Modernization
Recovery board sends its website to the Amazon cloud
Officials expect to save about $750,000 during the next two fiscal years as a result of outsourcing Recovery.gov's backbone to the Elastic Compute Cloud.
Cybersecurity
House panel to consider cybersecurity overhaul
Measure could incorporate language that would link bonuses and awards to success at warding off computer system attacks.
Modernization
Seven tips for journeying into the cloud
What you should know about cloud computing and how to start.
Cybersecurity
Contractor helps groom future cybersecurity specialists
Northrop Grumman contributes money and staff to a competition that will teach high school students to detect and fix computer vulnerabilities.
Digital Government
Industry group seeks to highlight impact of insourcing on small businesses
New coalition, led by former career federal acquisition official, says now is not the time to pull jobs out of the private sector.
Cybersecurity
World leaders crowd source solutions to global security
A European think tank issues 10 recommendations collected during a five-day online dialogue that included thousands of international experts, government policymakers and activists.
Cybersecurity
Making Dashboards Meaningful
Agencies are boosting transparency online, but making data meaningful is the real trick.
Digital Government
Coast Guard's PIER delivers the news on Gulf oil spill
The popular Deepwater Horizon Response website, created one day after the BP rig exploded, allows agencies to collaborate on information released to the public and could become a model for other agencies to use for disaster response.
Modernization
Social media both unites and divides federal workforce
Used appropriately, Web 2.0 tools can benefit intergenerational relationships, a valuable lesson as the applications become more important to agency missions in the future, experts say.
Digital Government
E-health records grants to create 1,000 jobs, White House says
The Obama administration awards $220 million in stimulus funds to communities selected as pioneers in expanding the use of digital patient records.
Cybersecurity
Unplugged VA computer affects treatment of cancer patients
Without network connection, doctors could not check X-rays of veterans with prostate cancer to determine how they were responding to radiation, the department's inspector general reports.
Digital Government
VA finds bug that caused mix-up in health exchange system
Glitch that combined patient data or returned incomplete files should be fixed in May.
Cybersecurity
Agencies under pressure to develop systems first, security second
As agencies rush to adopt the latest technology tools, they're leaving the traditional approach to information security behind.
Digital Government
VA official says patient-controlled health records guard privacy better
But few Americans have created the medical files, making individually managed records the centerpiece of a national network problematic, a privacy group counters.
Cybersecurity
White House tells agencies to use same framework to exchange information
OMB says joint Justice-Homeland Security program should be basis for federal information-sharing.
Modernization
PUFF, just like that Air Force predicts volcanic cloud path
Within minutes the computer model forecast where plumes of ash were headed, giving commanders valuable information about where to establish temporary operations and route aircraft.
Modernization
Consultants: Government is thirsty for foreign tech expertise
One caveat is small businesses based overseas must set up U.S. branches to qualify for such perks as set-aside contracts.
Cybersecurity