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According to the Office of Naval Research, Fire Scout unmanned helicopters will soon be able to distinguish small pirate boats from other vessels. More here. An inspector general’s audit of Veterans Affairs found 15,000 outstanding security risks caused by failures to comply with the Federal Information Security Management Act. More here. The Trusted Cyber Security Purchasing Alliance has been [...]
State Department CIO Susan Swart says that since WikiLeaks the agency has been working on improving security for its classified networks and systems with measures such as auditing and monitoring tools, tagging information with metadata to enable role-based access, and an effort to implement public key infrastructure by summer 2014. More here. The Army awarded Area Processing [...]
After 6 years and $450 million of development, the FBI’s Sentinel, a case management system designed to allow collaboration and a unified, digital workflow, is almost complete. More here. The Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration (TIGTA) reports that while IRS Computer Security Incident Response Center (CSIRC) is overall effective, it needs improvement in some areas. More here. The [...]
Funding by the Office of Naval Research has led to a robot jellyfish that runs on hydrogen and oxygen gas extracted from the sea and could eventually be used as self-sustaining ocean surveillance. More here. The state of Illinois and two regional governments in the Chicago area are offering citizens their open-data repositories in a [...]
The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency’s (DARPA’s) Diverse Accessible Heterogeneous Integration (DAHI) program has committed $80 million to research in advanced microprocessors that combine materials on one chip. More here. The Department of Defense’s Sustainment Center of Excellence (SCoE) has developed a free mobile app to help wounded soldiers and families access information and resources. More [...]
The White House announced $200 million in Big Data R&D funding by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health, the Department of Defense, the Department of Energy, and the U.S. Geological Survey. More here. The NSA-Central Security Service Commercial Solutions Center program was announced as part of the White House’s Big Data initiative to [...]
Cybersecurity gets a 74% increase in the Homeland Security Department’s fiscal 2013 budget request while overall department funding stays constant. More here. The Department of Energy, Justice, and Health and Human Services CISOs agreed that they are all having trouble keeping pace with mobile risk. More here. The Department of Homeland Security and the Department [...]
Recent studies show that roughly 40% of government websites are not yet compliant with regulations requiring them to support DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC). DNSSEC prevents hackers from launching cache poisoning attacks which would redirect visitors away from legitimate sites without approval. More here. The Office of Management and Budget is formulating a new mobile strategy to be released [...]
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