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Congress focuses on cybersecurity...sort of
Considering the intense workload Congress faces as the year comes to a close, there has been a surprising amount of attention on cybersecurity. The threat of cybercrime and cyberterrorism are... Read more...
FCC looks to other countries for broadband ideas
Federal regulators are looking around the world at the successes other countries have had with broadband development. They're focusing on Sweden and more than 30 other countries from Australia to the... Read more...
Congress adds millions for e-gov
In a remarkable shift in gears, Congress has finally opened the floodgates to fund the e-government fund for 2010. The House version includes $33 million and the Senate version includes $35 million,... Read more...
Outsourced intel jobs move back to government
The world of the outside contractor handling intelligence community IT jobs and other work is about to change. The government is accelerating efforts to transfer thousands of contractor-performed... Read more...
VA IT may get a huge windfall
The Senate Appropriation Committee recently gave the heads up to the Department of Veterans Affairs for more than $3.3 billion for information technology in 2010. The money, still in the hopper,... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Not everyone wants the White House in charge of cybersecurity
While there is a growing chorus to put someone in charge--anyone really--of dealing with the government's cybersecurity defenses, there are critics who now say it should not be the White House. This... Read more...
E-taxes costs IRS workers their jobs
The government is front and center in developing e-government in many ways, and one of them is increasing the ease of filing your taxes online. More than 50 percent of taxpayers now use e-Taxes... Read more...
Government health IT gets a few more advisers
It takes a village to raise a child, a phrase Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton once used in her best-selling book. Now it will take two committees to advice the government on health... Read more...
Obama seeks $1.5 billion for swine flu, including tech
President Obama is taking a proactive stand in dealing with the exploding swine flu outbreak in the United States and around the world. He's seeking $1.5 billion from Congress in supplemental funds... Read more...
