NASA

• NASA picks SAIC for second I3P award

  By Jason Miller Executive Editor Federal News Radio SAIC won its second contract under NASA’s multi-billion dollar Information Technology Infrastructure Integration Program (I3P). The space agency announced today that it awarded SAIC a contract to…

  Technology

  March 28, 2011
• NASA robotics inspiring the next gen of feds

  The \"leaders, innovators, and collaborators of the future\" are going head to head in a robotics competition. FIRST DC\'s Herb Muktarian explains why and how.

  Federal Drive

  March 28, 2011
• Federal jobs among most desirable

  While Google ranks as their ideal employer, many college students say they are interested in working for federal agencies.

  All News

  March 21, 2011
• Agencies still struggling to encrypt mobile devices

  Despite a 2006 mandate to secure mobile devices and implement two-factor authentication, only just over half of federal agencies have managed to do so. OMB submits its annual FISMA report to Congress detailing the steps the government has taken to improve cybersecurity, including spending $12 billion on cybersecurity last year.

  Budget

  March 21, 2011
• GWAC Summit: Meeting of the Minds

  GWACs explained by GSA\'s Michael O\'Neill, NIH\'s Mary B. Armstead, and NASA\'s Joanne Woytek

  Federal Drive

  March 18, 2011
• NASA cloud pioneer leaves agency

  Chris Kemp, NASA’s chief technology officer for IT, is leaving the agency. Kemp announced his resignation on his agency blog saying, “As budgets kept getting cut and continuing resolutions from Congress continued to make funding unavailable, I saw my vision for the future slowly slip further from my grasp.” Kemp was one of the pioneers [...]

  Technology

  March 17, 2011
• NASA CTO Chris Kemp steps down

  Chris Kemp made the announcement about his resignation on his blog.

  Budget

  March 15, 2011
• Many agencies are not under a hiring freeze

  Federal News Radio surveyed 10 agencies to find out how they are preparing for a shutdown, and how operating under a continuing resolution is affecting their operations.

  Budget

  March 03, 2011
• NASA hacker enters plea

  A Texas man who admitted hacking into the computer systems of a Minnesota company and NASA\'s Goddard Space Flight Center in Maryland pleaded guilty Wednesday to one count of wire fraud.

  Federal Drive

  February 24, 2011
• This week in the cloud

  It was a big week for cloud computing on Federal News Radio – from NASA’s Nebula cloud to more information on OMB’s Cloud Computing Strategy. Plus, we learned what budget cuts might mean for the cloud… NASA demos open source cloud computing Hear how NASA is pairing its Nebula platform with open source cloud initiatives [...]

  Technology

  February 22, 2011
• NASA demos open source cloud computing

  The agency\'s Nebula platform is just one possibility in the process of incorporating public cloud initiatives across the board.

  Technology

  February 18, 2011
• NASA helps partners to meet a “Sputnik moment”

  NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver has been on the road to meet with leaders of commercial space companies. She joins us with details of what she found.

  Federal Drive

  February 14, 2011
• NASA to change EVM requirements

  The proposed rule change would make life a little easier for some contractors.

  Management

  February 10, 2011
• NASA searching for locations of lost ‘space trees’

  NASA is trying to find space voyagers that are lost here on earth.

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  February 10, 2011