Cybersecurity
DOD, DHS earn failing grades in foreign language
The Defense and Homeland Security departments don't have enough specialists who are fluent in Middle Eastern and Asian foreign languages. Can technology help bridge the gap?
Cybersecurity
Cyber partnership still eludes government and industry
Industry doesn't want to risk trade secrets, and government likes to classify critical information. No wonder cyber threats get less concerted attention than they deserve.
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Government's location-specific apps need clear context
What responsibility will agencies have when location-specific government data is delivered to smart phones?
Digital Government
The best of the federal blogosphere
A virtual window on rover research; Thoughts on the innovation recession; The evolution of public engagement; Twitter: Not just a monologue.
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Army launches 'don't ask, don't tell' inbox
The intent of the inbox is to help the Army assess and consider whether repeal of the law would reduce operational readiness or unit cohesion.
Digital Government
GSA plans for 'sustainability acquisitions'
The premier procurement agency’s plan is to use its buying power to change the federal marketplace.
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Insourcing still a go for the military
Military and Defense Department agencies can continue insourcing even though Defense Secretary Gates has acknowledged the program doesn't work.
Digital Government
No wonder your desk is so messy
The other day, we received a press release on a new survey that indicated that fewer than half of employees take a lunch break away from their desk.
Digital Government
Group issues 'i-Awful' list for House privacy bills
Privacy groups argue that the bill is too weak and would do little to change the status quo.
Cybersecurity
NIST to help retrain NASA employees as cyber specialists
Cybersecurity research institute would prepare laid-off workers to fill the tens of thousands of technicians the federal government needs.
Digital Government
Agency sustainability plans show the challenges of going green
Technology will play a key role in meeting new conservation and greenhouse gas reduction targets.
Digital Government
Communication among public safety agencies like talking into a brick
Disaster response experts say emergency responders need broadband to communicate and to support advanced technology.
Digital Government
Holistic Worker Comm
The leaders at the Defense Logistic Agency's Disposition Services outfit, which sells or finds a way to reuse surplus or outmoded military property, has such poor employee communications that it decided it needed some outside help to develop a <a href=https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=13555f4deab36ec01bf4cc120dab4f7e&_cview=0>management transformation thingy</a>.
Digital Government
Health IT Skirts Care Management
The impending large-scale deployment of health information technology seeks to dramatically improve health care, yet those technologies frequently fail to integrate care management systems that can dramatically influence efficiencies and clinical outcomes, according to results of a new survey.
Cybersecurity
Malware Toolkit
Antivirus is no guarantee of a clean, well functioning computer. There are times IT professionals need to manually clean their machines. As such, a topic of conversation for a computer advisory board I read regularly has been on toolkits for infected workstations. The toolkit addresses removing malware from these infected workstations. One member suggested the below steps, those of which seemed like a reasonable approach:
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