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Katherine McIntire Peters

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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.

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Help Us Celebrate Your Failures. Really.

March 28, 2012 You’ve heard the expression “success has many fathers; failure is an orphan.” Help us turn that around at our May 7 Excellence in Government conference here in Washington. We’re looking for a few brave souls willing to own their failures in the interest of helping their peers learn from their ...

DARPA Eyes Battlefield Medicine Manufacturing

March 22, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency launched a project yesterday called Bio-MOD -- Biologically-derived Medicines on Demand -- to develop portable gizmos to manufacture medicines on the battlefield. DARPA wants researchers to concentrate on developing a system that can quickly manufacture in remote outposts a class of medicines called protein ...

FBI Deals Major Blow to Hacker Collective, Stratfor Data Thieves

March 6, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV The FBI's New York field office Tuesday announced the arrests of six key hackers allegedly responsible for crimes affecting over 1 million people. The hackers all were aligned with the collective Anonymous or its offshoots, including LulzSec, AntiSec and Internet Feds, according to the FBI announcement. Among the hackers was ...

CBS Takes on Stuxnet

March 5, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV While President Obama and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu work to reassure themselves and the Western world that they won't allow Iran to develop a nuclear weapon, CBS on Sunday reminded viewers that nuclear bombs aren't the only weapons of mass destruction U.S. leaders are worried about. In a "60 ...

Got a Problem? Blame the Help Desk.

February 1, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV In what might be the modern equivalent of the cat-ate-my-homework excuse perfected by a previous generation of school children, James Murdoch is offering a new defense for ignorance of critical matters: Blame the IT shop. Murdoch's lawyers say the tabloid executive never received an email chain describing the scope of ...

Experts to Industry: Step Up Cyber Spending 9X

January 31, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV To prevent a digital Pearl Harbor from crippling the country, banks, utilities and communications companies should increase funding for cybersecurity ninefold, according to a new study by Bloomberg Government and the Ponemon Institute LLC to be released today: To achieve security capable of stopping 95 percent of attacks -- considered ...

State of the union fails to leverage tech-savvy administration

January 24, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV Anyone expecting the leader of the most technology-focused White House to date to offer an innovation roadmap for the battered economy was probably disappointed in President Obama's state of the union address Tuesday evening. Obama made a glancing reference to recently-announced plans for Business.USA.gov, a new federal website to help ...

Can a website boost the economy? President Obama hopes so.

January 13, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV Along with the government reorganization President Obama announced Friday aimed at streamlining federal agencies that support business and trade, the White House said it will soon create a new website, Business.USA.gov, to help American businesses and entrepreneurs better navigate government services designed to help them. "The goal is to make ...

Another Win for Verizon

January 11, 2012 FROM NEXTGOV Verizon is having a good week, as far as federal contracting goes. As my colleague Bob Brewin pointed out in What's Brewin' yesterday, Verizon stands to benefit significantly from the Pentagon's focus on the Asia-Pacific region. Now today the U.S. Postal Service is giving the company -- the largest communications ...

GPS Takes Another Hit

December 19, 2011 FROM NEXTGOV LightSquared isn't the only entity posing a significant threat to the Global Positioning System. The Christian Science Monitor, in an exclusive interview with an Iranian engineer, reported that Iranians used a spoofing technique to make the drone "land on its own where we wanted it to, without having to crack ...