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TOP STORIES

• Battlefield radio program costs could be halved, official says
  Competition could cut the cost of a new broadband battlefield radio in half or more with at least seven vendors interested in the project, Army Brig. Gen. Michael Williamson, program executive officer for the Joint Tactical Radio System, told Nextgov.... full article
• CIO Council's best practices portal remains a work in progress
  The Chief Information Officer Council is working on a Web portal where information technology workers can share best practices in federal IT. But whether that portal is up and running yet isn't entirely clear.... full article
• Obama continues social media push with Hangout
  In his latest attempt to engage the American public directly, President Obama logged on to his Google+ account to hang out. ... full article
• Obama, in Google 'Hangout,' Defends Drone Use, Foreign Aid
  President Obama said on Monday that the United States will continue to make heavy use of military drones in Pakistan and Iraq and defended spending on foreign aid, during an unusual "virtual town hall" on Google's social media site, Google .... full article
• TSA to travelers: Keep taking off those shoes
  The Transportation Security Administration has abandoned a project to buy shoe-scanning devices that would allow airline passengers to waltz through security checkpoints without removing their Uggs and Nikes.... full article
• LightSquared asks regulator to exempt GPS receivers from protection
  Last Friday, one year and a day after the Federal Communications Commission told startup broadband wireless carrier LightSquared it could not begin operations until it demonstrated its network did not cause interference with Global Positioning System receivers, the agency kicked off a review process requested by the company to determine whether GPS receivers are entitled to such protection.... full article
• U.S. lags Finland, Sweden and Israel in cybersecurity
  The United States and China are less prepared for disruptive computer attacks than smaller countries such as Finland and Israel, according to the first-ever ranking of individual nations' cybersecurity postures.... full article
• Former FDA employees sue agency, allege email surveillance
  Six former employees filed suit with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia against the Food and Drug Administration alleging the agency monitored their personal emails warning Congress that risky medical devices had been approved, The Washington Post has reported.... full article
• Feds need to start thinking like hackers
  Most government employees do not consider their usernames and passwords to be hot commodities, but that attitude began to change with a network attack on security contractor HBGary Federal. In early 2011, members of the hacker activist group Anonymous leaked an executive's email exchanges with FBI, Homeland Security Department and other government officials that contained their contact information.... full article

DEFENSE IT: WHAT'S BREWIN'

• VA Needs More Time for Real Time Location System
  The Veterans Affairs Department had originally planned to release the Request for Proposals for its $550 million Real Time Location System procurement last week, but in a Dec. 29 notice pushed it back to on or before Jan. 31.... full article
• Pentagon Fine-Tunes CIO Job, Shuts Down Networks Post
  Teri Takai, the Defense Department's chief information officer, will lose "acquisition specific functions," according to a Jan. 11 memo signed by Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter that was sent to me by a benevolent reader today.... full article

TECH INSIDER

• On Town Halls and Social Media
  The social media town hall has become a staple of the Obama Administration with events conducted via Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and YouTube in the past three years and a Google Plus hangout scheduled for Monday.... full article

WIRED WORKPLACE

• CBO: Highly Educated Feds Earn Less Than Those in Industry
  Federal employees with professional or doctorate degrees earn about 23 percent less than those with the same degrees in the private sector, according to a new report by the Congressional Budget Office.... full article

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HEALTH IT UPDATE

• Report: 'Gaps and Barriers' Slow Health IT
  Health IT holds great promise to improve patient care and reduce costs, but that promise is compromised by "gaps and barriers" to achieving the full benefit of health IT, according to a new report by the Bipartisan Policy Center.... full article

CYBERSECURITY REPORT

• Experts to Industry: Step Up Cyber Spending 9X
  To prevent a digital Pearl Harbor from crippling the country, banks, utilities and communications companies should increase funding for cybersecurity ninefold, according to a new study by Bloomberg Government and the Ponemon Institute LLC to be released today:... full article