Digital Government

TSA Blogger Brings Message to Defense

A prolific -- and popular -- blogger at for the Transportation Security Administration has begun to spread his word to the Defense community. Bob Burns, a.k.a. Blogger Bob, wrote his first post for the Armed With Science Blog, which appears on the <a href=http://www.dodlive.mil/>DoD Live</a> website.

Digital Government

Does filtering adult Web sites work?

Does software to block adult content and other objectional material really work? In past years such programs have been knocked for blocking legitimate Web sites along with the nasty ones -- such as screening out breast-cancer information sites along with nubile young vixens.

Digital Government

DARPA seeks young blood

DARPA is accepting proposals for its next Computer Science Study Group.

Digital Government

IT spending dashboard goes mobile

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra has announced an updated Web site to help the public track the $80 billion the government spends annually on information technology.

Digital Government

IT Jobs: Fed vs. Private Sector

The private sector is steps ahead of the federal government when it comes to overall job satisfaction as well as managing, training and rewarding employees, according to data from the <a href="http://www.fedview.opm.gov/2010/Reports/PrivComp.asp?AGY=ALL">2010 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey</a>.

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Show Them the Money

Final rules governing the adoption of electronic medical records, released this week by the Health and Human Services Department, significantly softened proposed requirements floated earlier this year. The draft regulations generated some 2,000 comments, yet modification of the rules was largely a concession to large special-interest groups, notably the American Medical Association and the American Hospital Association, that had pilloried the proposed regulations as unreasonable and unrealistic.

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Top-Dollar IT Skills

The battle is on for hard-to-find technology talent, and companies are paying top dollar for the most in-demand IT professionals. This month's edition of the <a href="http://phx.corporate-ir.net/External.File?item=UGFyZW50SUQ9Mzg4MzA1fENoaWxkSUQ9MzkxMDYwfFR5cGU9MQ==&t=1">Dice Report</a> notes that this year's most in-demand jobs include software developers, C#, security analysts and engineers, database administrators and technology professionals with active federal security clearances.

Digital Government

Earthquakes are something to tweet about

Tweets are far from being scientific information, but the U.S. Geological Survey is finding Twitter helpful in monitoring earthquakes in real time.

Digital Government

Wanna-be federal teleworkers raise their voices

Anyone doubting feds’ deep-seated desire to telework had better take a look at some of the activity on the GovCareerNetwork blog over the last 48 hours.

Digital Government

New TSP site drives traffic, gets mixed reviews

Visitors note glitches in retirement calculators and call for a more convenient place to leave feedback.

Digital Government

Minerals Management Service's replacement still has no website

Open government advocates worry the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, Regulation and Enforcement's lack of an online presence is an indication of a persistence of poor management.

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Contractors caught gaming the system avoid punishment

Eight months after GAO finds fraud in the service-disabled veteran-owed small business program, not a single firm has been suspended.

Digital Government

DHS will establish consolidated intelligence portal

Bottom-up review notes plans to create an information sharing architecture that centralizes departmentwide threat data.

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Earthquakes are something to tweet about

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Public safety officials to kick off lobbying blitz for spectrum

Police chiefs, sheriffs, emergency communications professionals and others plan to lobby Capitol Hill next week to persuade lawmakers to reallocate a block of spectrum for the creation of a nationwide interoperable public safety broadband network.