Digital Government

Defense Science Board urges new technology and tactics

Enemy's use of digital communications in action in Afghanistan and Iraq requires swifter U.S. adaptation, report says.

Digital Government

VA E-Mail in Manila

Ideas

Wired For War, Taliban Style

Digital Government

Are IT Grads Ready for Work?

Digital Government

Readers fret about shutdown risk

Our readers express anger, worry, cynicism in face of possible government shutdown.

Cybersecurity

IT management is key to security, CIO says

Government IT security lags behind the private sector because of a lack of centralized budget operational authority, VA’s Roger Baker said.

People

VA CIO says department has $700M carryover money for IT

The Veterans Affairs Department's IT budget is facing cuts in fiscal 2012, but there is $700 million in leftover funds from previous years, says CIO Roger Baker.

Digital Government

White House wants 'disruptive' shift in IT strategy, Kundra says

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra pushes for a major change in federal IT strategy away from asset ownership and toward buying IT services.

Digital Government

Furloughs … all you ever wanted to know

Government shutdown? At this point, it’s anyone’s guess. As lawmakers prepare to reconvene after the Presidents Day recess, word of another short-term continuing resolution to head off a shutdown already has begun to circulate.

Modernization

Veterans Affairs kicks off cloud e-mail

Government's largest cloud computing program to date will cost $150 million and transfer 600,000 VA employee mailboxes.

Digital Government

IG: Program to automate immigration processing is vulnerable to insider threats

Watchdog says USCIS officials have not indicated how they will correct shortcomings.