Track Federal IT Spending Online

Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra unveiled the IT Dashboard yesterday. The focus of this website is providing detail on all information technology investments by the various federal agencies. It’s a graphics-intensive effort, with charts and graphs at your disposal to help examine individual projects, individual agencies, and comparisons across projects and agencies.

What’s covered by the website, according to the FAQ:

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Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - June 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 6)

Here are some items in the June issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. As always, much of the content in CACM is premium content, and free content one month may require a subscription or fee the next. You need to be a member of ACM or subscriber to CACM to access such content online.

News

Micromedicine to the Rescue, Don Monroe

A description of how potential advances in targeted drug delivery can be facilitated through molecular-scale computing.

Content Control, Leah Hoffman

Notes on advances in access control technology, one means of combatting intellectual property theft.
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USACM Selects Final Council Members

As part of its elevation from committee to council, USACM recently completed elections for at-large seats on its Council. The voting members of the Council are the USACM Chair, any Co-Chairs, the ACM President or President’s Designee, Chairs of all Subcommittees, and six At Large members.

The full membership of USACM Council is as follows:

• Eugene Spafford (USACM Chair)
• Annie Antón (USACM Vice-Chair)
• Edward Felten (USACM Vice-Chair)
• Bill Aspray (At Large)
• Charles Brownstein (Former USACM Chair)
• Lorrie Cranor (At Large)
• Jeremy Epstein (At Large)
• Stuart Feldman (ACM Past President/President’s Designee), ex officio
• Juan Gilbert (At Large)
• Andrew Grosso (Law Subcommitee Chair)
• Harry Hochheiser (Accessibility Subcommittee Chair)
• Jim Horning (At Large)
• Paul Hyland (Intellectual Property Subcommittee Chair)
• Douglas W. Jones (Voting Subcommitee Chair)
• Jeanna Matthews (SIG Representative)
• David Robinson, (Open Govenrment Subcommittee Chair)
• Bobby Schnabel (Chair, Education Policy Committee), ex officio
• Stuart S. Shapiro (Secuirty and Privacy Subcommittee Chair)
• Barbara Simons (Former USACM Chair)
• Ollie Smoot (At Large)
• Emil Volcheck (SIG Representative)
• John White (ACM CEO), ex officio
• Cameron Wilson (ACM Director of Public Policy), ex officio

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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 22

June 25

Hearing:

The House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity activity at NIST and the Department of Homeland Security.
2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn Building

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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 15

June 16

Hearing:

The Research and Science Education and the Technology and Innovation Subcommittees of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a joint hearing on agency responses to the recent cybersecurity review. Witnesses include personnel from the National Science Foundation, the National Institute for Standards and Technology, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, and the Department of Homeland Security.
2 p.m., 2318 Rayburn Building

Meeting:

The Department of Health and Human Services’ Health IT Policy Committee will meet. The public can participate via web or audioconference. Click the link for more details.
10 a.m., 200 Independence SW,

June 18

Hearing:

The Commerce, Trade and Consumer Protection Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on behavioral advertising.

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House Science and Technology Committee Starts Hearings on Cybersecurity

On June 10 the Research and Science Education subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee held a hearing on cybersecurity. This is the first of three planned hearings prompted by the Obama Administration’s recent cybersecurity review. On June 16 the Research and Science Education subcommittee will hold a hearing with the Technology and Innovation subcommittee on the Administration’s review, and on June 25, the Technology and Innovation subcommittee will hold a hearing focusing on efforts at the Department of Homeland Security and the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

The witnesses for the June 10 hearing were:

Seymour Goodman - professor of international affairs and computing, and co-director, Information Security Center and Center for International Strategy, Technology and Policy, Georgia Institute of Technology

Liesyl Franz - vice president, Information Security and Global Public Policy, TechAmerica

Anita D’Amico - director, Secure Decisions Division, Applied Visions

Fred Schneider - professor of computer science, Department of Computer Science, Cornell University

Timothy Brown - vice president and chief architect, CA Security Management

Both Drs. Goodman and Schneider are members of USACM.

You can access the webcast and related hearing materials. online.
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of June 8

June 10

Hearing:
The Research and Science Education subcommittee of the House Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing on research and development in cybersecurity.
10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn Building

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Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - May 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 5)

Here are some items in the May issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. Remember, much of the material in CACM is considered premium content, and what may be free content during the month of the issue might slip behind a password wall. You will need to be a member of ACM or a subscriber to CACM in order to access this material online.

The May issues featured the first series of excerpts from Blog@CACM, where 13 bloggers regularly write on a variety of issues. The associated blogroll includes the ACM Tech Policy Weblog.

News

Matchmaker, Matchmaker, David Essex

A short update on the state of computational advertising, the algorithms that help place advertisements, which has policy implications with respect to privacy of consumer information.

Viewpoints

Law and Technology
The Network Neutrality Debate Hits Europe, Pierre Larouche

The author provides the European perspective on the network neutrality debate, noting the different policy issues and technical constraints that make that debate different from what is happening in the United States.
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CFP Panel on Voting and the Internet

Yesterday, during the Computers, Freedom and Privacy Conference (CFP), USACM coordinated a panel to speak on voting and using the internet. It was chaired by Ed Felten of Princeton, who is also Vice-Chair of USACM. The panelists where Amy Bjelland and Craig Stender from the State of Arizona, Susan Dzieduszucka-Suinat of the Overseas Vote Foundation, Avi Rubin from Johns Hopkins University, and Alec Yasinsac from the University of South Alabama. I’ll dispense with an effort to summarize the panel and the discussion, and refer everyone to Ed Felten’s blog entry on the panel, over at Freedom to Tinker.
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ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.5 (June 4, 2009)

CONTENTS

[1] Newsletter Highlights
[2] ACM Co-sponsors Hill Briefing on Computer Science Education
[3] USACM Elevated to Council Status in ACM
[4] Congress Moves to Strengthen Computer Science Education
[5] Obama Administration Releases Cybersecurity Review
[6] Obama Administration Puts Open Government Blog Online
[7] Advisory Board Urges Updates to US Privacy Policies
[8] About USACM

[An archive of all previous editions of Washington Update is available at
http://www.acm.org/usacm/update/]
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EAC Announces Proposed Revisions to 2005 Voluntary Voting System Guidelines

On Monday the Election Assistance Commission (EAC) released a draft of the Voluntary Voting System Guidelines (VVSG) Version 1.1 for public comment. This version of the VVSG is an update of the current version of the VVSG, approved in 2005 and in effect since 2007. The comment period will close in late September, and the EAC plans to release the final edition of VVSG 1.1 in late 2009.

In late 2007 the EAC released a different set of the VVSG, which is now considered VVSG 2.0. USACM submitted comments on those proposed guidelines, and the EAC still intends to release this next iteration at some time in the future. For now, the proposed revisions focus on areas that the EAC and NIST believe will not require significant effort to implement. They cover the following areas:

1) Hardware and software performance benchmarks and test method
2) Software workmanship
3) Test plan and test report
4) TDP and voting equipment user documentation
5) Non-EMC environmental hardware
6) Human factors requirements
7) System security documentation requirements
8) Election records
9) Voter verified paper audit trails (VVPAT)
10) Cryptography
11) External interface requirement
12) EAC requests for interpretation (RFI) decisions
13) General edits

Again, the public comment period will be open until late September. Comments may be submitted electronically, by mail, or via an online comment tool that will be made available sometime during the summer. We’ll post updates to this blog as this process moves forward.

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USACM Elevated to Council Status in ACM

The ACM Executive Council recently elevated its U.S. Public Policy Committee - USACM - to council status. This change reflects ACM’s increasing attention to public policy issues. The elevation to council status will streamline the decision-making processes of USACM both internally and within ACM. As a council, USACM has established subcommittees to work on issue areas of consistent and continued interest: voting, privacy and security, computing and the law, intellectual property, accessibility and digital government. The Education Policy Committee continues as an independent entity from the new US Public Policy Council.

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President Obama Releases Cybersecurity Review

UPDATE 6/4 - USACM issued this press release outlining its comments on the cybersecurity review. USACM Chair Eugene Spafford noted that while “the President hit many of the right notes in his remarks” the report missed “any emphasis on funding, tools or support for better law enforcement” as well as any discussion of research.

ORIGINAL POST - 5/29
Today the Obama Administration released its cybersecurity review, a 60 day review of federal cybersecurity activity headed by Melissa Hathaway and completed in late April. The report is available online, along with the remarks made this morning by the President. Additional material on the review can be found at http://www.whitehouse.gov/CyberReview/.

Reviewing the report, it seems clear that this is the first step in what may be a years-long process in shifting current federal cybersecurity efforts. The document is a roadmap more than a list of specific policy recommendations. The White House will be taking a more active role in this policy area, with a cybersecurity official based in the White House interacting with the national security and economic advisory groups that work with the President. Previously cybersecurity efforts at the federal level have been organized to emphasize national security and homeland security impacts, leaving economic concerns far behind. With the costs of bad cybersecurity increasing, this shift is a good sign.

Besides the changes in federal organization of cybersecurity, the report goes on to make general recommendations for increasing education and awareness in the public (both individuals and corporations), fostering pubic-private partnerships, and increasing information sharing about cybersecurity vulnerabilities. This last point has been a source of tension, and could be one of the larger challenges moving forward.

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Federal Advisory Board Recommends Updates to Nation’s Privacy Policies

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) recently released a report to the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on the need to update the nation’s privacy policies. Since the Privacy Act of 1974, there has been little or no government-wide guidance on privacy. Individual agencies have been responsible for the privacy of their data, with widely varying results. That absence of guidance and the significant changes in technology since 1974 have prompted the ISPAB’s report. Their recommendations:

Amend the Privacy Act and the E-Government Act of 2002 to:
1) Improve government privacy notices
2) Update the definition of a system of records to reflect changes in technology and use of data; and
3) Clearly cover commercial data sources.

Improve government leadership on privacy by:
1) Establishing a government Chief Privacy Officer within OMB,
2) Regularly update Privacy Act guidance,
3) Hire Chief Privacy Officers at all agencies with Chief Financial Officers, and
4) Establish a Chief Privacy Officers Council.

Make other changes to privacy policies, including:
1) Updating federal cookie policy,
2) Issue privacy guidance on agency use of location information,
3) Work with US-CERT to create interagency information on data loss across the government, and
4) Public reporting on use of Social Security Numbers.

More details on each of these recommendations can be found in the report.

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White House To Try Online Brainstorming for Open Government

One of the earliest official actions of the Obama Administration was to issue a memorandum requesting a set of recommendations to inform an Open Government Directive. USACM has expressed interest in technical principles and standards that would support such an effort, and released a set of recommendations to that effect. In late May the White House set up an Open Government Blog and issued a request for public comment to inform this Directive. Comments can be sent in to the Open Government Blog, via email or regular mail, and are due June 19.

Supplementing this public comment period is a brainstorming session that will attempt to use a weblog and a wiki to crowdsource recommendations. The public could submit ideas online and vote on the best ideas. That phase closed today. Starting June 3 on the Open Government Blog the most compelling ideas will be posted for comment. Starting June 15 a wiki will be created to draft recommendations collaboratively. This last phase is a new development compared to other online collaborative efforts the Obama Administration has used (and the campaign before them). It remains to be seen how effective a wiki can be when opened nationwide.

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Education Policy Hill Briefing Highlights Computer Science Education

A Hill briefing co-sponsored by the ACM Education Policy Committee, with the support of the House STEM Education Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus covered the challenges and successes of computer science education at the K-12 level. The well-attended event (approximately 70 people) showcased a pilot program in the Los Angeles Unified School District that will soon be expanded into 20 additional schools. Education Policy Committee members Robert Schnabel, Chris Stephenson, and Joanna Goode spoke at the event, and Representative Vernon Ehlers also gave remarks to the assembled Congressional and agency staff.

Schnabel set the stage for the event, describing how computer science education often falls through the cracks of the other STEM disciplines (science, technology, engineering and mathematics). Chris Stephenson discussed the problems computer science has had in establishing itself at the K-12 level. Standards for certifying computer science teachers vary widely from state to state, as does the classification of computer science courses (whether or not they count toward graduation requirements, and in what field). What can happen is that a computer science teacher may need to earn certification as a business teacher in one state, but a math or science teacher in another state. Where courses are concerned, computer science could be counted as a math course, a science course, or a course in some other subject matter. This makes it harder for students to plan their high school coursework. Additionally, if a student is seeking a college prep courseload, they aren’t likely to take a computer science course that is counted as an elective or otherwise won’t be credited as one of the math or science courses they need for graduation.
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NITRD Bill Amended to Increase Emphasis on Computer Science Education

Today the House passed by voice vote H.R. 2020, which is a bill to amend the High Performance Computing Act. Part of this law establishes the National Information Technology Research and Development Program, or NITRD. NITRD helps coordinate national efforts in computer science and information technology through strategic planning and other coordinating activities. The new bill reflects recent advances in computer science, and places a greater emphasis on NITRD supporting computer science education. Supporting documents of the House Science and Technology Committee, which has jurisdiction over the bill and NITRD, reiterate and expand on this emphasis on computer science education.

ACM’s Education Policy Committee submitted a letter in support of the bill. The committee appreciated several parts of the legislation, especially the parts intended to improve computer science education (Section 6 of the bill). The new bill requires that NITRD develop plans for improving the education pipeline for computer science and the diversity of students in that pipeline. What is even more encouraging is very strong language in the Committee Report on the bill. To quote directly, the House Science and Technology Committee “feels NITRD should play a key role in strengthening computer science education, particularly at the K-12 level.” From the report:
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ACM Co-Sponsors Hill Briefing on Education

On May 20th, ACM will co-sponsor a briefing on Capitol Hill with the House STEM Education Caucus and the Congressional Black Caucus. The event, “Bringing Innovative Computing Curriculum Across the Digital Divide,” will be held from 12-1:30 p.m. at B339 Rayburn House Office Building. The event is open to the public, but space is limited. If you are interested in attending, please send your R.S.V.P. to Vivian Chu (chu.vivian@hq.acm.org).

The briefing will cover the state of computer science education at the K-12 level and an exciting new computing curriculum and teacher preparation course funded by the National Science Foundation and Microsoft. These materials are focused on encouraging more participation by women and other underrepresented groups in computing, as well as brining high-quality computer science education to the K-12 level.

The speakers at the briefing are three members of ACM’s Education Policy Committee, which has focused on computing education at the K-12 level.

Dr. Robert Schnabel is the Dean of the School of Informatics at Indiana University
Dr. Chris Stephenson is the Executive Director of the Computer Science Teachers Association
Dr. Joanna Goode is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon, and one of the co-authors of the “Exploring Computer Science” course that is the focus of the briefing.

In addition, three members of Congress are expected to participate:

Rep. Vernon Ehlers (R-Michigan)
Rep. Eddie Bernice Johnson (D-Texas)
Rep. Danny Davis (D-Illinois)

Again, the event is open to the public. Please R.S.V.P. to Vivian Chu at chu.vivian@hq.acm.org.

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ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.4 (May 6, 2009)

CONTENTS

[1] Newsletter Highlights
[2] Proposed Legislation Would Expand Federal Reach Into Cybersecurity
[3] White House Cybersecurity Review Complete
[4] U.S. Government’s Chief Technology Officer Announced
[5] Federal Trade Commission Proposes Electronic Health Records Breach Rules
[6] President Obama Addresses The National Academies On His Policy Goals For Science
[7] President Obama Announces Key Advisors on Science and Technology
[8] About USACM

[An archive of all previous editions of Washington Update is available at
http://www.acm.org/usacm/update/]
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President Obama Addresses the National Academies

On Monday, President Obama spoke before the National Academies during the National Academy of Sciences’ Annual meeting. Both audio and video of the address are available from the Academies, and from the White House. A transcript can be found on Whitehouse.gov.

The address was noteworthy in part because he was only the fourth sitting President to address the Academy’s annual meeting since it was chartered in 1863. It was also noteworthy for the policy goals stated in the address. They include:
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Policy Highlights from Communications of the ACM - April 2009 (Vol. 52, No. 4)

Items in the April issue of Communications of the ACM that have policy relevance. Remember, much of the material in CACM is considered premium content. You will need to be a member of ACM or a subscriber to CACM in order to access this material online.

News

IT Ecosystem in Peril (full article), Alan Joch

A summary of the findings and consequences of The National Academies’ report (from January of this year) on the impacts of changes in the Information Technology R&D Ecosystem. In addition to research funding, the infrastructure that supports information technology research and development in the United States.
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President Obama Announces New PCAST Members

Yesterday President Obama announced the full membership of his President’s Council of Advisers on Science and Technology (PCAST). This is an advisory body that works with the Office of Science and Technology Policy (OSTP) to provide advice to the President. More than a few of the new members have previous government experience. There will be three co-chairs of PCAST: John Holdren, Director of the OSTP, Harold Varmus, President and CEO of Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, and Eric Lander, Director of the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard (and part of the biology faculty of each university). While there is a greater emphasis on life science fields in the background of this PCAST, there are still members with computing experience:

Craig Mundie is the Chief Research and Strategy Officer at Microsoft
William Press is a Professor of Computer Science at the University of Texas
Eric Schmidt is the Chief Executive Officer of Google

The other members of PCAST are:
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Obama Administration Appoints a Chief Technology Officer

One of the Administration’s campaign promises was to create the position of Chief Technology Officer. While the specific job description was vague during the campaign, the general idea was for this office to encourage more effective use of technology across government. After appointing a Chief Information Officer - Vivek Kundra - the President selected Aneesh Chopra, Secretary of Technology for the Commonwealth of Virginia. As Chief Technology Officer, Mr. Chopra will serve as both an Assistant to the President and as Associate Director for Technology at the Office of Science and Technology Policy. The second position will require Senate confirmation, but Mr. Chopra can start in the first position once he ties up his responsibilities with Virginia.

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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 27

April 28

Hearing:
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity.
10 a.m., 342 Dirksen Building

The Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security Subcommittee of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee will hold a hearing on digital government.
2:30 p.m., 342 Dirksen Building

April 29

Markup:
The House Science and Technology Committee will markup pending legislation, including bills on the national information technology research program and STEM education.
10 a.m., 2318 Rayburn Building

May 1

Hearing:
The Communications, Technology and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on cybersecurity.
1 p.m., 2322 Rayburn Building

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White House Cybersecurity Review Complete; Public Announcement Expected Soon

The Obama Administration recently finished a 60-day review of federal cybersecurity efforts. Melissa Hathaway, Acting White House Cyberspace Director, indicated in public remarks (scroll down for video) at the RSA computer security conference that the report is currently with the President for his review, and should be made public soon.

As might be expected during the course of a review kept out of the public eye, speculation has run rampant over the last two months. The recent resignation of the director of the Homeland Security Department’s National Cybersecurity Center raised concerns that the National Security Agency was expanding its authority in this area. The NSA Director downplayed those reports, noting that the agency has cybersecurity responsibility for the U.S. military. Civilian cybersecurity responsibility is currently with a division of the Department of Homeland Security.

While Hathaway’s remarks (PDF) were relatively detail-free, there is an expectation that the White House will seek greater responsibility for cybersecurity. As Brian Krebs notes at Security Fix, the speech contained an emphasis on cybersecurity and the economy that might be better handled from the White House than more narrowly defined mission agencies. In any event, what changes will take place, if any, should be known within a couple of weeks.

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Federal Trade Commission Issues Proposed Breach Notification Rule

On April 16 the Federal Trade Commission issued a proposed rule requiring entities to notify consumers in the event that the security of their electronic health information is breached. The FTC is seeking public comment between now and June 1st. You can read more about the comment process by reading the Federal Register Notice or visiting the online comment page. The proposed rule is prompted in part by provisions of the recent recovery legislation concerning health information technology. Part of those sections requires the FTC to prepare a report (in connection with the Department of Health and Human Services) on potential privacy, security, and breach notification requirements for vendors of health information and related entities. The proposed rule would likely run until this report issues guidelines about breach notification requirements.
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Hill Tech Happenings, Week of April 20

April 23

Hearing:
The Communications, Technology and the Internet Subcommittee of the House Energy and Commerce Committee will hold a hearing on recent developments in communications networks and consumer privacy.
10 a.m., 2322 Rayburn Building

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Broad-based Cybersecurity Bill Introduced

Senator Rockefeller (D-West Virginia) introduced last week a bill that would increase the role of the federal government in cybersecurity. S. 773 (text not yet available on THOMAS), in its present form, would mark a significant change in the government’s role in cybersecurity. Provisions of the bill include having the National Institute of Standards and Technology developing cybersecurity standards, requiring the National Telecommunications and Information Administration develop a secure internet addressing system, increasing federal support of cybersecurity research, and developing a periodic review of national cybersecurity similar to the Quadrennial Defense Review. Initial reaction to the bill has been mixed, with some suggesting that the increased role of the federal government in cybersecurity goes too far. The Obama Administration’s 60 day cybersecurity review is scheduled to end soon, and what the Administration wants to have happen may prompt revisions in the bill.

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ACM Washington Update, Vol. 13.3 (April 3, 2009)

CONTENTS

[1] Newsletter Highlights
[2] Computing Groups Call for More Focus on Computing Education
[3] 2008 ACM Turing Award Recognizes Dr. Barbara Liskov
[4] USACM Seeks Details On Recovery.Gov To Maximize Public Information
[5] Final 2009 Budget Provide Increases for Science Agencies
[6] Internet Privacy Bill on Drawing Board for this Congress
[7] Secretary of Homeland Security Puts REAL ID on Back Burner
[8] About USACM

[An archive of all previous editions of Washington Update is available at
http://www.acm.org/usacm/update/]
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