Digital Government
Dick Tracy Inspired
The Army continues to push into the <a href=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buck_Rogers>Buck Rogers</a> Age.
Ideas
$1 Trillion Savings from Tech?
A group of corporate technology executives has developed a <a href=http://www.techceocouncil.org/storage/documents/TCC_One_Trillion_Reasons_FINAL.pdf>plan</a> that they say can reduce the federal deficit by $1 trillion over the next ten years while enhancing citizen services.
Cybersecurity
Critical Adobe Patches
Adobe published a pretty big <a href="http://www.macnn.com/articles/10/10/06/mac.updates.for.9x.and.82x.available.now/">patch</a> on Wednesday for its reader and <a href="http://www.adobe.com/support/downloads/detail.jsp?ftpID=3806">acrobat programs</a>.
Digital Government
E-Health and Privacy
With the push for e-health records, "not everyone is taking the proper steps to de-personalize the data and protect patients."
Digital Government
How technology can reinvigorate the education system
President Barack Obama set a goal of making the United States first in the world in post-secondary academic degrees by 2020, and Jim Shelton says technology is what will get us there.
People
OMB's hold on financial systems comes with a price
An OMB-mandated pause on financial system projects is likely to diminish momentum on modernization efforts, write Laurance Alvarado and John Cox, senior directors at Alvarez and Marsal.
People
4 steps toward better collaboration in government
KPMG's Mark Forman identifies four changes federal agencies could make to take fuller advantage of the latest breed of collaboration software.
Digital Government
The Disney Store approach to cutting the federal deficit
A retail business based on agency logo merchandise could make a modest dent in the federal deficit, writes Steve Kelman.
Digital Government
Takai may yet become DOD CIO
Former deputy Defense CIO Dave Wennergren said that California CIO Teri Takai is very much still in the running for the job.
People
Note to feds: Go forth and fail!
There's a fine line between being on top of a project and stifling workers' skills, FCW cartoonist and blogger John Klossner writes.
Modernization
Bedbugs beware: EPA weaves web(site) on how to kill you
The Environmental Protection Agency has a new online search tool to find pesticides for killing bedbugs.
Modernization
Consolidate IT infrastructure, save $1 trillion, CEOs say
The Technology CEO Council claims the federal government can save $1 trillion in 10 years by streamlining supply chains, consolidating data centers, automating paper processes and applying anti-fraud analytic tools.
Cybersecurity
White House slow to implement cybersecurity recommendations, GAO says
The White House moves to implement the 22 recommendations of a cybersecurity review last year, auditors find.
People
Do program managers belong in program offices, or in IT shops?"
Should program managers--the professionals who are best-suited to provide a results-oriented, front-line perspective on the features of the system as it is developed and released--work with program offices, or in IT shops? Blogger Steve Kelman ponders the question.
Cybersecurity