Cyber warfare will likely be a battlefield weapon in future conflicts, William J. Lynn III, deputy defense secretary, said at the Council on Foreign Relations last week. “Any major future conflict will almost certainly include elements of cyber warfare,” he said. “And the threat posed by cyber warfare extends far beyond military operations – it [...]

Small businesses have borne the brunt of the recession, and the Department of Homeland Security hopes they won’t bear the worst in the event of a national disaster. DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the completion of a key step in developing contingency plans for small businesses in the wake of a terrorist attack or other [...]

More federal workers could be phoning it in – in a good way, as the Senate approved new teleworking legislation Sept. 30. The bill, which is similar to one passed by the House of Representatives in July, makes all federal workers eligible to telecommute and stipulates that teleworking be part of an agency’s contingency plans [...]

A White House report rating the stimulus finds it is making headway within the time frame provided and without busting the budget, The Washington Post reported. About 70 percent of the Recovery Act’s $787 billion price tag had been spent by the end of last month, “which met a White House goal of quickly pumping [...]

The Obama administration’s federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has set a timeline for adopting Internet Protocol version 6 for use on public servers by the end of 2012. In a Sept. 28 memo, Kundra laid out “specific steps for agencies to expedite the operational deployment and use of IPv6.” The servers and services affected [...]