Digital Government

Bipartisan bill would block FCC from seizing spectrum

The measure is aimed at supporting the FCC's effort to expand the amount of available spectrum to meet growing demand for wireless communications.

Digital Government

War of Words

The rhetoric of cyberwar is heating up, but a real understanding of cyber threats is missing from the debate.

Digital Government

GAO sting shows passport fraud remains a problem

State Department fails to consistently use counterfeit detection techniques or verify identity data.

Digital Government

Publisher argues free access to research violates administration's transparency initiative

Fewer peer-reviewed science articles and canceled journal subscriptions are concerns.

Digital Government

$114 billion still available for federal contractors before Sept. 30

Agencies are likely to spend the remaining money on lower-cost items like computers and IT equipment, observer says.

Modernization

Army announces winners of contest to develop smart phone programs

Response of 'digital natives' exceeds Army technology chief's expectations.

Digital Government

Twitter, Facebook … and your right to post as you see fit

The once-bright line between public and private speech gets fuzzier every day—and in the federal workplace, GSA employees are walking point for the rest of us.

Ideas

The Non-Tweeting President

Digital Government

HHS to give states $1M each for health insurance exchanges

States and the District of Columbia will get $51 million to help them set up new insurance marketplaces.

Digital Government

Knowledge management for knowing people

FCW cartoonist and blogger John Klossner ponders the nuances of knowledge management’s tautological terminology.

Digital Government

Nixing Federal Job Registers?

The Office of Personnel Management is considering ending its centralized hiring register program due to a lack of interest among federal agencies. <em>Federal Times</em> <a href="http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20100728/PERSONNEL02/7280303/1001">reports</a> that in the seven months since OPM launched its hiring register program, agencies have only hired 71 of about 106,000 qualified job candidates from the registers.

Cybersecurity

CIA, Google fund Web analysis firm

In-Q-Tel and Google Ventures are investing in Recorded Future, a company whose technology monitors the Web in real time and develops predictions of future events from that content.

Modernization

FEMA needs to bridge logistics software gaps: IG

The Federal Emergency Management Agency has made progress in logistics, but its Total Asset Visibility logistics information system isn't finished, a new report says.