People
DOD, VA shift medical record strategy
New short-term goals are intended to move closer to the objective of an integrated electronic health record.
Digital Government
Using Attrition as a Sequestration Substitute Has Drawbacks
Broad workforce cuts could erode critical services or shift the work burden.
Cybersecurity
Is our view of cybersecurity too local?
Looking at other countries could provide useful insight to better shape agencies' own cyber strategies, report suggests.
Modernization
BlackBerry Z10 has not sold well in home-market Canada
Despite lackluster sales, analysts remain cautiously optimistic.
Digital Government
Iran airs spy footage it (allegedly) took from a captured U.S. drone
Iran says it found the drone in late 2011.
People
How to assess your team
Technology executives at federal agencies must oversee and develop a wide range of employees: longtime civil servants, political appointees, their hires and those they have inherited. Dan McCarthy offers a tool to make that easier to do.
Digital Government
Analysis: Is big data to Barack Obama what big oil was to George W. Bush?
Data-collection practices are at odds with some EU policies.
Digital Government
How to influence policy
Most agency appointees come in planning to shape policy, and quickly find it's not as easy as they had hoped.
Digital Government
EPA withholds information on dirty bomb report
The information could reveal whether the officials are speaking out against their own agency’s long-held health standards.
Emerging Tech
Contacting lawmakers at the click of a button
Washington staters can contact their legislators by commenting on legislation.
Digital Government
For China, a new set of energy pipelines will reduce its hated reliance on the US Navy
China's relationship with Burma may spur a change.
Digital Government
The brain injury data project: One soldier's story
Data from more than 10,000 brain injury patients -- including hundreds of variables and outcomes -- is being tracked in an ongoing government project that began 26 years ago.
Digital Government
The drone secrets inside John Brennan
No one knows more about the CIA's drone base in Saudi Arabia than Brennan.
Digital Government
Survey finds big opportunities for government in mobile apps
Satisfaction with websites has remained relatively steady since 2009.
Emerging Tech
Good for science, bad for your nightmares: Moths that drive robots
The next generation of robots may work like moths to a pheromone.
Digital Government
Should feds adopt a DNA program that cracked a 1999 Dutch murder case?
Independent agency could help police expand DNA use. Privacy advocates balk.
People
Tweets give USGS early warning on earthquakes
The U.S. Geological Survey is finding an unexpected value in Twitter's brief, rapid widespread message capability.
Acquisition
Small-business quotas could become even tougher to meet
The budget squeeze coupled with a bill to change the small-business targets add up to a challenge for contracting officers.
Digital Government