The intricacies of cybersecurity can be difficult enough for IT experts to explain to each other. How effective are IT executives and the federal government at explaining it to the public? Not as good as they could be, said public relations expert Sandy Levine.
With a burgeoning backlog of patent applications for review, the Patent and Trademark Office recently proposed hiring 1,000 new examiners each year for the next five years.
Internet Protocol version 6 will be worth the pain. Change without warrant is for naught. But in technology, change is not only better, it's inevitable.
Homeland Security Department Secretary Michael Chertoff answered one big border surveillance question last month by naming the Boeing Co. as the prime contractor for the Secure Border Initiative Network. But in answering that question, he raised a raft of new ones.
There is no magic bullet for executive branch requirements for protecting personal data being accessed and downloaded by government employees. But pieces of the puzzle are coming into place.
The Homeland Security Department has installed radio frequency identification device readers capable of receiving data from electronic passports at San Francisco International Airport.
Attention from the state, regional and community levels is being paid to the idea of exchanging health information electronically and work being done on policies to improve health care.
The House is scheduled today to begin considering a final agreement on the fiscal 2007 Homeland Security Department spending bill, which increases the department's budget to $34.8 billion ? a $2.3 billion increase.
