Here is today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: The Navy has reduced it’s estimated cost for the Next-Generation Enterprise Network in roughly half to between $4.5 and $5.398 billion over five years. More here. NASA is investigating allegations that a team of Iranian hackers compromised its Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificate. More here. TheRead… Read more »
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Using Evidence and Evaluation to Govern
OMB released new guidance supporting the use of evidence and evaluation in making budget trade-off decisions. The guidance reflects a high degree of sophistication on how to do this in a budget-constrained environment. The Office of Management and Budget issued new guidance to agencies encouraging them to use program evaluation and evidence-based decisions when developingRead… Read more »
Hip Hop Doc Heads to Uganda: ICT and Culture
The following guest post is written by Dr. Rani Whitfield – also known as the Tha Hip Hop Doc. This post chronicles his recent trip to Uganda to discuss telemedicine’s impact in Africa as well as other observations. It’s been just over six weeks since my return from Uganda and I can’t shake the country’sRead… Read more »
FCVW 2012 Conference – Keeping up with the Future
Last week, I attended the Federal Consortium for Virtual Worlds annual conference. I realize the theme for the conference was “Inspire the Future,” but an underlying theme I sensed was “Keeping up with the Future.” Our society and the technological changes are hitting us at an exponential rate. Like one of the attendees said toRead… Read more »
Chinese Cyber Espionage, Warrants for GPS Data, and More
Today’s federal cybersecurity and information technology news: Officials at the Federal Bureau of Investigation, Department of Homeland Security, and Department of Justice are considering China Mobile’s license for providing international information service in the United States over concerns about cybersecurity and spying. More here. Law enforcement and civil liberties groups debated a bill requiring aRead… Read more »
Issue of the Week: Budget uncertainty reigns supreme and your weekend reads
Welcome to GovLoop Insights Issue of the Week with Chris Dorobek where each week, our goal is to find an issue — a person — an idea — then helped define the past 7-days and we work to find an issue that will also will have an impact on the days, weeks and monthsRead… Read more »
Supervisory Contract Specialist Vacancy at NIH
DUTIES: As the Director of the National Library of Medicine (NLM), Office of Acquisitions (OA) and Consolidated Operations Acquisitions Center, you will support the NLM in addition to a host of Institutes/Centers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH). As the Director, you will provide leadership and strategic vision, program oversight, resource planning and evaluation,Read… Read more »
Weekly Round-up: May 18, 2012
Gadi Ben-Yehuda The business world was all atwitter about Facebook, but my round-up is about Twitter this week. Twitter in the US and the UK. Brunel University published “An Overview Study of Twitter in the UK Local Government,” and the IBM Center released “Working the Network,” a Twitter guide for federal agencies, written by SyracuseRead… Read more »
On Distrusting Your Toaster and Other Tiny Dystopias
Close to 16 years ago, Matt Devost, Brian Houghton, and Neal Pollard warned you not to trust your toaster. The title referred literally to computer-connected toasters and more broadly at the problem of security vulnerabilities in a networked world. Since then, the cybersecurity world has focused more narrowly on corporate and government network security andRead… Read more »
10 Steps to Measuring Social Media ROI
Last week I was able to present at the Obtaining Value and Insight With Social Medial Analysis event hosted by IBM Analytics Solution Center. The abstract for the event was: The internet is in a second wave of innovation. At the turn of the millennium, we saw a technology-driven, website-centric new-world-order. We are now partRead… Read more »