Digital Government

Air Force is Building Mini-Hospital in Liberia to Fight Ebola

The Air Combat Command has started installation of a mini-community hospital in Liberia.

Digital Government

DOE Declassifies Oppenheimer Security Clearance Hearing Transcripts

The full 20-volume transcript is now online.

Digital Government

VA Makes Vet Employment a Factor in Awarding $22.3 Billion Tech Deal

VA intends to reserves four awards for vet-owned businesses.

Digital Government

With Technology and Transparency on its Side, NGA Ready for Its Day in the Sun

The agency has taken a lead role in the intelligence community’s technology integration plan and spearheaded big data efforts.

Digital Government

9 things to look for in an open-source project

Although there is no litmus test for "good" open source, there are several indicators of a healthy project, writes GitHub's Ben Balter.

Digital Government

Dallas Ebola Patient Sent Home Because of Electronic Health Record Snag

Blame the robots, not the humans.

Digital Government

Former Treasury official Gregg joins accountancy practice

Former Fiscal Assistant Secretary of the Treasury Dick Gregg led implementation of the Data Act for the department.

Digital Government

Who Needs an EHR? Some Defense Hospital Emergency Rooms Still Use Paper

Review of Military Health System faults IT systems.

Digital Government

VanRoekel’s Successor: Why the Next Federal CIO Could be a Familiar Face

The search to fill the latest vacancy left by former Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel probably won’t end in Silicon Valley, experts say.

Digital Government

Why a Simple Rubber Glove Could be Key to Fighting Ebola

Basic protective gear was revolutionary for 19th-century medicine, and health workers trying to stop Ebola are recognizing its importance all over again.

Digital Government

NOAA taps NASA satellite manager for NESDIS

Stephen Volz will shepherd programs to build and launch the next generation of environmental satellites.

Digital Government

Veterans Benefits Administration Gets New Communications Chief

Seasoned public affairs director Boone started at VBA last week.

Digital Government

VA CIO: Scheduling System Software Will Be Fielded by 2017, Not 2020

The department says a chart depicting a full rollout not until 2020 was outdated and it's committed to a two-year rollout.

Digital Government

Does the Intelligence Community Really Get Hadoop?

Intelligence experts say the government needs to hire more data scientists to keep up with the big-data savvy private sector.

Digital Government

What We Know About Coming DATA Act Standards

The pile of data needed to track federal spending is an unwieldy, nonuniform mess.