Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski dropped by the Consumer Electronics Show to speak about both the “immense opportunity and the critical challenge” of U.S. wireless capacity. Genachowski said the United States is at the beginning stages of a “mobile revolution that is sparking an explosion in wireless traffic.” But, while that means Americans are [...]

The Intelligence Community’s efforts to strengthen cybersecurity got a billion-dollar upgrade last week. The National Security Agency, along with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, broke ground last Thursday on a plot in Utah that eventually will become a one million square-foot, $1.2 billion state-of-the-art data center on the grounds of a National Guard post [...]

President Barack Obama nominated a number of officials to fill key economic posts ahead of the forthcoming release of the 2012 budget, according to a Government Executive report. Among those nominated, is a new No. 2 for the Office of Management and Budget — Heather Higginbottom, who was nominated to serve as the agency’s deputy [...]

President Barack Obama signed an official memo last week, giving his stamp of approval on Defense Secretary Robert Gates’ initiative to shutter the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Va. “I hereby accept the recommendations of the secretary of defense and chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff and approve the disestablishment of United States Joint [...]

Top White House officials are attempting to smooth out one of the still-untamed aspects of the Wild, Wild West atmosphere of the Internet: secure online identities. At a Stanford University forum Friday, leaders from Silicon Valley and the Beltway, including Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt, discussed plans to implement [...]

Forget net neutrality. In the wake of the court fight between Google, Microsoft and the Interior Department, the new controversial federal IT issue may be tech procurement neutrality. On Friday, federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra sent a memo to agency CIOs and procurement officials to remind them of the government’s stance of being technology- [...]

In a poll of social media experts and Facebook users, the armed services were singled out for their social media savvy, according to a report on Nextgov. Facebook’s Washington department polled what Nextgov said was a “handful” of social media experts as well as Facebook users on three of the site’s fan pages:  Congress on [...]

The Saturday shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), which killed six people, including a federal judge and a 9-year-old girl, and wounded 14 others, according to police, has spurred reactions across the federal government and Congress. USA Today reports political leaders across the spectrum and throughout the halls of government are “deeply shaken” by the [...]

This week, President Barack Obama signed into a law a major reorganization of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The America Competes Reauthorization Act of 2010 directs NIST, part of the Commerce Department, to develop cloud-computing solutions with private-sector partners to formalize the organization’s cloud posture, according to a report on GovInfoSecurity. The bill [...]

Transitioning to next-generation Internet will now be more firmly entrenched in the federal IT acquisition process, according to a new rule published in the Federal Register last month. The new rule, proposed by the Defense Department, the General Services Administration and NASA, adds certain provisions to the Federal Acquisition Regulation, including a measure that requires [...]