Digital Government
Testing, Testing ... EHR ... 1, 2, 3
The inexorable march toward the future of health care--one that is digitized, codified and interconnected--has passed another milestone.
Digital Government
More on IT Jobs Registers
The Office of Personnel Management is looking to revamp its centralized hiring register program to make it easier for agencies to search for specific skills. <em>Federal Times</em> <a href="http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20100820/PERSONNEL02/8200301/1001">reports</a> chief human capital officers say the hiring registers -- under which OPM advertises for 13 of the most in-demand federal jobs, including IT - are too broad and insufficient for helping them target the skills they need, according to OPM Director John Berry. For example, the Internal Revenue Service needs information technology specialists with experience writing Java code, but the current registers don't identify candidates with those skills.
Digital Government
How to stop Facebook friends from tracking you
Facebook's new Places feature allows others to tag your locations, and Facebook has turned it on by default. Here's how to turn it off.
Ideas
State: Dial "FLOOD" for Pakistan
State Department officials, following the United Nations lead, now are accepting donations via text message to help support recovery and reconstruction in Pakistan where floods have displaced about 20 million people and spread deadly waterborne diseases.
Ideas
High Risk List Posted
The Office of Management and Budget just released its <a href="http://it.usaspending.gov/?q=content/highpriority-projects">high-risk list</a> of information technology projects. A full story will be posted later today.
People
Air Force must do better job of tracking risky agreements: IG
Air Force contracting personnel often failed to complete all necessary steps to protect the service before letting a contractor begin a project even though negotiations were still under way, according to the Government Accountability Office.
Digital Government
Why cybersecurity experts can never rest
Hackers readily adapt to evolving security technologies and tactics, report reveals, highlighting the need for constant diligence.
People
White House targets 26 high-risk IT programs for fixes
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra said the goal of a high-priority IT project list is not to kill the projects, but to turn them around as quickly as possible.
Acquisition
Education Department revamps obsolete acquisition regulations
Education Department officials are making the first large-scale revisions to their buying rules since President Ronald Reagan was in the White House.
Digital Government
Top 10 signs you have a Rising Star on staff
Short of an obvious nose ring or Justin Bieber ringtone, how would you know if you have a Rising Star in your midst? FCW Cartoonist John Klossner offers 10 tips.
Digital Government
The pros and cons of government cybersecurity work
A couple of old-line security pros warn that cybersecurity jobs – especially in government – are likely to be frustrating for qualified hackers. But there also are some upsides to the work.
Modernization
Data Deluge
Agencies have turned to virtualization to process a growing stockpile of information. Now the challenge is where to put it all.
Modernization
Social Security expects to award mega-IT contract by October
The $2 billion pact continues a services agreement, but will expand to include health information technology work that will allow the agency to exchange more electronic medical data.
Digital Government
Obama sends 30 technology projects back to the drawing board
Initiatives will be dropped if agencies can't get them back on track.
Digital Government
Gates orders more information sharing to stop inside attacks
New policy will help alert Defense's investigative groups to threat information discovered during counterintelligence operations on department networks, systems and computers.
Ideas