Digital Government
Companies begin offering faster airport screening
The Transportation Security Administration appears to be taking a wait-and-see approach to the renewed effort.
Digital Government
Industry group says 'significant progress' on net neutrality talks
Information Technology Industry Council President and Chief Executive Officer Dean Garfield issued a progress report on Tuesday about his group's efforts to find some middle ground among stakeholders battling over network neutrality, saying there has been "significant progress" while declining to provide any details.
Emerging Tech
Researchers slam lawmakers' websites as failing constituents
Poor design, lack of interaction and a paucity of pertinent information keep elected officials from enriching democracy, a report concludes.
Digital Government
E-file system to flag errors in claims of foreign earned income
A new version will include an application to correct the erroneous tax exclusions, which cost the government $90 million in 2008.
Digital Government
Veterans Affairs and CMS will launch projects for personal health records
The initiatives could lead to almost a third of the public creating digital files to store their medical information.
Digital Government
NASA program to launch space shuttle workers into new jobs
A competition for $35 million in grants would fund initiatives to help 9,000 contractors facing unemployment to find work in aviation and aerospace, clean technology, homeland security, IT and life sciences.
Digital Government
Paris and Pakistan
A Navy buddy of mine working on the Pakistan relief operation mused in an e-mail on Monday that for some odd reason Paris Hilton and her arrest for alleged cocaine possession received more media play over the past weekend than the fact that "we rescued thousands of people."
Digital Government
More on Cloud and Job Loss
Nextgov has written before about how cloud computing means fewer jobs, but that isn't talked about much in the federal government. (Read <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100408_7652.php>here</a>.) Most of the savings in any organization comes from reducing labor - not equipment.
Cybersecurity
How Facebook Can Derail a Clearance
That saucy page on MySpace or YouTube could derail a future spook job, according to an inhouse study conducted for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence -- and <a href=http://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2010/08/government-finds-uses-social-networking-sites>unearthed last week</a> by the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
Ideas
The Narrow-Banded Brain
Stephen Baker, author of the <em>Numerati</em>, <a href=http://thenumerati.net/index.cfm?postID=632>wrote in his blog</a> on Tuesday that there may very well come a day when eye witness accounts could be less of a factor in courts and replaced by the ever increasing deluge of data provided by security cameras, digital recorders and databases. He points to research that indicates humans typically focus on just 1 percent of their field of vision when observing their surroundings and fill everything else on the periphery from memory. That's not a good thing when recounting what you saw in a court of law.
Digital Government
Pandemic: Health IT Goes Viral
Spending on health IT systems at the state and local level will surge almost 20 percent over the next five years, a trickle compared to the 20 percent annual growth rate forecast for the healthcare IT market in China.
Digital Government
Ed Meagher leaves SRA
Meagher, a former deputy CIO at the Interior Department, will join CSC as vice president of healthcare strategy.
Modernization
Survey says people prefer online federal customer service
A survey says Americans are more satisfied with online interactions with federal agencies than with their telephone conversations.
Digital Government
Public service on display at the Griffith Observatory
Blogger Steve Kelman is impressed with what he finds when he visits a former student who is now deputy director of the Los Angeles observatory.
Digital Government
FAR Council considers justifying sole-source awards
Congress demands a good reason for awarding a contract worth $20 million or more without hosting a competition for the work.
Digital Government
Would Patton survive in today's PowerPoint military?
Would Patton or MacArthur survive in the modern military's PowerPoint culture? Some of our readers doubt it.
Modernization
Agencies update Web sites in preparation for Hurricane Earl
The Federal Emergency Management Agency and the National Hurricane center have updated their home pages in preparation for Hurricane Earl.
Digital Government