About 8,000 federal workers scattered throughout the country, will — in the near future — wake up, put the coffee on, drive to work and not find a copy of that old doorstopper, also known as The Federal Register, waiting for them. That’s because, in an effort to cut costs, the White House is ending [...]

The Obama administration is taking criticism of its cloud-computing security requirements to heart and may considering making changes, according to a report on Nextgov. The Federal Risk and Authorization and Management Program, known as FedRAMP, is designed to create security standards for the federal government’s use of the cloud; the feds would like to deploy [...]

The Department of Homeland Security is in the home stretch of deploying a new threat detection cybersecurity tool — Einstein, version two — across federal networks, and the agency is already hard at work designing an even more advanced version, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said last week. In a speech at George Washington University’s Homeland [...]

At an off-the-record meeting, officials from the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management sat down with IT experts from government and the private sector to discuss creating a new career series for federal IT program managers. Strengthening the role of IT managers by creating a new job classification is one [...]

In a blog posting Sunday, White House Communications Director Dan Pfeiffer announced federal Chief Performance Officer Jeffrey Zients will lead the administration’s efforts on reorganizing the federal government — a pledge made by President Barack Obama in his State of the Union address last week. “The fact is that we live and do business in [...]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates said the lack of a defense spending bill and the specter of a year-long continuing resolution is the “crisis on my doorstep.” DoD requested $549 billion, while the proposed continuing resolution, which funds the government through March 4, is set for $526 billion. That $23 billion shortfall represents the “worst of [...]

The U.S. Cyber Command is analyzing traffic across government and military networks in a central database and will use the analysis to bolster threat detection efforts, according to a report on Nextgov. “One of the things that I’m going to try to do is bring these data feeds in from all of the services, the [...]

Hot on the heels of the announcement of an Identity Ecosystem — a national strategy for secure online identity solutions, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt is talking details of the plan. Schmidt, who is noted for relative reclusiveness when it comes to speaking to the media, sat down for an interview with online business [...]

President Barack Obama’s pledge to significantly reorganize federal agencies is already taking shape. “My administration will develop a proposal to merge, consolidate and reorganize the federal government in a way that best serves the goal of a more competitive America,” Obama said, in a noted passage of his State of the Union address earlier this [...]

NSA Launches High-Tech Recruiting Tools The National Security Agency is launching a full-court press to recruit new hires for its cybersecurity initiatives. The high-tech outreach efforts to the digital generation represent one of the largest hiring efforts in recent years, the agency said. NSA is leveraging the power and ubiquity of smartphones to engage possible [...]