The National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace, a public-private partnership on identity management solutions to bolster e-commerce, was officially launched last week. In a conference call with reporters, White House Director for Cybersecurity Andy Ozment and head of NSTIC’s  national office Jeremy Grant spelled out the priorities and  goals of the initiative. The four [...]

In a difficult effort to double expected cuts to defense spending in the wake ofbudget battles on Capitol Hill, Defense Secretary Robert Gates has been a leader in fiscal responsibility by making tough decisions, the defense secretary’s No. 2 for public affairs said. In addition to Defense Department cuts to the tune of $400 billion, [...]

The Office of Management and Budget is finalizing its plan to Implement the Plain Writing Act of 2010, which aims to cut back on verbose and overly complex federal communication. The new guidelines  enable agencies to train employees on plain writing, meeting the deadlines and implementing the law. In the plan, Administrator of the Office [...]

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has coined an apt metaphor to describe the importance of agency IT investments: “digital oil.” As Federal News Radio reports, Kundra was on hand at the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cloud Computing Forum and Workshop to deliver an update on the 25-point federal IT reform the Office [...]

Today is the deadline for contractors to respond to a Defense Information Systems Agency request for information about a $440 million satellite program to provide broadband services for U.S. operations in Iraq and Afghanistan for a 15-year lease period. Nextgov reports that DISA now expends somewhere in the range of $500 million for commercial satellite [...]

Just one day after President Barack Obama said hundreds of billions of dollars in defense spending would be cut over the next 12 years to help reduce the debt and deficit, the Defense Department is already embarking on a “comprehensive review,” to make it happen. Obama proposed $400 billion in defense cuts through 2023, extending [...]

Thomas Lee, the new director of the Microsystems Technology Office of the super high-tech Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is no slouch. He served as a professor of electrical engineering at Stanford for 17 years, founded two tech start-ups and just this month was awarded the Ho-Am Prize in Engineering, known as the “Korean Nobel.” [...]

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra told a Senate subcommittee yesterday that of the 800 federal data centers the government wants to close by 2015, 100 of them could be shuttered by the end of this year, according to a Bloomberg report. “We want to move forward very, very aggressively to make sure that assets [...]

Chris Inglis, deputy director of the National Security Agency, said like most other government agencies the most experienced and technically proficient employee is usually next in line for the promotion. “Everyone has the capacity to be a good manager and a good leader, but whether they like it is a different story,” Inglis, the agency’s [...]

No matter the challenges that lie ahead, the United States Army is prepared to respond “with the same courage and resolve with which it has responded over the past 235 years,”  said Gen. Martin Dempsey, who was confirmed as the next Army chief of staff by the Senate last month and officially took over yesterday. [...]