Ideas

What If We're All the CTO?

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Wall Street Loses, Google Gains in Government

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Cat's in the Bag!

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Kind of Virtual

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Commandant Exhorts: Figure Out Facebook

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Modernization

Air Force opens bidding for virtual air base

MyBase will place personnel in a geospatially accurate training room, where instructors will teach both technical and flying missions.

Digital Government

'Getting' Gustav

Playing hurricane's data gives viewers insight

Digital Government

Tech consultant says get serious about games

Virtual tools aren't just for entertainment anymore as agencies, businesses adopt them for training.

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'YouTubing' Training Games

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Most Companies Use Games; Shouldn't You?

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Digital Government

Collaborative Internet tools making inroads into intel agencies

Problems and skepticism still abound, but continued information sharing should win over doubters, says ODNI official.

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Wii Fit for Battle

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Virtues of Virtual Workplaces

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Digital Government

DHS joins the virtual world

New classroom platform will provide real-time communications and will be integrated with a National Guard system that provides training for first responders.

Digital Government

NAPA launches collaboration Web site

The Collaboration Project aims to attract leaders to use interactive social tools "to solve government's complex problems."

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Virtual Spying

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Get Mooned

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Modernization

Agencies getting serious about virtual worlds

No longer seen as a distraction, feds are creating simulated online communities to train and converse for work.

Digital Government

Forrester predicts a flat year for tech

Agencies expected to launch fewer projects in the next couple years. The firm predicts only in 2010 will funds shake loose for the priorities of a new administration.

Digital Government

Consider computer games as training, say congressional researchers

Report raises the possibility of using virtual worlds as battlefields.