Cybersecurity
Making Dashboards Meaningful
Agencies are boosting transparency online, but making data meaningful is the real trick.
Digital Government
Electronic waste recycling program falls short of lawmaker's expectations
Federal contractors don't conform to standards for the safe disposal of old computers, oversight panel chairman says.
Digital Government
Innovation health care funds will be under extensive scrutiny
Innovation health care funds will be under extensive scrutiny
Cybersecurity
World leaders crowd source solutions to global security
A European think tank issues 10 recommendations collected during a five-day online dialogue that included thousands of international experts, government policymakers and activists.
Digital Government
Institute uses ink-jet cartridges to 'print' skin for wounded soldiers
Technology could help treat soldiers who receive burns on the battlefield.
Digital Government
Industry group seeks to highlight impact of insourcing on small businesses
New coalition, led by former career federal acquisition official, says now is not the time to pull jobs out of the private sector.
Digital Government
Senior executives honored with Presidential Rank awards
Honored executives saved government $49 billion
Digital Government
The town meeting meets the national dialogue
AmericaSpeaks, a nonpartisan group that organizes public discussions on federal, state and local policy issues, has developed an approach that seeks to blend the online national dialogue with the traditional town hall meeting.
Cybersecurity
Consolidating access control yields big payoffs
Centralizing formerly separate user identity management systems can lower costs, increase security and productivity, and lay the foundation for new online services.
People
TSA's No-fly system tripped up by human factors
The near get-away of Fasai Shahzad stemmed from a process requiring human intervention, according to several news reports.
Digital Government
Your turn: Take the FCW challenge
All of the magazine’s editorial pages that week will be devoted to contributions from readers like you.
Cybersecurity
Access granted: NIH opens doors to medical resources
In March, the National Institutes of Health became the first government agency to accept two types of industry-standard online identity credentials that people can get for free.
Cybersecurity
6 ways unified identity management pays off
The benefits associated with implementing a unified identity system include security, compliance and interoperability.
Cybersecurity
3 stages of identity consolidation
These are the building blocks and the capabilities that result from a consolidated identity management system.
Digital Government
Goals for top-notch identity systems
The CIO Council's Federal Identity, Credential, and Access Management Roadmap and Implementation Guidance provides a common architecture for agencies as they invest in identity programs.
Digital Government
You Really Can See Russia From Here
I'm a real sucker for places that bill themselves as located at the edge of a land mass. So when researching an article on Air Force supply drops to remote radar sites in Alaska, I had the thrill of discovering that the <a href=http://maps.google.com/maps?hl=en&q=tin%20city%20alaska%20radar%20station&um=1&ie=UTF-8&sa=N&tab=wl>Tin City radar site</a> sits on the westernmost point of the North American continent.
Ideas
Tech To Trap Stim Violators
New rules from the White House aimed at penalizing stimulus recipients who fail to report on their spending instruct agencies to probe a report-tracking database every day for potential offenders.
Digital Government
Reforming Reimbursement Rules
In the superfast mobile computing era of iPhones, iPads, Kindles and net books, telemedicine is stuck in a rut.
Digital Government
Bonuses Tied to Agency IT Security
Federal agencies could miss out on special awards and bonuses if cybersecurity legislation introduced in the House on Thursday becomes law.
Cybersecurity