Technology

The Defense Information Systems Agency has made widespread gains in cloud computing — achieving nearly 100 percent virtualization, according to recent report in Government Computer News. DISA Chief Information Officer Henry Sienkiewicz sat down with GCN to discuss the shifting landscape of federal IT, cloud computing and some of the …

The Interior Department is conducting a limited “pilot study” into the use of iPads to boost productivity and efficiency, Nextgov reports. Andrew Jackson, deputy assistant secretary for technology, information and business services said individual Interior Department agencies purchased the tablet devices for staff who travel or telework often. Jackson, himself, …

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has been thinking cloud for a while — but now, NIST is getting serious about hammering out clear security requirements for Web-based computing applications and services. NIST was tasked by federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra with accelerating the formation of security guidelines …

When Commerce Secretary Gary Locke and White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt announced the government’s new plan for large-scale identity management — a secure “identity ecosystem” — for online transactions, they promised the private sector would have a role to play. And, with the recent appointment of Jeremy Grant, who …

At the annual eHealth Initiative Annual Conference in Washington, D.C., a few weeks ago, national health IT coordinator David Blumenthal hailed the “era of meaningful use,” using the term to describe the significant adoption of electronic health records. In a follow-up interview with FierceEMR, Blumenthal talked building interoperability into EHR …

The Department of Homeland Security is in the home stretch of deploying a new threat detection cybersecurity tool — Einstein, version two — across federal networks, and the agency is already hard at work designing an even more advanced version, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano said last week. In a speech …

At an off-the-record meeting, officials from the Office of Management and Budget and the Office of Personnel Management sat down with IT experts from government and the private sector to discuss creating a new career series for federal IT program managers. Strengthening the role of IT managers by creating a …

The U.S. Cyber Command is analyzing traffic across government and military networks in a central database and will use the analysis to bolster threat detection efforts, according to a report on Nextgov. “One of the things that I’m going to try to do is bring these data feeds in from …

Hot on the heels of the announcement of an Identity Ecosystem — a national strategy for secure online identity solutions, White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt is talking details of the plan. Schmidt, who is noted for relative reclusiveness when it comes to speaking to the media, sat down for …

NSA Launches High-Tech Recruiting Tools The National Security Agency is launching a full-court press to recruit new hires for its cybersecurity initiatives. The high-tech outreach efforts to the digital generation represent one of the largest hiring efforts in recent years, the agency said. NSA is leveraging the power and ubiquity …