"We suspect shifting from a last-in model will likely encounter some resistance for fear that an address will be missed," auditors say.

Despite an ongoing and concerted effort to make the Homeland Security Department more cohesive, the DHS chief information officer is only viewing IT budget documents once they're submitted by components.

The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, or FedRAMP, on May 14 named nine third-party assessment organizations, or 3PAOs, that will assess and test cloud computing vendors' security controls.

The traffic scanning program, said Eric Rosenbach, deputy assistant secretary of defense for cyber policy has been underway for a year with "a few dozen" companies participating in it.

Richard Spires, chief information officer of the Homeland Security Department, spoke May 11 during an event put on by AFECA-NOVA in Tysons Corner, Va. Click below on the media player to listen to his...

A March 30 inspector general audit on server virtualization at the Internal Revenue Service is the rare report where the main complaint is that the agency hasn't more aggressively expanded a successful project.

The 5 year, $4.5 billion solcitation for land-based network operations and management calls for up to 134,000 thin client machines.NGEN will replace the Continuity-Of-Service Contract, the federal government's largest network management program.

Mueller said Internet-based and other technology firms "are very wealthy…they can afford to do it." "It" being implementation of means to tap electronic exchanges.

The information sharing effort studies by Rand involved European telecommunication firms operating under a model whereby government involvement was limited to acting as a neutral third party provider of an information sharing platform. Essentially, he said, the public sector provided a meeting room but little more.