In May, the Obama administration will blow the dust off an online relic with the re-launch of the Thrift Savings Plan (TSP) website. The site hadn’t been significantly updated or modernized since hitting the web in 1997.  The new page will seek to be more user-friendly, a tag-along to Obama’s goal of making the federal [...]

Karen Scarfone is a computer scientist and project manager for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), which is part of the U.S. Department of Commerce. Her role is to oversee the development of system and network-security publications for federal civilian agencies and the public. Scarfone also conducts  security research and has written numerous [...]

Janice Nall is director of the division of e-health marketing at the National Center for Health Marketing, where she leads the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s communication technology efforts. She is responsible for managing Web portals and other e-health and new-media initiatives. Nall is the former manager of the Usability Solutions Group at the [...]

An important piece of President Obama’s energy plan is moving forward with the announcement from the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) of an initial list of standards, a preliminary cyber security strategy, and other parts of a framework to support transforming America’s aging electric power system into an interoperable “Smart Grid.” [...]

Tom Clark is the Coast Guard’s network architect and senior network engineer who constructed the agency’s IT architecture so it could transition to OneNet–the Homeland Security Department’s common IP network. Clark also identified a problem with the agency’s antivirus update servers and implemented a strategy to permanently remedy the issue.

Emily Fort, project lead for the Office of Management and Budgets MAX federal program, delivered an eSeminar on the Federal Computer Week website, presenting on the growing initiative’s design and increasing scope. Fort described the “Common Solutions” of the “Budget Formulation & Execution Line of Business” that would help streamline the process in the future.  [...]

David Ausefski is the associate director of shared services at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s Information Technology Services Office. He was involved in enforcing the Federal Desktop Core Configuration, which entailed setting security controls on more than 23,000 computers, including those essential to CDC scientific labs. He also implemented agency laptop encryption and [...]

Barbara Hoffman has served as the Department of the Navy’s principal deputy chief information officer since Dec. 6, 2009. Her duties include overseeing, managing and providing strategic guidance for everyday information management and IT activities of the DON CIO staff. She also manages all DON CIO functional teams, including enterprise architecture, emerging technology, and cybersecurity. [...]

Kenneth Allen joined the American Council for Technology & Industry Advisory Council in 2005 as its executive director. Before coming to ACT – IAC, he served as executive director of the Partnership for Public Warning (PPW) and CEO of the National Newspaper Association (NNA). Prior to NNA, he spent 10 years with the Information Industry [...]

James Ryan is the deputy disaster manager at Small Business Administration and was named in 2009 as a top federal IT professional by Federal Computer Week magazine. In his current position, Ryan has helped develop Disaster Electronic Loan Application, an online loan application that allows people affected by a disaster to securely apply for loans. [...]