Digital Government

9 things feds should know about secure international travel

U.S. citizens, and particualrly U.S. government employees, are targets for for data exploitation, so travelers should assume their devices are being monitored a d should take steps to prevent data theft.

Digital Government

How to manage cybersecurity risks of international travel

International travel poses elevated risks that an organization may never have encountered during the course of normal business operations, and requires security steps before during and after a trip.

Digital Government

Why bother moving to IPv6?

Adoption of the new protocols will be a challenge, and there are ways to work around the shortage of IPv4 address space. But the online world will pass by those who don't make the move to IPv6.

Digital Government

5 critical steps on the road to IPv6

Connecting with the rest of the world could soon require the use of IPv6, and agencies should begin preparing now to use the new protocols.

Digital Government

DARPA wants to blow up military design process, start over

The government's blue-sky R&D agency launches a new effort to reinvent the design and manufacture of defense equipment using computer aid and crowdsourcing.

Digital Government

E-voting system failures lead to call for public clearinghouse

A new report calls for creating a national public searchable database of electronic voting systems' defects and vulnerabilities.

People

White House takes whack at financial management money pits

White House officials have finished the first round of changes to troubled financial system modernization projects across the government after freezing spending on 20 such projects in July.

Digital Government

U.S. Military Buys Portable Movie Theaters

The military is buying portable outdoor movie theaters for its troops.

Digital Government

Saving for that rainy day called ‘retirement’

Well, sometimes it really does help to force people to do what’s good for them. The recent change to provide new feds with automatic enrollment in the Thrift Savings Plan likely will turn out to be one of those things.

Digital Government

The Agile Data Warehouse: Keeping Users Happy

If shops don't figure out how to accelerate their cumbersome data warehousing projects, their information consumers will pass them by.

Digital Government

ACLU challenges citizen laptop searches

North Country Public Radio

Digital Government

Virginia data debacle doesn't disappear

Hampton Roads Pilot

Digital Government

W.Va. lawmakers hold hearing on state tech outsourcing

West Virginia Public Broadcasting

Digital Government

OMB cancels financial system development at SBA and VA

The move is part of a governmentwide review of the troubled projects and a reengineering of the way agencies purchase and develop information technology.

Digital Government

GSA issues first contract for satellite program

Artel Inc. receives award for project that will manage the purchase of satellite services for all federal agencies.

Digital Government

Researchers: Navy SEALS' new brain injury test has high false-positive rate

The Defense Department looks for ways to detect concussions in the battlefield, but most tools have a high number of misdiagnoses.

Digital Government

Open Health Data Ain't Free

A major medical association has released data on the performance of heart surgeons, in what bloggers are calling the "open health data movement," in reference to the Obama administration's open government initiative. The president's program involves releasing metrics detailing the inner workings of government via public websites. The Society of Thoracic Surgeons' effort involves releasing scores of more than 90 percent of the roughly 1,000 U.S. cardiac surgery practices to the public via a Consumer Reports <a href="http://www.consumerreports.org/health/doctors-hospitals/surgeon-ratings/ratings-of-bypass-surgeons.htm">subscription website</a>.