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August 31, 2009

DOJ Awards Grants for Criminal Intellectual Property Enforcement

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 Begins IT Consolidation Effort

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 >

August 28, 2009

Feds Get 2,200 Apps for Broadband Funding

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 >

August 27, 2009

GSA Reissues RFI for SaaS

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 >

August 26, 2009

Cyber Security Legislation Gets Revised

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 >

Champion, Monronia, Calif. Apply for Broadband Funds

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 >

August 25, 2009

Utah to Create Private Cloud for Local Agencies

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 >

August 24, 2009

Arizona Wants $4.3 Million for Broadband Mapping

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 >

DHS Warns of Fake Intel E-Mails

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 >

Defense Info Agency Opens up Content Management Apps

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 >

FCC Needs Your Help to Define Broadband

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 >

FTC Goes After Bogus Free Government Grant Sites

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 >

August 21, 2009

VA Reports Find Misconduct Among Officials

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 >

Web Site Begins Collecting Stimulus Data

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 Asking for $15 Million in Broadband Stimulus

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 >

August 20, 2009

U.S. Announces Grants for Electronic Health Records

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 >

Alaska Sets New State E-Mail Policy

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 >

Former Gartner Exec to Head USA.gov

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 >

August 19, 2009

Maryland Municipalities File for Joint Broadband Stimulus

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 >

August 18, 2009

White House Admits to Unsolicited E-Mails

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 >

White House E-Mail Tip Account Shut Down

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 >

August 17, 2009

Government Agencies to Use Wiki for Cyber Security

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 >

August 14, 2009

House Web Site Swamped

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 >

Broadband Grant Deadline Pushed Back

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 >

August 13, 2009

1 Million Linux Kernels Used in Botnet Study

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 >

Faulty SSA Database Matches Prompt $500 Million Settlement

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 >

Colorado Computer Research Wins Stimulus Grants

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 >

August 11, 2009

Business Executives for National Security Recommend Acquisitions Improvements

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 >

Senate Panel OKs IBM's Kappos for Patent Office

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 >

August 10, 2009

Stimulus Data Reporting Requirements Set

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 Offers Partners Stimulus Help

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 >

HITECH Act Interim Guidelines Urge States to Get Busy

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 >

August 6, 2009

Government Directed to Spend More on Science, Technology

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 >

August 5, 2009

GAO: DoD has No Screening Standards for Foreign Nationals

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 >

August 4, 2009

Marines Ban Social Networks

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 >

GSA Asks for Quotes on Cloud Computing Services

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 >

MedPlus to Provide D.C. with Medicaid Data Hub

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 >

Hathaway Resigns as Cyber Czar

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 >

August 3, 2009

Tennessee Awards EDS Medicaid Contract

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 >

Military Gets Mental Health Care over Web

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 >

Defense Department Recruits at Defcon Hacker Conference

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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