Digital Government
Are remote workers more likely to visit adult sites?
Mobile workers are more likely than officebound counterparts to try to reach blocked web resources -- but not in all categories.
People
CDC awards grants for public health performance management systems
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention wants to boost the performance management capabilities of public health agencies with new funding.
People
Performance measures and risk: What should leaders stand for?
Blogger Steve Kelman challenges his students to ponder why some politicians are willing to commit to a goal if there is a chance they might fail.
Modernization
Panel opens review of online privacy law
Enacted in 1986, the law aims to provide citizens the same privacy protections online that they are legally afforded offline. The committee hearing today was its first to explore the law in the 111th Congress.
Digital Government
Feds continued to Tweet despite attack on the service
Bug caused White House press secretary's Twitter account to transmit a message of nonsensical chains of letters and symbols.
Digital Government
Pentagon investigating director of psychological centers of excellence
Army Col. Robert Saum is the second chief in the organizations short history of operation, fueling congressional concerns about top management.
Digital Government
Demonizing feds
Things didn’t get any better for feds this month out there in the world of public perception.
Digital Government
Mobile relay system takes air combat training to sea
New mobile technology for the Navy and Marine Corps makes the TCTS air combat training system "rangeless," allowing for advanced training over water.
Cybersecurity
More on Cyberwar
The debate about what constitutes a cyberwar still rages on. The latest installment comes from a conference put on by cybersecurity vendor ArcSight in National Harbor, Md., where Eneken Tikk, head of the legal and policy branch of the Cooperative Cyber Defence Centre of Excellence in Tallinn, Estonia, discussed the 2007 attacks on that country's networks.
Digital Government
EHR War: Open vs. Proprietary
When members of a federal advisory group suggested recently that the government shouldn't be in the business of designing electronic health records, Rick Jung nearly fell out of his chair.
Digital Government
Coast Guard's Approach to EHRs
If everything goes to plan, by the end of September the Coast Guard will award a <a href=https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&tab=core&id=02e709e7aefc828619352eacd7ae3247&_cview=0>contract</a> for a spanking new commercial electronic health record system that will replace a network based on an ancient version of the Defense Department's electronic medical system.
Digital Government
Server Consolidation Hires, Then Fires
Whatever the outcome of the White House's initiative to consolidate costly federal data centers, the transition presents a dilemma for contract employees. They stand to gain business by aggregating servers, and, then lose a substantial amount of maintenance and support work once systems are combined or outsourced. This is one finding in a new report by market research firm Input on the challenges facing the administration's effort to downsize server farms in five years.
Ideas
Verizon Nabs HHS Networx Contract
The Health and Human Services Department awarded Verizon Business, a Verizon Communications unit, a $169 million contract to manage and secure Internet protocol and data networks.
People
New tool adds geospatial capabilities to federal data website
The White House's Data.gov website that features multiple datasets for download now has a new capability to show the data geospatially.
Digital Government
American Security Challenge to honor Gen. Alexander
This year's American Security Challenge will feature a ceremony to honor Gen. Keith Alexander with the 2010 Patriot Award.
People