Digital Government
Hint to VA: Use the Internet
The Veterans Affairs Department completed a study in 1988 that determined up to 30 percent of Vietnam Veterans suffered from post traumatic stress disorder and in 2000 Congress directed VA to do a follow-up study and they want officials to interview the same people they talked to for the first study.
Digital Government
Shining a Light on Health IT
Communities large and small--from San Diego, New Orleans and Indianapolis to Stoneville, Miss. and Brewer, Maine--are among 15 named this week as models for advancing the use of health information technology.
Digital Government
Cloud security: Feds on cusp of change
Experts assess the future of certification in cloud computing and the types of security agencies must address.
People
GSA's environmental 'moon shot'
GSA Administrator Martha Johnson has goals for environmental improvements that she compares to the Apollo space program for ambitiousness.
Digital Government
Barriers to Work-Life Balance
While the federal government has made some progress in improving employee work-life balance, management resistance and a lack of coordinated programs often cause agencies to underutilize telework and other flexibility programs, witnesses told a Senate subcommittee on Tuesday.
Digital Government
Health IT gets a $220M funding transfusion
The Health and Human Services Department will give 15 nonprofit organizations $220 million for health IT pilot projects.
Modernization
6 degrees: Explore your Civil War roots with NARA
The National Archives and Records Administration uses interactive technologies to help people explore the Civil War.
Cybersecurity
DHS should assess effects of physical border fence, watchdog says
The GAO faulted Customs and Border Protection for spending $2.6 billion on physical fencing and vehicle barriers at the southwestern border without assessing their effectiveness.
Ideas
Building The Oil Spill Crisis Map
Texts, tweets and e-mails from those who have felt the effects of the Gulf Coast oil spill will be <a href="http://oilspill.labucketbrigade.org/">mapped out</a> with new crowdsourcing technology, giving the federal government another look at the impact of the crisis.
Modernization
Geo-spill: Tracking the oil muck by GIS
State and federal officials are using a program from the Homeland Security Department to share geospatial data about the oil spill in the Gulf Of Mexico.
Cybersecurity
House panel advances bill to make chief technology officer and cyber czar permanent jobs
Legislation aimed at streamlining FISMA to improve information security processes and ease reporting burden on agencies.
Modernization
Social media both unites and divides federal workforce
Used appropriately, Web 2.0 tools can benefit intergenerational relationships, a valuable lesson as the applications become more important to agency missions in the future, experts say.
Modernization