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The Department of Justice has announced funding to combat intellectual property crimes. According to this press release , grants totaling more than $1.9 million will go toward helping state and loca... More >
Massachusetts has begun an effort to consolidate its 183 data centers, 100 phone systems, 24 e-mail systems and 15 data networks, reports Government Technology . The consolidation effort is expecte... More >
According to USA Today , more than 2,200 applications asking for $28 billion in stimulus funding for new broadband projects have been received by the federal government. The government likely has ... More >
According to Federal News Radio , the General Services Administration has issued another request for information for software-as-a-service . Following complaints that the initial RFI was not well d... More >
Cyber security legislation introduced by Senators John (Jay) Rockefeller and Olympia Snowe has undergone some changes. According to Nextgov , the revised version features a more prominent f... More >
According to InformationWeek , Champion WiFi is teaming up with Monrovia, California to apply for $2.7 million to improve broadband penetration in the city . If approved, the funding would be used ... More >
Utah is working on a private cloud that will provide hosted e-mail and Web applications to cities and counties within the state, reports Government Technology . The move is part of Utah's data cent... More >
Arizona is hoping for a $4.3 million broadband mapping and planning grant from the National Telecommunications and Information Administration, reports Government Technology . The money would be use... More >
The Homeland Security Department's counterintelligence unit is warning about fake e-mails that purport to be from the DHS's intelligence division, according to Federal News Radio . The bogus e-mai... More >
According to InformationWeek , other government agencies will now be able to use the Defense Information Systems Agency's internally developed suite of administrative and workflow applications since... More >
According to InformationWeek , the Federal Communications Commission is seeking "tailored comment" to help it develop accurate and uniform definitions for broadband in its development of a Nationa... More >
The Federal Trade Commission says several Web sites that offered false promises to help consumers get free government grants have been shut down by a U.S. district court. According to Compu... More >
According to a report by the inspector general of the Department of Veterans Affairs, Katherine Adair Martinez, the agency's deputy assistant secretary for information protection and risk management,... More >
FederalReporting.gov has started collecting the spending and jobs data from grant recipients that will provide the first fact-based progress report about the stimulus efforts, reports The Washing... More >
Boston is throwing its hat into the ring for a share of $7.2 billion in technology-related funding. According to boston.com , Boston Mayor Thomas M. Menino is hoping for $15 million in stimu... More >
According to Reuters , the government will award grants totaling almost $1.2 billion to help hospitals and healthcare providers implement and use electronic health records. Of the $1.2, billion, $... More >
The Alaska Department of Administration has told government workers to use state e-mail "whenever feasible" for state business, reports TMCnet.com . If an employee uses a private e-mail account, t... More >
According to InformationWeek , former Gartner executive Dave McClure has been hired by the General Services Administration to oversee the government's USA.gov portal, the official Web site of the ... More >
Several Maryland municipalities have filed a joint application for $100 million in broadband stimulus funding , reports Government Technology . The project, called One Maryland Plan, will expand ex... More >
Although it had been denying it, the White House now admits that people may have been getting unsolicited e-mails because they had been added to e-mail lists without their knowledge. According to a... More >
The Wall Street Journal reports that the White House has shut down the e-mail account "flag(at)whitehouse.gov ," which it was using to collect collect tips from Americans on "fishy" claims about th... More >
InformationWeek reports that the Department of Homeland Security's National Cyber Security Center plans to use a wiki to encourage collaboration among federal agencies on cyber security. The wiki ... More >
The debate over health care reform has lead to an overload of traffic on the U.S. House of Representatives' main Web site, reports The Associated Press . The story on seattlepi.com says t... More >
Apparently there's been such a rush to submit applications for broadband grants from the federal stimulus package that the servers have been overloaded, prompting the deadline to be pushed back unti... More >
Researchers at the Department of Energy's Sandia National Laboratories simultaneously booted 1 million Linux kernels as virtual machines to study the behavior of botnets, reports eWEEK .They belie... More >
The Social Security Administration has agreed to a $500 million settlement of a class-action lawsuit affecting as many as 200,000 people whose Social Security benefits were suspended on unfounded s... More >
The National Science Foundation has awarded more than $1 million to three Colorado State University professors to design computer and communications systems robust enough to withstand major disaster... More >
Business Executives for National Security released a report this week, "Getting to Best: Reforming the Defense Acquisition Enterprise," that offers advice on improving the Pentagon's procurement pro... More >
The Senate Judiciary Committee has approved President Obama's nominee for director of the Patent and Trademark Office , David Kappos, reports The Wall Street Journal . Kappos, vice president of in... More >
The U.S. Office of Management and Budget has released a hefty document outlining the information that state and local governments must report about use of money from the federal stimulus package, r... More >
IBM is offering help to channel partners in landing work from the federal stimulus package, reports Channel Web . It already has held presentations in Austin and Dallas, and plans others in ... More >
The State Alliance for e-Health, an initiative of the National Governors Association, has come up with interim guidelines for states implementing provisions of the HITECH Act within the economic st... More >
According to a White House memo, federal agencies have been told to refocus low-priority spending to science and technology in their fiscal 2011 budget requests, reports InformationWeek . "Scienti... More >
The Government Accountability Office believes the Department of Defense is putting the government at risk of hiring criminals and unqualified workers because it does not have department-wide screen... More >
According to Wired, U.S. marines are banned from using Twitter , Facebook, MySpace and other social media sites, effective immediately. The order states , "These Internet sites in general ar... More >
The General Services Administration is looking for quotes for cloud storage , Web hosting, and virtual machine services, reports InformationWeek . It's a preliminary step toward the online storefr... More >
InformationWeek reports that Washington, D.C.'s Medicaid agency, the Department of Health Care Finance, has awarded a $7 million contract to MedPlus to implement the new health information exchang... More >
The Wall Street Journal reports that Melissa Hathaway , the White House's acting cyber security czar, has resigned. Hathaway says she is leaving for personal reasons. However, there may be more to ... More >
Electronic Data Systems has been awarded a $170 million contract to provide a range of tech services to Tennessee's Medicaid system , according to InformationWeek . Under the 4-year contract... More >
As of August 1, TriWest Healthcare Alliance began offering American Well , a start-up that offers doctor visits over a webcam, to military service members and their families in Hawaii, reports The ... More >
The U.S. Air Force made an appearance at the Defcon hacker conference looking for recruits , reports Computerworld . Col. Michael Convertino had such good luck finding recruits for both civilian an... More >
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