Proving you are who you say you are, is not only a riddle but, in cyberspace, one of the cornerstones of a particular branch of cybersecurity known as Identity Management. It’s also one of the things waiting to be checked off President Barack Obama’s Cyberspace Policy Review’s list of action items. This week, Secretary of [...]
The Defense Information Systems Agency said this week it wants to become the Defense Department’s leading provider of cloud computing platforms and services. In an interview with Nextgov, DISA Chief Technology Officer Dave Mihelcic said his agency is “uniquely positioned” to be DoD’s cloud provider of first resort both for unclassified and classified data. Mihelcic [...]
While many people were celebrating the New Year, the Department of Homeland Security was marking the end of Critical Infrastructure Month. The month-long campaign’s purpose was to raise awareness about the vital role protecting things such as telecommunications networks, nuclear and chemical facilities, and transportation systems plays in U.S. national security. In a blog posting [...]
So, it’s another year. You’re back in the office and, soon, a new Congress will get back to work too, taking up all the issues it left on the table before it broke for the holiday recess. And, while there are still a lot of issues to cover, Congress actually did its homework early for [...]
Most of the big issues facing the Defense Department in 2011 can be boiled down to one word: budget. A duo of defense experts talked to DoDBuzz about what to look for on the defense horizon for 2011 and mostly agreed that 2010 economic uncertainty and the political grandstanding surrounding setting federal budgets will continue [...]
John Berry, head of the Office of Personnel Management, has issued some guidance about the two-year federal pay freeze enacted late last year, providing details about what’s left out of the freeze as well as who will be left out in the cold. In a memo to agency heads, Berry laid out exactly who will [...]
The incoming House Oversight and Government Reform Committee Chairman said the United States spends too much money on regulation, and much of it contributes to wasteful spending. In an appearance on public affairs show Fox News Sunday, Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) assailed burdensome regulations, which he said hurt the ability of U.S. companies to compete [...]
The Defense Department, the General Services Administration and NASA are playing tough in an effort to ensure that special access cards used by government contractors are returned after a contract’s terms are over. Until all the microchip-embedded cards are returned, the new rules, published in the Federal Register last week, allow federal agencies to withhold [...]
A new national survey released just a few weeks after the Federal Communications Commission narrowly voted to move forward on net neutrality regulations indicates that most Americans don’t want FCC to expand its authority over the Internet. In a Rasmussen Reports telephone survey of 1,000 likely voters conducted Dec. 23, only 21 percent said they [...]
Late last year, federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra proclaimed 2011 “the year of civic participation.” Chopra made his comments at a forum marking the one-year anniversary of the Open Government Directive, where he also unveiled the latest civic engagement tool: ExpertNet, a government wiki, which aims to leverage citizen expertise in policymaking. Now, in [...]