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A four year, $63.6 billion Federal Aviation Administration authorization bill agreed to by a conference committee of House and Senate lawmakers would require creation of a Chief NextGen Officer. The Read more...

> HASC Chairman: Kill BRAC. Article (DoD Buzz)> $638M contract to deliver Navy ships with common computing network. Article (NextGov)> White House pushes Congress to fast track Read more...

Cybersecurity legislation now moving through the House would increase the Homeland Security Department's authority to coordinate cybersecurity activities across government, identify risks and Read more...

Identity management in the European Union must be based on the collection of biometric information from individuals, said Frank Paul, head of unit for large scale IT systems and biometrics within the Read more...

Federal efforts to build an online identity ecosystem moved forward Feb. 1 with a National Institute of Standards and Technology call for proposals for five to eight pilot projects lasting up to 2 Read more...

Retirement benefits processing at the Office of Personnel Management will remain paper-and-pencil bound "for the foreseeable future," OPM Director John Berry Feb. 1 while testifying before a Senate Read more...

> Gingrich: 'Grandiose' space plans are possible. Article (Florida Today)> NATO networks vulnerable to cyber attack. Article (Danger Room)> Rockefeller pushes for scaled-down rollout of new Read more...

In unclassified testimony Jan. 31, top U.S. intelligence official James Clapper revealed little new but sounded alarm bells against an increasingly aggressive Iran and the cyber-intelligence Read more...

Seventy one percent of federal IT workers say pressure to rapidly adopt cloud-computing technology creates security risks for their organizations, according to a survey from Ponemon Institute, Read more...

A Jan. 17 White House memo on the importance of private sector involvement in standards-setting sends an important message to federal agencies and foreign governments, said Mary Saunders, director of Read more...

In 3 to 4 weeks, Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) plans to introduce cybersecurity legislation, but it won't truly fix anything--at most legislation will "raise the price of admission for Read more...

Even by federal internal measures, information sharing remains a challenge, said Karen Evans, who occupied the position of federal chief information officer during most of the George W. Bush Read more...

> NASA launches multi-player Facebook game "Space Race Blastoff." Article (TheNextWeb) > Aneesh Chopra to leave federal CTO post. Statement (White House)> Obama to "hangout" on Google+ on Read more...

In the 2 years since the National Archives and Records Administration created the National Declassification Center, 70 percent of its document backlog was assessed, but review efforts could slow or Read more...

Defense spending on cyber capabilities won't be subject to cuts as the Pentagon attempts to reduce its budget by $487 billion over the next decade, Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told reporters Read more...