Digital Government
Are you a healthy fed?
If you are like a lot of American workers, you spend a lot of time behind a desk. That means that for eight hours a day, your primary source of exercise may well be walking to the copier or coffee machine.
Digital Government
Canada's VA Investigates Vet Critics
Veterans Affairs Canada has found a nifty way to try and derail high-profile veterans who complain about its failure to deliver services: investigate them in a manner reminiscent of how long time FBI director J. Edgar Hoover went after folks he did not like.
Ideas
CIOs Not Into CyberScope
Although use of CyberScope, a mandatory new system for reporting on information security in federal agencies, is required by November 15, fewer than one in five federal information technology chiefs have tried using the program.
Cybersecurity
Canada's Cyber Strategy Vague, Too
Canada released its <a href=http://www.publicsafety.gc.ca/prg/em/cbr/_fl/ccss-scc-eng.pdf>Cybersecurity Strategy</a> plan this month, calling the protection of government and corporate computer systems "a daunting challenge."
Digital Government
Major IT Vendors Violated Labor Laws
Federal auditors identified four information technology contractors that have committed big violations of health or wage regulations, as part of an investigation of 15 suppliers with prior offenses that won awards totaling more than $6 billion in 2009.
Digital Government
Improving EHR's Safety Record
The Institute of Medicine will undertake a year-long study of how best to fulfill one of the great promises of health information technology: improving patient safety.
Digital Government
VA two years behind schedule on issuing secure ID cards, IG concludes
The Veterans Affairs Department is nearly two years behind schedule in implementing secure credentials for employees and contractors as required by Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12.
People
Low participation in SSA video contest is latest in a lackluster series
News analysis: A public relations expert offers remedies for recent video contests sponsored by the Social Security Administration and other agencies that generated relatively few entries.
Digital Government
GTSI suspended from federal government contracting
GTSI has been suspended from winning new government contracts but vows to defend itself against charges that it inappropriately received small-business contract dollars.
People
Contractors behaving badly: Report exposes labor law violations by IT vendors
Government Accountability Office auditors find that half of the 50 largest assessments handed out by the Labor Department's Wage and Hour Division between fiscal 2005 and 2009 were charged to 20 federal contractors.
Digital Government
Recent large IT contracts could cut prices for government, experts say
Multibillion-dollar pacts might be positive for agencies, but they're not always beneficial for vendors that must pay more for a chance to participate.
Digital Government
Mix NSA, a cyber data center and sales scam, and you get a conspiracy theory
Israelis posing as students selling art in neighborhoods near an area where the National Security Agency plans to build a data center to track and respond to cyberattacks had locals dreaming up spy plots.
Cybersecurity