Modernization
SSA awards $2.8 billion services support contract
Accenture, Computer Sciences, Lockheed Martin and Northrop Grumman will compete for task orders to help the agency exchange electronic medical records, and expand Internet services for Medicare and supplemental security income applicants.
Digital Government
GAO finds contractors have inappropriate access to private data
The White House should include nondisclosure agreements in the Federal Acquisition Regulations restricting vendors from releasing sensitive data.
Digital Government
Defense lacks doctrine to guide it through cyberwarfare
Top priority for the Cyber Command is to document rules of engagement, GAO officials say.
Ideas
Video Gaming 101
Here's something every teenager will just love: The <a href=http://www.cihe-uk.com/>Council for Industry and Higher Education</a> in London released a report on Friday that concluded children should take classes on computer games as a way to improve the United Kingdom's competitiveness in the information technology (or what the Brits call information communications and technology) field.
Digital Government
Google Instant on Kundra, Kushi, KOAT
Google's new instant search feature promises results instantaneously with every letter typed into the search bar. But I find it more annoying than useful.
Digital Government
Imagine Twitter on 9/11
Tweeting was not an option for witnesses, survivors or victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack at the Pentagon. If those individuals were able to log on to Twitter and instantly communicate their whereabouts to their social networks, what would have happened? Families and first responders may have had the chance to say goodbye or save a life, maybe.
Digital Government
Health IT: Unwired, Unadopted
Providers and consumers of health care are eager to use mobile devices that deliver improved efficiencies and outcomes, yet a number of factors -- from hospitals' inadequate bandwidth to misaligned payment incentives -- are slowing adoption.
Digital Government
Smart phone as clinical tool: A teledermatology pilot program
A smart-phone pilot project gives patients in underserved areas better access to dermatologists.
Cybersecurity
Don't Tweet Your Password. Duh.
Twitter users report seeing tweets claiming if a user types his or her password into the live feed, twitter will automatically obfuscate it. These posters claim to have entered in their passwords to demonstrate, and allegedly all asterisks appeared when the tweet went live. If you've seen this tweet please ignore it, it's not true. The tweet is just a ploy/gimmick/joke to get people to post their passwords. Here's <a href="http://bash.org/?244321">an example</a> of this kind of nonsense.
Modernization
Smart phone as patient tool: A mental health application
A project funded by the National Institute on Drug Abuse turns a smart phone into a tool for aiding people with borderline personality disorder.
Modernization
How your mobile phone could help keep you healthy
With smart-phone use on the rise, health care agencies are launching a variety of mobile applications for patients and providers.
Acquisition
Agencies must toughen rules to protect sensitive information, GAO says
Federal officials need to address nondisclosure agreements and the process for notifying officials when information is improperly disclosed or misused.
Modernization
A cost of consolidation?
Agency officials looking to consolidate their technology operations might want to refactor the risks after the recent meltdown of services in Virginia.
People
Speaking truth to PowerPoint
PowerPoint opponents and defenders ponder the ramifications of a recent dust-up about DOD’s reliance on the presentation software.
People
Best place to work? Check the corner office.
The most important factor in determining employee satisfaction is an agency’s top leadership, according to an annual survey.
People
Failure? Bring it on!
GovLoop members have been discussing the merits of failure for improving personal and government performance, writes Andrew Krzmarzick.
People