Digital Government

What to name baby? SSA has a new mobile app for that.

The Social Security Administration is putting thousands of baby names within easy reach with a new iPhone application.

People

HHS to deploy new anti-fraud software for Medicare

Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced that new predictive fraud-catching tools for Medicare will go into effect on July 1.

Acquisition

Continuity after Kundra

The departure of federal CIO Vivek Kundra puts continuity in the spotlight, writes Steve Kelman.

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.

Ideas

Wannabe Chief Yes Officers, Plywood Leadership, and More

Ideas

USAID Seeks Anti-Trafficking App