Treasury tracks terror financing
The Treasury Department conducts searches of selected international financial transactions transmitted through an organization that provides most of the world's secure financial messaging.
VA attorney interpreted CIO out of enforcement
The Veterans Affairs Department's top attorney defends his legal opinion that federal law does not require that the department CIO have authority over enforcement of IT security.
VA's IT centralization could slow security fixes
Lawmakers and oversight authorities are expressing doubts that the way the Veterans Affairs Department is centralizing its IT organization will ensure that security is marbled throughout its agencies.
VA to offer free credit monitoring
The Veterans Affairs Department will provide one year of free credit monitoring to people whose sensitive personal information may have been stolen in the recent theft of sensitive data from a former employee's home.
Veterans' benefits agency tightens data security
The Veterans Benefits Administration is taking additional steps to ensure that veterans' data is secure.
VA expands online burial data features
The Veterans Affairs Department has made available online the grave locations of more than 3 million veterans and dependents buried in national cemeteries.
DHS Special Report | Component approach aiding IT infrastructure consolidation
Until last October, the Homeland Security Department did not even have a global access directory'a basic requirement for a large organization. Employees couldn't find each other if they were in different DHS directorates. Now, secretary Michael Chertoff can send an all-department e-mail with a few select addresses instead of sending it to each component agency and ordering it to cascade through those organizations.
VA awards record contract to service-disabled, vet-owned business
The Veterans Affairs Department awarded MicroTech LLC a contract worth up to $365 million for Microsoft products and services over six years.
DHS Special Report | Learning Tool Takes Some of the Load Off of Port Personnel
The automated scene understanding tool being developed for the Coast Guard amounts to more than another pair of eyes. It collects data on vessel movements, compares them with established parameters and alerts operators of any anomalies. That frees staff to make decisions on what to do about it.
DHS Special Report | Coast Guard Fine-Tunes Its Harbor Watch
Under the cloak of night, a vessel quietly floated in the channel waters at the entrance to the busy cargo, cruise and petroleum seaport of Port Everglades in Fort Lauderdale, Fla.
IG gives GSA passing grade on financials
The General Services Administration has made enough improvements in financial management to satisfy its inspector general and likely keep its biggest customer, the Defense Department.
USDA provides online agricultural tools
The Agriculture Department has made available a Web-based energy estimator for irrigation to help producers manage their irrigation water resources more efficiently.
Interior's NBC doubles shared services for federal savings board
The Interior Department's National Business Center will provide shared services under both the Financial Management and Human Resources lines of business to the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board starting next month.
Subcontractor put VA health records at risk: IG
The incident occurred because Veterans Health Administration lost control over its patient information once the information traveled outside the VA system firewall, according to the Veterans Affairs Department's inspector general.
VA IT security gaps extend to contractors
The Veterans Affairs Department has been investigating allegations that an offshore medical transcription subcontractor last year threatened to expose 30,000 veterans' electronic health records on the Internet in a payment dispute with a VA contractor.
IRS technology chief Grams resigns
IRS CIO Todd Grams has resigned from the IRS effective next month to become the chief financial officer at the National Institute of Standards and Technology.
HHS provides $1.2b for bioterrorism preparedness
The Health and Human Services Department has made $1.2 billion available to states, territories and four metropolitan areas to strengthen their response to terrorism and other public health emergencies.
VA may need to create claims process: Buyer
Rep. Steve Buyer wants the Veterans Affairs Department to be prepared to mitigate any damage to veterans if their personal information is misused.
GSA cleans up processes that led to $900m accounting problems
The General Services Administration has changed policies and standardized processes so it can achieve a clean audit this year after statements about its accounting of $900 million in budgetary resources sank last year's audit.
Active-duty personnel at risk from VA data breach
The Veterans Affairs Department said that personal information on as many as 1.1 million active-duty military personnel was included in electronic data that was taken in the burglary of the home of a VA data analyst.
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