access lines and MPLS ports for field office connectivity. Instead, call Hughes and get an affordable managed broadband service the benefits are huge. By replacing costly special access with affordable broadband, Hughes can save your agency up to $300 per month, per site multiply that by all your field offices and see the savings take off. Or…maybe you think your network should provide better service for the cost of what you already pay. Whether it\'s more savings or better quality, Hughes\' National Managed Broadband Service is the answer. And get a path diverse, back up solution for the same price as your primary network alone. Enable your government field office of the future from Hughes.
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Discovery\'s new home will be the Smithsonian Institution\'s branch in northern Virginia near Washington Dulles International Airport. The Smithsonian\'s Valerie Neal brings us up to speed.
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Even in a year in which the Stuxnet attack targeted critical infrastructure systems and attacks on grid operators rose dramatically, operators of critical infrastructure around the world took few steps to increase their cyber defenses, a new report found.
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George Washington University Professor Ernest Forman will explain the historical applications of decision science, and how it can be used today. April 19, 2011
April 19, 2011
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