Cybersecurity at DOE still lags: IG
The Energy Department continues to struggle with information security and many of its weaknesses are the same as in past years, according to the department's inspector general.
DHS taps Garcia to fill cybersecurity post
Greg Garcia, vice president for information security programs at the Information Technology Association of America, will be the first to serve at the assistant secretary level.
Cyber Storm exercise challenged coordination, communications
The multilayered cyberattack highlighted shortcomings in response planning at all levels of government, but demonstrated agencies' willingness to try solutions on the fly.
IT-intensive Defense projects face cuts
Senate and House head to conference on funding bill.
NASA goes its own way, rankling GAO and IG
NASA has ignored its own promises to the Government Accountability Office to remedy a protested contract, which could jeopardize its long-term relationship with the watchdog agency.
Communities of practice take shape in Air Force
Knowledge Now brings together airmen with similar interests.
Maj. Gen. William Lord | IT consolidations lift the Air Force
Lord's career has put him in some challenging places, including as commander of the 81st Training Wing at Keesler Air Force Base, and as director of communications and information at the Air Mobility Command headquarters.
Senate passes 2007 Defense appropriations bill
H.R. 5631 now will go to conference committee for reconciliation with the House version of the legislation.
Roger Cressey | Five years of fits and starts
<font color="CC0000">9/11 Personal Views'<font color>One of Roger Cressey's most vivid memories from Sept. 11, 2001, is of walking into the White House Situation Room and seeing Condoleeza Rice and Dick Cheney watching events unfold.
Air Force awards $628m task order to CSC
The Air Force Materiel Command has given a firm fixed-price task order to Computer Sciences Corp. for systems integration support to configure, deploy, and conduct training and change management activities for the Expeditionary Combat Support System.
Energy, NNSA disagree over security practices
Carl Staton, the Energy Department's incoming deputy CIO, says his experiences with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's semi-autonomous agencies would serve him well at DOE, where a similarly loose organizational structure is in place. He may have to start with the relationship between DOE and the National Nuclear Security Administration.
Staton joins Energy as deputy CIO
Errington replacement ends three decades with weather agency.
Errington bids adieu to government service
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font> Energy Department deputy CIO Gordon Errington is retiring; Carl Staton, the CIO for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, will succeed him.
Red storm rising
A growing band of civilian units inside China is writing malicous code and training to launch cyberstrikes into enemy systems. And for many of these units, the first enemy is the U.S. Defense Department.
Air Force to do more with less
The Air Force is reducing its total head count by more than 40,000 over the next 15 months, with at least 8,000 of that number coming from communications and information functions.
Air Force moving into 'Net communities
MONTGOMERY, Ala.'The Air Force is establishing Internet "communities of practice," where Web sites will bring together widely dispersed groups to share information and solve problems.
Sharing data is crucial to cyberdefense
Each agency within the Defense Department has frontline responsibility for securing its own IT systems, but the job doesn't end there.
Malware's tangled roots
The federal government's computer networks are, collectively, the single largest target in the world. And the Defense Department systems are the most aggressively pinged'the Global Information Grid, the military's primary electronic conduit for secure and unclassified network traffic, gets scanned millions of times a day.
Chinese seek military ID info
According to Maj. Gen. William Lord, the People's Republic has downloaded several terabytes of data from NIPRNet as part of its battle plan for conflict in cyberspace.
Computer stolen from VA subcontractor, Unisys
<font color="CC0000">(UPDATED) </font> The Veterans Affairs Department today confirmed that a subcontractor, Unisys Corp., had informed the department that a desktop computer containing sensitive personal information of veterans is missing from the company's offices.
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