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  • When can agencies monitor your email? FDA case sparks debate over policy
  • GAO: Outdated technology slows OPM retirement process
  • FDA whistle-blowers' lawsuit raises questions about email surveillance
  • Subcontractor indicted in Army Corps contracting fraud case
  • More than 4,000 vets potentially affected by VA data breach
  • No big cuts anticipated for Pentagon's IT budget, deputy CIO says
  • OPM outlines planned fixes to pension delays
  • NSA crafting cyber guidelines
  • Administration wants to increase feds' use of mobile technology
  • GSA outlines requirements, schedule for cloud vendor reviews
  • Deepwater is dead, says Coast Guard official
  • New director named at Defense Information Systems Agency
  • Expected DoD shift on data protection could boost use of wireless devices
  • News briefs
  • Cloud security reviews give priority to GSA vendors
  • Congress gives DoD green light on cyber attacks
  • Flat IT budget forces new approaches
  • Navy delays RFP on NMCI replacement
  • New program will assist agencies in adopting cloud services
  • Obama orders agencies to improve records management policies
  • News Digest: Nov. 28
  • DoD outlines data center consolidation plan
  • More health plans offering online patient records
  • Report recommends independent agency to oversee health IT
  • Joint office gets boost in efforts to integrate DoD, VA health care records
  • OPM cites improvements on problem-plagued USAJobs upgrade
  • New reforms push more IT sharing, innovation
  • Software tool cuts Army facility's classified leaks by 85 percent
  • Mass. senator calls for outsourcing USAJobs
  • Report: Cyber attacks targeted U.S. satellites
  • VA preps networks for linkup to as many as 100,000 tablets
  • IT spending hits the brakes
  • GSA urged to modify its contract requirements for Web-based email
  • Flat IT funding threatens cloud, mobile computing initiatives
  • Closing data centers yields smaller payoff
  • Agencies: Data center consolidation savings far less than estimated
  • New app gives VA doctors instant patient information
  • Oracle settles $200M claim of failing to offer government best price
  • Agencies accelerate data center closures
  • Feds seek input on cybersecurity standards for industry
  • VA prepares to purchase iPads, iPhones
  • USAJobs website to get new features
  • For records management, agencies see clouds in the forecast
  • Accenture pays $64 million to settle whistle-blower case
  • Study: Contractors paid far more than feds for comparable work
  • Much data processed by hand, despite billions spent on IT
  • USAJobs website to be renovated in October
  • Governments cut computing costs in the cloud
  • Navy, Marine Corps keeping closer tabs on IT money
  • Report recommends improvements in open government initiatives
  • Programs aim to get the word out when cyber attacks occur
  • DoD to expand cyber program with industry
  • Tight budgets prompt IT cutbacks
  • Army to field tablets to manage medical records on battlefield
  • DoD, VA renew joint approach to health IT
  • Navy, Marine Corps under orders to slash IT spending
  • IBM files protest challenging VA's awards on IT contract
  • OMB outlines expanded roles for federal CIOs
  • OMB: VanRoekel to continue White House's IT agenda
  • Black Hat shows hacker exploits getting more sophisticated
  • Analyst: $120 billion in federal purchases between now and Oct. 1
  • Late contractor payments could cost government millions
  • Contractors may not get paid if debt deal isn't reached
  • Feds plan more competition for IT business
  • Industry group urges improvements in cloud policies
  • Head of cybersecurity agency resigns
  • 373 data centers to be closed by next year
  • White House lays out strategy for IT recycling
  • Agencies to close 373 data centers by 2012
  • IT dispute prompts ouster of senior official at SSA
  • Deputy Defense secretary releases cyber threat plan
  • Lawmakers tune in to social media
  • iPad demand accelerates security policies
  • Online intelligence library fosters collaboration among agencies
  • OPM works to eliminate hard-copy employee records
  • VA awards $12 billion in IT contracts
  • DoD rule would require contractors to protect unclassified info
  • For road warriors, offices are on the go
  • Officials seek to halt network they say would interfere with GPS
  • British police arrest suspected LulzSec ‘hacktivist' leader
  • Tight budgets provide opportunity for positive change, consultants say
  • Thousands of websites on the chopping block
  • News Digest: June 20
  • Feds may share cyber threat details with companies, DoD No. 2 says
  • Federal CIO Kundra to step down in August
  • Obama administration aims to shut down thousands of federal websites
  • Intel agencies aim to automate secrecy
  • OMB twists arms to push cloud projects
  • Scaled-down IT contract awarded for planned DHS headquarters
  • FBI reviewing hacking of Google accounts
  • Use of electronic health records increases
  • CIA official calls for reform of secrecy system
  • Budget cuts shut down 2 administration Web projects
  • DHS plans expansion of cybersecurity workforce
  • Supreme Court overturns A-12 ruling against contractors
  • GSA prepares to consolidate contractor databases
  • VA's riskiest new recruit: its chief critic
  • Flap over FAPIIS: Site meant to disclose contractor performance ‘worst ... ever'
  • Low-profile agency shines in wake of bin Laden mission
  • Research group predicts less contract spending in 2012
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