TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
CBP Could Escape Furloughs
Feds Flock to TSP's L Funds
EIG 2013 as Told by Your Tweets
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
The Big Squeeze: Defense Under Sequester
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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.
General Dynamics Drops $1 Billion for Health IT Firm
August 16, 2011
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The Washington Post is reporting that Falls Church-based General Dynamics will acquire Arlington-based Vangent, a major player in the health IT market. As the Post describes it: "The deal comes as defense contractors, anticipating reduced Pentagon spending, particularly on large equipment, look to diversify. Many are seeking to expand their ...
Texas Miracles, Shady Rats and Campaign Liabilities
August 15, 2011
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The September issue of Vanity Fair magazine has an interesting piece about the growing problem of Chinese hacking. In "Enter the Cyber Dragon," author Michael Joseph Gross chronicles China's extensive campaign of cyber-espionage, the most recent iteration of which has been dubbed Operation Shady RAT, in a reference to the ...
Critical Care
August 15, 2011
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It seems that every week we learn about another data breach of a government or commercial network. If you think you've come through these assaults unscathed, you're wrong. Even if you haven't seen your diplomatic cables posted on WikiLeaks or your Gmail account hasn't been hijacked (to your knowledge), even ...
Critical Care
August 15, 2011 Agencies face enormous obstacles in securing vital networks, but failure isn't an option. It seems that every week we learn about another data breach of a government or commercial network. If you think you've come through these assaults unscathed, you're wrong. Even if you haven't seen your diplomatic cables posted ...
Analyzing London Riot Video Will Be Daunting, Just Ask the Pentagon
August 10, 2011
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Alexis Madrigal has an excellent blog post over at The Atlantic exploring what the London police can learn from the Vancouver police department's investigation into riots there last June. He notes that investigators in Vancouver had to review about 1,500 hours of video, compared with an estimated 66,567 hours of ...
Facebook Faux Pas
August 1, 2011 Agencies need to do a better job of explaining to employees how to use social media sites without compromising personal information or data associated with their jobs, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. While the report focused on how agencies are leveraging Twitter, Facebook and similar ...
Need a Primer for Proper Facebook Conduct? GAO Thinks You Do.
July 29, 2011
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Agencies need to do a better job of explaining to employees how to use social media sites without compromising personal information or data associated with their jobs, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office. While the report focused on how agencies are leveraging Twitter, Facebook and similar ...
Reports Highlight Promise and Pitfalls of White House IT Goals
July 26, 2011
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An influential tech industry group on Tuesday released a report with recommendations for developing and deploying cloud services across the federal government, "with the ultimate goal of fostering innovation and economic growth, ensuring U.S. competitiveness, and creating jobs." The Commission on the Leadership Opportunity in U.S. Deployment of the Cloud, ...
Not so Fast on that Select Cybersecurity Panel
July 15, 2011
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The ink was barely dry on Sen. John McCain's letter to Senate leaders requesting creation of a select committee on cybersecurity and electronic intelligence leaks before Sens. Joe Lieberman and Susan Collins jointly issued a letter Wednesday rejecting the move. McCain said a select committee is needed to craft and ...
Misconfigured software poses significant security challenges
June 21, 2011
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Several years ago, when John Gilligan was serving as the chief information officer at the Air Force, he experienced what he calls a major turning point in how he viewed security. Along with the other services, the Air Force was subject to annual penetration analyses by the National Security Agency, ...
