Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced in a Washington speech on global Internet freedom Tuesday that former National Security Council Director Christopher Painter will head the department’s new cybersecurity post. Clinton’s announcement came in a broad speech on Internet freedom, coming against the backdrop of “citizens using social networking sites run by Facebook Inc. and [...]

Deputy Defense Secretary William J. Lynn, speaking at a cybersecurity conference Tuesday, said military might is not enough to protect the nation’s cyberspace and that the best minds in the private sector and government will have to work together. “The overwhelming percentage of our nation’s critical [information] infrastructure, including the Internet itself, is in private [...]

Electronic health records and other forms of health IT have survived the wrangling over defining “meaningful use.” But, until recently, EHR was often more about talk than action. Not so anymore, said National Coordinator for Health IT Dr. David Blumenthal, on the Health IT Buzz blog. In his post, he touts new statistics — showing [...]

The White House’s science and technology office announced the launch of the beta version of its R&D Dashboard, a website to track where federal funding for research and development is going and what impact it’s having. For those with their eyes on federal investments and spending, The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy [...]

In Washington, the launch of a budget request is hardly an unprecedented act. But it is when the official disclosing the budget is the director of national intelligence and the figures being released pertain to a budget, once under lock and key. The release of the $55 billion budget, required by the 2010 Intelligence Authorization [...]

The 2011 budget (or lack thereof) stole the show at a Defense Department news conference Monday about the just-released 2012 budget. Robert Hale, DoD’s comptroller, made dire predictions about the lack of an official budget and said the hard choices the Pentagon would have to make in reduced spending was akin to “which child do [...]

Chief Information Officer of the Department of Housing and Urban Development Jerry Williams is a history buff. He’s now turning his eye for the past toward the role of the federal CIO, a position created two decades ago. And, in a world of rapidly evolving technology, that role will likely face many changes in the [...]

Deputy Secretary of Defense William J. Lynn took his cybersecurity message to the United States’ European allies last month in a special NATO conference. Now, he’s taking it to an industry crowd at the annual IT security forum, the RSA Conference. Lynn will close out the keynote portion of the conference today, focusing on how [...]

For the Defense Department, hammering out the details of the 2012 budget may be easier than figuring out what do for the remainder of the current fiscal year. Defense spending (and all other kinds as well) has limped on under the authority of an unfortunate series of continuing resolutions. The current one extends until March [...]

NASA Deputy Administrator Lori Garver visited two commercial space companies earlier this month in Las Vegas and Boulder, Colo., in a series of meetings that could be characterized as “kicking the tires.” Garver, a longtime proponent of commercial spaceflight who exemplifies the government’s new approach for the space agency, is leading NASA in its partnerships [...]