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Reps. Mike Rogers (R-Mich.) and Dutch Ruppersberger (D-Md.) introduced legislation to make sharing of classified cyber threat information easier between the government and the private sector. The bill builds on DoD's Defense Industrial Base pilot to share data about vulnerabilities. DoD plans to expand the DIB pilot to more than 200 companies in the coming year.
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Appian Chief Technology Officer Mike Beckley talks about the business strategies that have helped his company grow. April 10, 2012
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The National Institute of Standards and Technology has asked for comments about its proposed revisions to the Digital Signatures Standard.
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Increasingly, agencies are using a tool at their disposal. Instead of issuing RFP's, they're issuing challenges. And according to a new report from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, agencies that have jumped on the challenge bandwagon have begun to "reap the rewards of well-designed prizes integrated into a broader innovation strategy."
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The Department of Veterans Affairs and DoD are planning on rolling out some of the early work they've done on a joint health records system. V-A says a preliminary version of the integrated electronic health record will go online by next year at hospitals in Hampton Roads, Virginia and San Antonio, Texas. The system will include the joint graphical user interface the two departments have already built. VA and DoD have been working to integrate their records to provide better care to servicemembers as they transition out of the military and into V-A care.
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Federal agencies are committing a big chunk of money in hopes of making progress on the "big data" problem. Six federal agencies led by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health will commit up to 200 million dollars in a joint procurement aimed at coming up with better ways of managing ever growing, ever more complex data sets, and making all that information more useful. And several agencies are planning other big data procurements of their own, on top of the 200 million.
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A new agreement, called the U.S.-Brazil Defense Cooperation Dialogue, is aimed at bringing both countries closer military-wise.
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Tech America and USTelecom said the Anonymous hacker group targeted their Internet sites in denial-of-service attacks.
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Forty-five percent of the IT executives polled in for the 2012-2013 Telework/Mobile IT Almanac expected to see an increase in part-time mobile workers over the next two years and 59 percent anticipated more regular teleworkers.
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Host Mark Amtower talks about the big contracting issues with Northrup Grumman's Ed Swallow and Dan Mintz from PowerTek Corporation. April 9, 2012(Encore presentation April 23, 2012)
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The energy department announced a new "challenge" for software developers: Create new applications allowing people to download data detailing how — and how much — they use energy. The Apps for Energy contest, which offers $100,000 in prizes to winning developers, is part of the Green Button Initiative.
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Hackers from the group Anonymous claim to have broken into Chinese government computers, with the ultimate objective to take down the country's firewall.
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Every agency issued updated open government plans, updating progress and detailing new initiatives for the next two years. NASA will change the way it designs and builds its websites. SSA will focus on health IT and putting services online.
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Microsoft has found several critical security risks in its Office and Internet programs that may leave people open to hackers this tax season. The biggest problem is in Internet Explorer software, because every single version of the program is at risk, the company said.
April 09, 2012
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