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InternetNews March 16, 2006 Roy Mark |
Feds Again Flunk Network Security A large percentage of federal agencies flunked their annual network security review under the Federal Information Security Management Act, including the Department of Homeland of Security and the Department of Defense. |
InternetNews May 20, 2010 |
Feds Seeks Blue-Sky Ideas for Cybersecurity Multiple federal agencies have established a portal to solicit help from the private sector to devise new strategies and technologies to safeguard critical data networks. |
InternetNews July 19, 2005 Roy Mark |
GAO: Federal Systems Security Still Lacking A new report finds major security weaknesses at 24 major federal agencies. |
Information Today August 6, 2012 Barbie E. Keiser |
Cybersecurity and Privacy Concerns at the Highest Levels of Government Ensuring the privacy and security of personal information collected by federal government agencies and preventing cyberattacks in the future is a responsibility of government that all Americans can support. |
InternetNews April 13, 2007 Roy Mark |
Feds Pass Information Security Test -- Barely The government's annual agency information security reports cards are out, and Uncle Sam is still struggling to protect sensitive data. |
InternetNews March 17, 2004 Roy Mark |
House Panel Slams Federal IT Security With cyber-attacks against the government surging, U.S. agencies fail to meet the challenge. |
Information Today April 22, 2013 |
Expanded Public Access to Federally Funded Research -- A Call to Action The Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, and Association of Research Libraries have called on the research university community to provide input to the U.S. government for increasing access to the results of federally funded research. |
InternetNews February 16, 2005 Tim Gray |
Feds Fail Computer Security Test Despite improvements, the government's computer security program proves lacking once again. |
InternetNews February 26, 2009 Richard Adhikari |
Obama Proposes Millions for Cybersecurity Security experts are praising the new administration's increased spending on national network security efforts. |
Information Today November 12, 2015 |
Senate Approves Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act CISA is intended to protect companies from data breaches by allowing them to share cybersecurity and customer information with the Department of Homeland Security without a warrant. |
InternetNews August 12, 2005 Roy Mark |
Lieberman Raps Federal IT Security Systems The senator points to latest GAO report underscoring pervasive computer security weaknesses in 24 major government agencies. According to the report, the deficiencies place federal operations and assets at increased risk. |
InternetNews July 8, 2010 |
Feds Work for Private-Sector Cybersecurity Deal Public-private partnerships are viewed as the way to go for proper cybersecurity, but experts warn there are still pitfalls. |
InternetNews April 2, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Senators Introduce Cybersecurity Overhaul Bill Sens. Rockefeller and Snowe bring forward sweeping bill to revamp federal cybersecurity operations and establish better coordination with businesses. |
Chemistry World March 7, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
Obama's proposed science budget disappoints US researchers and science advocates are expressing significant disappointment at funding proposals for research agencies in President Obama's budget request for 2015. |
InternetNews May 29, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Obama's Cybersecurity Mandate a Bold First Step Obama's long-awaited cybersecurity announcement raises the profile of the issue, but many challenges remain. |
InternetNews April 22, 2010 |
White House To Modernize Cybersecurity Reports New directive requires government agencies to get with the times and abandon paper-based reporting for real-time digital updates on all potential cyber-security threats. |
OCC Bulletin October 29, 2003 |
Proposed Revisions to Risk-Based Capital Regulations Implementing the New Basel Capital Accord The U.S. banking agencies are currently seeking comment on a proposed framework for implementing the New Basel Capital Accord in the United States through an advance notice of proposed rulemaking. |
InternetNews June 29, 2010 |
White House to Cut Billions From Iffy IT Projects Administration eyes trimming up to $3 billion from financial IT projects that aren't necessarily making the grade, along with other risky technology initiatives. |
Food Engineering April 30, 2009 |
Food safety collaboration called for at all levels of government Recent salmonella outbreaks involving peanut butter and fresh produce underscore the need to repair gaps in state and local food safety programs and integrate them better with federal food safety efforts |
Information Today May 16, 2013 Peggy Garvin |
Obama Administration Advances Open Data Policy The White House made major information policy last week, issuing an Executive Order and an Office of Management and Budget Memorandum that established "open and machine readable" as the new default for federal government information. |
CIO June 11, 2012 Thor Olavsrud |
Big Data Problem Plagues Government Agencies Government agencies are collecting vast amounts of data, but they're struggling just to store it, let alone analyze it to improve efficiency, accuracy and forecasts. |
InternetNews March 10, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Broadband Stimulus Grants Taking Shape Agencies overseeing $7.2 billion in federal grants for expanding high-speed data networks vow to disperse funds quickly. |
The Motley Fool November 8, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Who Should Help You Out of Debt? Credit counseling agencies may soon be a thing of the past. The IRS has recently informed several credit-counseling agencies that they don't qualify as tax-exempt. |
Financial Planning March 1, 2007 Lynn Hume |
The Bond Buyer SEC Votes on Rules for Rating Agencies: The proposed rules would implement provisions of the Credit Rating Agency Reform Act of 2006, which Congress approved and President Bush signed to foster increased competition, transparency and accountability among rating agencies. |
Chemistry World October 3, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
US research agencies in limbo Congress adjourned in September to campaign for the mid-term elections without passing a budget for any federal agency, and won't return to work until 12 November. |
InternetNews February 10, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Obama Calls for Cybersecurity Review After a string of breaches and data leaks, president orders two-month interagency review to shore up computing infrastructure. |
Information Today October 20, 2015 Barbie E. Keiser |
The Federal Government Turns To Silicon Valley for Tech Support What's needed is input from these experts, but more importantly, a new viewpoint from a young demographic that works in new ways. |
Chemistry World April 15, 2011 Rebecca Trager |
Delayed US budgets finally agreed The Obama administration says it no longer plans to keep the budgets of the key physical science agencies on a trajectory to double between 2006 and 2016, but it is still vowing to provide them with 'strong investments'. |
National Defense June 2013 Tim Larkins |
Threats and Opportunities Growing in Cybersecurity The federal government will spend about $10 billion on cybersecurity in fiscal year 2013. That number could grow to $13 billion in fiscal year 2014. |
PC Magazine July 11, 2007 Cyrus Farivar |
Closing the Loopholes on Data Theft Millions have had personal data, including credit card numbers, stolen this year. Congress is seeking to pass a stricter, nationwide law. |
InternetNews November 10, 2009 |
Feds Facing Daily Cyber Threats, Tight Budgets New study highlights shortcomings in federal cybersecurity amid White House policy overhaul. |
Chemistry World February 1, 2013 Rebecca Trager |
Duplicate grants could be costing US science agencies millions The US's premiere science agencies may be inadvertently awarding tens of millions of dollars to scientists who submitted the same grant proposal multiple times and accepted duplicate funding. |
Geotimes November 2003 Megan Sever |
Government peer review The federal government recently proposed extensive new peer-review procedures for scientific reports from regulatory agencies. While some agencies already practice peer review with their documents, these, the first government-wide mandated standards, have some people crying foul. |
Information Today May 31, 2012 Barbie E. Keiser |
Government in the Mobile Era A document released May 23, 2012, Digital Government: Building a 21 st Century Platform to Better Serve the American People, reveals the Obama administration strategy to enable citizens to find the services they need across government programs, "anytime, anywhere, and on any device." |
National Defense October 2007 Grace Jean |
Agencies Still Lacking Coordination to Handle Another 9/11 A recent report suggests that federal agencies might not be better prepared to handle another major in-flight emergency should it materialize. |
InternetNews April 28, 2010 |
Obama Tech Chiefs Post Agencies' e-Gov Ratings Federal CTO Chopra and CIO Kundra post score card evaluating agencies' open government plans as a pair of studies surface describing increasing citizen engagement with government online. |
CIO October 1, 2002 Michael Goldberg |
Uncle Sam Wants Web Services As associate director of IT and e-government at the Office of Management and Budget, Mark Forman is using technology to make the federal government more efficient and more responsive to citizens, all while ending a legacy of information silos that guards the bureaucratic status quo. |
Information Today December 9, 2002 Miriam A. Drake |
Government Printing Tug of War Continues The Office of Management and Budget issued a memorandum on May 3, 2002 that directed executive agencies to contract directly with private firms for printing their documents. Things have gotten even more complicated since then in a bitter spate of infighting. |
CIO January 1, 2003 Elana Varon |
Think Federally, Secure Locally When the Pacific Northwest Economic Region needed a regional cybersecurity vulnerability assessment, it didn't run to the feds. Instead, the group developed its own exercise, called Blue Cascades, that explored what would happen if critical services like the electric grid or the Internet were lost. |
Reason August 2003 Ted Balaker |
Government Performance Anxiety The Office of Management and Budget (OMB) recently attempted to find out whether federal government programs actually do what they're supposed to do. More than half the programs couldn't be evaluated because they don't have acceptable performance measures or do not collect data. |
BusinessWeek July 11, 2005 Amy Borrus |
A Business Rife With Bad Guys A new bankruptcy law will send hundreds of thousands of people into a minefield where legitimate counseling agencies do business alongside unsavory players. |
InternetNews February 15, 2008 Andy Patrizio |
Does Legislating LimeWire Use Make Sense? A Congressional panel held hearings this week on a proposed law that would, in part, ensure peer-to-peer file sharing applications do not compromise the security of federal government computers. |
National Defense September 2010 Sandra I. Erwin |
Surge of Cybersecurity Bureaucracies Sparks Lucrative Opportunities For Industry A cybersecurity gold rush is under way amid widespread confusion about how the federal government will oversee efforts to protect the nation's computer networks. |
Search Engine Watch July 8, 2004 Shari Thurow |
Ad Agencies & Search Engine Marketing Firms Beginning to Play Together Advertising agencies are spending more on search engine marketing, with one in five marketers buying in excess of 1,000 keywords, according to Jupiter Research. |
CIO March 1, 2003 Todd Datz |
A More Perfect Union President George Bush signed the E-Government Act of 2002 into effect last December, taking a giant step toward launching the federal government into the information age. We break down the costs, the players, the hurdles and its future. |
InternetNews October 14, 2010 |
Defense, Homeland Security Team in Cyber Push Top military and civilian agencies join forces to pool resources and share personnel in the ongoing struggle to preempt and combat threats against U.S. digital systems. |
National Defense August 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
Shortage of Talent Could Cripple Cybersecurity Plan Government agencies are worrying that they don't have enough knowledge or talent to improve cybersecurity in the United States. |
Pharmaceutical Executive October 1, 2005 Alana Klein |
Ad Agencies to the Rescue Faced with strict guidelines and regulatory pressures over advertising, pharmaceutical clients are looking to their agencies for support and guidance. |
Entrepreneur March 2009 Kevin Manahan |
Uncle Sam Wants Your Business Government agencies are prime groups to do business with when the budget year nears its end. Here's how you can promote your services directly to the government. |
Information Today August 5, 2002 Miriam A. Drake |
Is the GPO Endangered? For the Government Printing Office, dissemination of government documents is a nonpartisan, virtually automatic process, which has been enhanced in recent years by expanded reliance on the Internet and other new technologies. Now the GPO's hands have been tied. |