Cybersecurity
Interior loses CD with personal data for 7,500 federal employees
The Interior Department's National Business Center in Denver hasn't found a compact disc that contains personally identifiable information for 7,500 federal employees
Cybersecurity
Interior names new CIO
Bernard Mazer will replace Sanjeev “Sonny” Bhagowalia as Interior's chief information officer.
Digital Government
GSA splits Citizen Services, hires Interior's Bhagowalia
The General Services Administration created a new office to identify and apply new technologies to government operations and service delivery. To help with the effort, GSA has hired the Interior Department's chief information officer.
Digital Government
8 ways to tame mobile devices in the workplace
Experts offer tips for controlling costs and securing your agency's mobile devices.
Digital Government
Mobile devices roam the digital Wild West
Some government offices are centralizing mobile management to reduce costs and security risks.
Digital Government
Interior's business center enhances cloud offering
Cloud services provider gives users access to collaboration and social media software.
People
Interagency acquisition office offers cloud-based order monitoring
Acquisition Services Directorate launches the Electronic Servicing Environment as a secure way for clients to monitor in real-time AQD’s handling of their projects.
Digital Government
Tremors generate tweets in new USGS earthquake program
The Twitter Earthquake Detector (TED) program is an exploratory effort intended to gather real-time earthquake-related messages, by having people who actually feel a tremor or observe its effects to tweet their observations.
Digital Government
Bill to expand geospatial imagery passes House
The House voted to provide $10 million per year through 2019 for a grant program to expand access to geospatial imagery.
Cybersecurity
Performance survey gives low grades to Interior, FEMA, Forest Service
Managers at the Interior Department, FEMA and the U.S. Forest Service got low rankings for using performance management data, according to the GAO.
Modernization
Where in the world is the geospatial data?
Policy changes and new technologies can help agencies better manage geospatial data.
Cybersecurity
Bills would kill DHS satellite surveillance office
A senior House Democrat has introduced legislation to eliminate a DHS-run program to make intelligence and military satellite imagery more available to civilian agencies for domestic purposes.
Cybersecurity
IG: Interior fails to track computers
The department's IG found that nearly 20 percent of more than 2,500 computers there could not be specifically located.
Cybersecurity
Interior Department to upgrade disaster monitoring
The U.S. Geological Survey will upgrade volcano, earthquake, and flood monitoring and warning systems.
Modernization
IG: Interior's networks weren't secure in 2008
The Interior Department apparently sent data to networks controlled by hostile countries in January 2008, according to a just-released inspector general's report.
Modernization
Federal 100 winner: Sanjeev Bhagowalia
Bhagowalia overcame legal and other barriers to return the Bureau of Indian Affairs and its 5,500 users to the Internet after nearly seven years of darkness.
Digital Government
Federal 100 winner: Colleen Coggins
Coggins pulled double duty, overseeing the Interior Department's mission-supporting transformation plans while also working as chairwoman of the CIO Council’s Federal Segment Architecture Working Group.
Acquisition
Acquisition centers try to cope with a flood of money
GSA, Interior offices are getting ready to help agencies manage stimulus-related spending.
People
Devaney to oversee recovery funds
The Interior Department inspector general, who uncovered the department’s dealings with disgraced lobbyist Jack Abramoff, will monitor economic stimulus outlays for waste and abuse.
Cybersecurity
No one is 100 percent secure
The data breach at the Federal Aviation Administration, recently lauded for its cybersecurity practices, shows that how agencies respond to incidents is as important as their work to prevent them.
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