Digital Government
New Adobe platform would personalize an agency website for individual users
The product also would simplify citizen interaction with agencies by instantly pulling together multiple records.
Modernization
Treasury seeks brainy search engine to help follow terrorist money
The software must be able to work with the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network's existing fraud-detection application to probe a database of large transactions.
Digital Government
Fire fighters battling blazes in the Southwest are relying on high-tech tools
GIS systems, GPS data and satellite, and Wi-Fi networks help fire managers plan strategy.
Modernization
ATF didn't act on electronic tracking of illegal weapons, report alleges
Agents reportedly failed to use eTrace to stop firearms from being smuggled to drug cartels in Mexico.
Modernization
Liability in the cloud: a complex forecast
As data is stored and transmitted across international borders via cloud infrastructures a growing concern is: who should be held liable for data breaches when information flows across jurisdictions?
Digital Government
Hackers declare open season on government websites
Two notorious hacker groups have teamed up in an effort to attack federal sites, steal data and vandalize pages.
Digital Government
The best of the federal blogosphere
Smart phones for behavioral health care; Who are Fannie and Freddie?; Invasion of the photo snappers; Art unplugged.
Cybersecurity
Recommended reading
When insiders go rogue; Celebrating the network revolution; The truth about multitasking; Barriers to CIOs' progress.
Modernization
DISA reveals strategy for near future directions
The Defense Information Systems Agency 2011-2012 Campaign Plan adds more focus and definition to the agency's near- and long-term directions, including a renewed emphasis on enterprise services and mobile-computing technologies.
Digital Government
@BarackObama to write tweets #socialmediawin
President Barack Obama's re-election campaign has announced that the president will personally write some of the tweets on his @BarackObama Twitter account.
People
Agencies may get inappropriate comments on e-dockets, advisory group says
The Administrative Conference of the United States opened the door to discussing the problems with managing the flood of public comments anticipated on e-dockets.
Cybersecurity
TSA testing mobile devices for its employees, CIO says
The Transportation Security Administration is conducting pilot projects to review several mobile devices for use by employees, CIO Emma Garrison-Alexander said.
People