Modernization

Android is expected to soon win approval for use on military networks

Certification for unclassified Defense networks is predicted by year's end, for Secret networks by April 2012.

Digital Government

Federal Coach: Improving your agency's Best Places to Work in the Federal Government ranking

Tom Fox is a big believer in the old adage, “Everything that needs to be done to improve government is being done somewhere, just not everywhere.” The key, of course, is sharing those lessons across agencies to improve performance government-wide.

Digital Government

States Roll Out EHR Programs

Ideas

Whipcast App: Promotion, not Transparency

Digital Government

Young Workers Put Tech Companies on Top

Digital Government

DOD looks to unconventional methods in fight against IEDs

The U.S. military's counter-IED agency is focusing on intelligence and robotics in the continuing fight against a critical threat to soldiers' lives.

Modernization

The secret effort to fix USAJobs

Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel reveals his behind-the-scenes role in trying to save the foundering job-search site.

Acquisition

OMB: Agencies must crack down on contractors

Agencies have not used suspension and debarment authorities effectively, Lew says

People

Administration says improper payments have decreased

The government lowered its overall improper payment error rate to 4.7 percent, down from 5.42 percent in 2009.

Digital Government

House Republicans introduce WhipCast mobile app with a splash

House Republican Whip Kevin McCarthy apparently took some tips from Hollywood in debuting the splashy new GOP WhipCast mobile application.

Ideas

Symantec Sells Huawei Stake and Unloads a Headache With Feds

Digital Government

IT needs to shift from engineering to 'anthropology' mindset

The CIO's role could spin off into one of two different directions, analyst says