Digital Government
DOT Launches Online IdeaHub
The Transportation Department on Tuesday launched an online community where its employees can share and collaborate on new ideas. The network - called IdeaHub - will enable the department to take employee engagement and innovation to the next level by allowing workers to do something they've never fully been able to do before - share ideas and collaborate with their 55,000 DOT colleagues across the country, according to a <a href="http://fastlane.dot.gov/2010/08/ideahub-to-engage-dotemployees-tap-their-expertise.html#more">post</a> by Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on the department's Fast Lane blog.
Modernization
Emirates to block most BlackBerry services
Move by UAE to suspend BlackBerry services will affect local users and international travelers passing through the nation's airport.
People
OMB may open purse to help program reviews
Close on the heels of the fiscal 2011 review requirements, officials are now offering to help agencies pay for program evaluations.
Acquisition
Are agencies paying too much through the GSA schedule? Readers respond
Blogger Steve Kelman replies to some of the many comments he received on a recent post about the confusion surrounding GSA schedule pricing.
Digital Government
Turning the tables: What do you think of John Q. Public?
Well, we know that many members of the public harbor the opinion that feds are overpaid, and there are plenty of congressional budget hawks and special interest groups who work to bolster that perception. It’s a message that is not hard to sell in a tight economy.
Digital Government
RIM unveils touch-screen Torch
RIM unveils the BlackBerry Torch, a smart phone that combines a BlackBerry keyboard and a touch screen.
Digital Government
What AT&T's $350M Networx award means to government telecom
Washington Technology
Cybersecurity
Public-private effort on cybersecurity needs a push from Congress
Government Computer News
Digital Government
GSA slams its way through IT improvements
One-day workshop addresses important technology projects, says agency CIO.
Cybersecurity
U.S. doesn't have leadership, strategy to protect cyberspace globally
Without high-level direction, federal agencies might not coordinate international cybersecurity positions as envisioned in the president's cyber policy review, GAO reports.
Digital Government
TSA says all cargo on domestic flights now screened
The agency continues to face problems in checking freight flying into the United States from other countries.
Cybersecurity
Defense review panel opens debate over federal cyber roles
Report cites need to work with Homeland Security to protect government and commercial networks so that capabilities in the U.S. Cyber Command and the National Security Agency are not duplicated.
Digital Government
Defense CIO Hearing Delayed
The Senate Armed Services Committee was supposed to hold a hearing on Tuesday on the <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100329_8439.php>nomination</a> of Teresa "Teri" Takai, the chief information officer from California, as the assistant secretary of Defense for networks and information integration - a.k.a. the Defense CIO. But the committee inexplicably delayed it.
People
Should being a fed be a round-the-clock job?
Federal employees might take off their badges when they get home, but they never stop being federal employees, even on Facebook, one reader writes.
Ideas