Is Your Privacy Worth 50 Foiled Terror Plots?
Postal Service Eyes Cuba
Tangherlini As GSA's Mr. Fix-It?
Lew Cleans Up Signature for the Nation's Currency
The Plan to Open More Military Jobs to Women
Should Leaders Ever Lie?
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Katherine McIntire Peters
Executive Editor
Katherine Peters leads editorial strategy and operations for Nextgov. She previously was a senior correspondent for Government Executive magazine, where she covered defense, homeland security and energy. Prior to joining Government Executive in 1995, she covered U.S. military operations and training for Army Times. She also worked as a writer and technical editor at both IDC Washington and EDS. She holds a B.A. in English from Elizabethtown College and an M.A. in Journalism from American University.
To cut costs, Defense and VA scrap plans for new electronic health record
February 6, 2013
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta and Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki announced late Tuesday they would forgo plans to build a new health records system to be used jointly by the departments and instead pursue less expensive technologies to make their respective systems more interoperable. The new approach will significantly cut ...
Cyber Command’s growth plan raises a lot of questions
January 28, 2013
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Defense Department officials are planning a huge expansion of U.S. Cyber Command into three “teams” to protect privately owned and operated critical infrastructure such as the electricity grid and banking system; help commanders execute cyberattacks during military operations; and protect Pentagon networks, the Washington Post reported late Sunday. According to ...
Pentagon’s cyber pilot dropout rate signals trouble ahead
October 25, 2012
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Defense executives can’t be happy that nearly one-third of the companies participating in a Pentagon pilot program to boost cybersecurity by sharing classified threat information have dropped out, apparently because it was too onerous to participate. Five of the 17 companies in the Defense Industrial Base Enhanced Cybersecurity Services group ...
GSA considers creating a cloud services brokerage
July 18, 2012
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The General Services Administration is asking vendors to submit ideas for creating new acquisition vehicles for Web-based storage and computing services. “One emerging concept in cloud computing is that of a ‘cloud broker’ or an entity that manages the use, performance and delivery of cloud services and negotiates relationships between ...
Power Outages, Rabbit Holes and the Importance of Redundancy
July 5, 2012
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We spend a lot of time thinking about new technologies here at Nextgov -- mainly about how developments could affect government operations. It can sometimes be hard to keep the big picture in mind: What does a particular technology really mean for taxpayers? For the employees who must buy it ...
Tech Roundup
July 1, 2012 Network Defense The Obama administration is expanding to all military contractors a computer security program that shares classified threat information. After a year of trials with select vendors, the Defense Industrial Base, or DIB, cybersecurity pilot program will invite all military vendors and their Internet service providers to voluntarily join ...
Got a question about the FedRAMP cloud security program?
June 6, 2012
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Today, federal officials began accepting applications for security certification under the Federal Risk and Authorization management Program. By establishing industry-wide security standards for vendors offering Web-based software services and data storage, officials believe FedRAMP will significantly improve data protections and simplify the process for purchasing cloud services. While the program ...
Cloud security accreditation program takes flight
June 5, 2012
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The federal government on Wednesday will begin accepting security certification applications from companies that provide software services and data storage through the cloud. The Federal Risk and Authorization Management Program, the governmentwide cloud security assessment plan known as FedRAMP, aims to protect federal data as agencies increasingly turn to Web-based ...
Companies are mining data to solve real world challenges
May 1, 2012
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Big data has been making big news in fields ranging from astronomy to online advertising. The term big data can be difficult to pin down because it shows up in so many places. Facebook crunches through big data on your user profile and friend network to deliver micro-targeted ads. Google ...
A message from the Editor
April 30, 2012
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Welcome to the new Nextgov. We’ve redesigned the website to better showcase our award-winning journalism and bring you a broader array of information about technology and the business of government. While the new site is a dramatic visual departure from our previous design, the improvements are more than cosmetic. We’ve ...
