People

How to engage your online audiences

The Health and Human Services Department's new media team shares its lessons learned with other agencies.

Modernization

Are you ready to give up your desktop computer?

An increasing number of people are opting to work with mobile devices even in the office. Are you sold on the idea?

Digital Government

Found thumb drives: another way employees are a security menace

A DHS test found that most agency and contractor employees who found data disks and USB drives in a parking lot plugged them into their organization's network.

Digital Government

Pope gives Twitter his blessing

Federal Computer Week

Digital Government

Fire near Los Alamos National Lab jumps 25 percent to 93,000 acres

Hazardous materials are safe, accounted for and protected, a spokesman says, but the nuclear lab will remain closed.

Modernization

Army must balance use of battlefield digital systems with power demands

Key wideband radio has 90 percent reliability in network tests.

Digital Government

Apparent wave of cyber breaches is an illusion

Media-hungry pranksters are giving the false impression there have been more intrusions on government and corporate networks, but exploits have been intense for years, researchers say.

Digital Government

British government's massive website reduction took years

U.S. draws inspiration from across the pond as it embarks on a similar Web consolidation initiative.

People

Blogging do's and don'ts

The key to getting executives to blog is to set clear expectations.

Cybersecurity

Future cybersecurity workforce heads to summer camp

The U.S. Cyber Challenge, launched two years ago to address a critical shortage of skilled professionals, is expanding efforts to attract, engage and educate students for careers in cybersecurity.

Digital Government

Senate bill would up ante for tax e-filing, target delinquent contractors

The measure, introduced by Sen. Tom Carper, builds on similar legislation introduced last year.

People

Federal pay, benefits would be at risk in August, group says

Unless the debt ceiling is raised, the federal government sometime in early August would be unable to meet a wide range of spending obligations, group says.

Modernization

How cloud computing messes with your team

Agency IT departments need to reorient themselves as expert service consultants in the age of cloud computing, a report says.

Digital Government

How ready are we for cyberspace?

With little definition of the man-made terrain of the cyber domain and little known about the policies that govern it, one military officer has some suggestions for starting to defend cyberspace.