Technology

A company that got rejected by regulators from building a nationwide, fourth-generation satellite wireless network has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. LightSquared said in a statement that it entered bankruptcy to give it time to “resolve the regulatory issues that have prevented it” from building the network, adding that …

U.S. government technology officials plan to tie the federal mobility strategy with the website reform strategy, according to Nextgov. Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel told lawmakers that the combined strategy will also focus heavily on telework, Joseph Marks reports. Reps. Elijah Cummings (D-Md.) and Gerry Connolly (D.-Va.) organized the …

Industry and lawmakers want the General Services Administration to consider changing its green building standards, Federal Times’ Andy Medici writes. According to the report, the government is reviewing its green standards, shaping how building greenness will be measured and how to spend federal funding on construction over the next five …

The Commerce Department and the Environmental Protection Agency launched an effort Monday as part of an initiative to expand the U.S. environmental industry’s global presence. EPA recently held a Technology Market Summit, where Administrator Lisa Jackson and Commerce Secretary John Bryson detailed their agencies’ environmental technology and job creation efforts. …

Defense Information Systems Agency officials recently detailed the agency’s plans to develop a mobile strategy in the coming months, FierceGovernment IT reports. DISA plans to establish a policy allowing personnel to use their own device to connect to unclassified networks by fall 2013 at the earliest. In the interim, the …

Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) believes the Defense Department should be in charge of defending the U.S. and critical infrastructure against cyber attacks, he wrote in a letter to the country’s highest-ranked cyber military officer. In the letter obtained by Federal News Radio’s Jason Miller, McCain told Army Gen. Keith Alexander …

The Energy Department and its sub-agency the National Nuclear Security Administration announced plans in March to begin to integrate their information technology and cloud computing assets. Energy and NNSA IT executives told attendees of InformationWeek’s recent Government IT Leadership Forum that the integrated cloud model may bode well for other …

The FBI wants legislation that would require Internet companies to build backdoors into their communication technologies that would allow government surveillance, CNET reports. White House, Senate and FBI representatives held a meeting discussing technological shifts in communication that make it difficult for investigators to conduct wiretapping and other “going dark” …

On Monday, the Department of Veterans Affairs’ inspector general issued a report finding the VA has not accurately reported the speed at which it provides mental healthcare to veterans. VA Secretary Eric Shinseki told the House Veterans Affairs Committee during a hearing following the report’s release that the agency will …

The federal government should give healthcare organizations more time before starting the next phase of implementing electronic health records, according to letters from a group of health industry chief information officers. The College of Healthcare Information Management Executives told the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of …