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Aliya Sternstein
Senior Correspondent
Aliya Sternstein reports on cybersecurity and homeland security systems for Nextgov. She has covered technology for nine years at such publications as National Journal's TechnologyDaily, Federal Computer Week and Forbes. Before joining Government Executive, she covered agriculture and derivatives trading for Congressional Quarterly. She has been a guest commentator on C-SPAN, WTOP and Federal News Radio. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
Immigration checks for contract jobs spur debate
November 2, 2007 Technology companies fear that new proposals threaten to disadvantage them by mandating that all federal contractors participate in what industry groups say is an error-prone, automated system for confirming the legal status of workers. Companies now must only check the status of workers through document verification. Jennifer Kerber, senior director ...
Old tools hamper drug inspections, observers say
November 1, 2007 Outdated information technology systems are frustrating the Food and Drug Administration's inspections of foreign drugs, former FDA officials and the government's watchdog agency told lawmakers Thursday. The testimony was presented at a House Energy and Commerce Oversight and Investigations Subcommittee hearing on FDA's inspection program. FDA's import electronic screening system ...
Official defends Pentagon, VA moves toward e-health
October 30, 2007 The Defense and Veterans Affairs departments share a lot of electronic health records, contrary to what some observers believe, a VA official said Tuesday. "We have made significant progress as to those two organizations," Cliff Freeman, director of the program for sharing Defense and VA health information technology, told an ...
Panel proposed to balance research, security
October 29, 2007 The National Academies is recommending that the government establish a science and security commission to strike a balance between freely exchanging unclassified research with foreigners and controlling information that terrorists might use against the United States. The proposal comes from a report released Oct. 18 by a National Academies committee ...
E-health problems in the military frustrate lawmakers
October 24, 2007 At the third hearing on the topic this year, lawmakers on Wednesday struggled to understand why the departments of Defense and Veterans Affairs continue to have problems electronically sharing information necessary to treat service members and veterans. "I hope and I expect that DOD and VA will tell us today ...
Labor union blasts FAA's new navigation approach
October 17, 2007 A labor union that represents Federal Aviation Administration workers is criticizing a contract the agency recently awarded for a satellite-based navigation program, claiming that the approach may impair aviation safety. Tom Brantley, president of the Professional Airways Systems Specialists, said in written testimony that the contract to implement the Automatic ...
Internet-based system for federal documents previewed
October 15, 2007 Congressional administrative offices, librarians and select federal employees recently were given a glimpse of the government's first Internet-based system for collecting, distributing and preserving content from all three branches of government. The Future Digital System, or FDSys, will replace the GPO Access Web site and other Government Printing Office operations ...
NASA’s role revisited at 50-year mark
October 2, 2007 In honor of NASA's 50th birthday this month, NASA Administrator Michael Griffin recently gave a lecture on the "space economy," a term for the role that extraterrestrial exploration plays in the global economy. Ironically, some observers say NASA isn't meeting the term's potential worth. "The focus of space exploration today ...
Satisfaction with agency Web sites remains on plateau
September 18, 2007 Federal Web sites essentially are treading water in their attempts to keep pace with private-sector portals, according to one expert who analyzed new e-government data. Due to bureaucracy and budgets, there is no one specific element in federal online performance that has made great strides, said Larry Freed, president and ...
EPA mapping work aims for more readable data
September 14, 2007 The Environmental Protection Agency, currently confronting criticism for withholding information from the public, says its data will be more readable and interactive when available through Microsoft's Virtual Earth 3-D service within the next six weeks. "The performance of our servers for hosting visualization tools has always been lacking," acknowledged Pat ...
