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

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