Ideas

A Crowdsourced Tribute to Syria's Victims

Digital Government

Cyber Challenge Fills Education Void

Modernization

Tips for federal agencies to get the most out of StumbleUpon

A StumbleUpon executives explains how federal agencies can leverage the StumbleUpon platform to drive traffic to federal websites.

Acquisition

How OMB's guidance fails to prevent duplication at federal agencies

Efforts to prevent the proliferation of overlapping programs have fallen short.

Acquisition

GSA holds too much fee money, GAO says

GSA’s Schedules program averaged an excess of $62.2 million in revenue over program costs, before contributions to reserves, each fiscal year.

Digital Government

VA cancels joint platform contract due to alleged conflict of interest: Report

The Veterans Affairs Department has abruptly canceled a major contract that was hailed as a key development for the joint common health record platform with the Defense Department.

Digital Government

Facebook enlists U.S. military for new Pages format debut

The Facebook Pages format got a splashy introduction with the help of U.S. military services--with the exception of one Page that took on some water.

Digital Government

New community inspires women to pursue IT careers

CompTIA launches new program to encourage women to seek IT jobs.

Modernization

Survey: Cost savings key driver for government cloud adoption

Although the public sector is lagging behind the private industry in cloud adoption, new research shows that almost half of governments globally are planning a cloud migration.

Cybersecurity

Workforce is the key to tight security on a tight budget

A discussion at the RSA conference identified the elements of successful security.

Modernization

Major update to governmentwide cyber manual takes on WikiLeaks

NIST's compendium of data security standards tackles supply chain risks, cloud privacy and smartphone wiping.

Digital Government

ICANN plays the name game with domain names

ICANN boots up controversy with a new program that introduces an unlimited number of Internet addresses.

Cybersecurity

Tight budgets bring people issues to the forefront for CISOs

Information security chiefs are getting creative about attracting and retaining skilled employees without spending a fortune.

Digital Government

VA abruptly cancels key software contract for joint health record

The Veterans Affairs Department yesterday abruptly terminated a $102.6 million contract awarded to ASM Research last month to develop software vital to an integrated electronic health record system that will serve both VA and the Defense Department.