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Three weeks ago, Melissa Hathaway announced plans to leave her job as the acting senior director for cybersecurity with the White House National Security Council. Her departure underscores the fact that President Obama has yet…
If you want some interesting reading, there are two new report out from the inspector general at the Department of Veterans Affairs. (How often do “IG report” and “interesting reading” end up in the same…
Can you think like a hacker? That’s the subject of this week’s Federal Security Spotlight, which airs tomorrow at 10 a.m. Host Tom Temin Tom talked to Robert Young, an associate professor specializing in information…
Cleaning off the desk and some of the stories mentioned on Federal News Radio 1500 AM’s Daily Debrief with Chris Dorobek and Amy Morris: * National Journal’s Tech Daily Dose: Former TV newsman to join…
The Federal Communications Commission, now under the leadership of one of the people I simply can’t wait to meet, Julius Genachowski, has launched a blog — and a Twitter feed. The blog, call Blogband and…
Dr. Ian Spielman pioneered a new area of research in government that’s helping scientists understand crucial, but currently intractable, mysteries of physics — like an explanation of something called high-temperature superconductivity.Spielman is a Physicist at…
Committee report says getting back to the Moon by 2020 probably not possible with current budget; report heading to President Obama for review.
Prof. Robert Young National Defense University August 20, 2009
One blogger gives his reasons for such an interesting post.
Dave McClure, formerly of the Government Accountability Office and most recently from Gartner, will head the General Services Administration’s Office of Citizen Services and Communications, which leads the government’s outreach to the public through Web…
We told you about this last week, but… CGI Federal made it officially official… The CGI Federal press release from last week: CGI Hires Former Chief Information Officer, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Molly O’Neill Fairfax,…
One of the challenges with cybersecurity is that the discussion is often about worst-case scenarios — a cyber-Pearl Harbor, for example. That often makes it difficult to put cybersecurity in context and assess the actual…
Many fundamentals are reiterated, while new threats are also identified.
The city of Chicago is out almost 1-million-dollars after poor record keeping allowed thousands of pills, vials and medical tools to spoil. The internal auditors from the Chicago Inspector General David Hoffman office said poor tracking left them unable to determine what happened to 92,000 doses of 18 vaccines. Staff at the warehouse \"kept no records whatsoever of the controlled substances,\" said the Inspector.
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