Digital Government
What's Brewin: Brother Enemy
Lt. Col. Jim Zumwalt (ret.) has spent the past 40 years trying to expiate the raw wounds of the Vietnam War. He did so in meeting his former enemies, an experience he relates in a book he will formally launch in Washington on Monday.
Digital Government
SPAWAR launches huge buy for handheld battlefield radios
Procurement of nearly 200,000 radios and accessories could be worth billions of dollars.
Digital Government
Agencies urged to change workplace practices to attract young workers
In a study on the federal technology job market, the CIO Council suggests managers should beef up technology, flexible schedules and employee feedback to compete for computer specialists.
Cybersecurity
Standards agency moves closer to $1 billion lab overhaul
Policy bill streamlines NIST laboratories into operating units, including one for information security.
Digital Government
Time Well Spent on PTSD and TBI
The wonderful thing about this gig is I have the opportunity to explore subjects that resonate with my personal experience and touch the heart. The treatment of troops suffering from post traumatic stress disorder and traumatic brain injury tops the list.
Digital Government
Thrift Board Wants the Young
Dana Bilyeu, whom President Obama has nominated to join the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, told a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee on Thursday that the board needed to work harder to convince young military service members to begin saving early. From a <em>Federal Times</em> <a href=http://www.federaltimes.com/article/20100421/BENEFITS03/4210305/1001>article</a>:
Ideas
Risk Lessons from the Ash Cloud
Managing risk is the job of government, and arguably the central mission of any agency, as Robert Charette wrote in a Government Executive <a href=http://www.govexec.com/features/0309-01/0309-01s2.htm>March 2009 feature</a>.
Digital Government
FDA and Regulating E-health Records
Lurking behind the movement toward electronic health records has been the idea of which federal agency should regulate the digital files. Or, IF an agency should. At the Wednesday meeting of a Health and Human Services Department advisory panel, a representative from the Food and Drug Administration, which regulates medical devices, explained why the agency hadn't pursued EHRs. From a <em>Government Health IT</em> report on the meeting:
Cybersecurity
Cyberattacks From Brazil?
Although most of the government-targeted cyberattacks that occurred last year were launched from China, targeted Chinese cyberattacks were actually less likely to be directed at governments than those launched from Brazil, said a cybersecurity analyst.
Digital Government
Social networking fuels collaboration among NASA researchers
The NASA Earth Exchange uses social networking to enable scientists around the world to share data, software code and research results.
Acquisition
DOD proposes new conflict of interest rules
Defense officials proposed new definitions for various types of conflicts of interest.
Digital Government
White House contributes to open-source project
Whitehouse.gov has released the code for four open-source modules, adding to the ongoing Drupal project.
Digital Government
Woodson Tapped for Top Doc
President Obama <a href=http://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/president-obama-announces-more-key-administration-posts-42110>announced</a> on Wednesday he plans to nominate Army Reserve Brig. Gen. Jonathan Woodson as assistant secretary of Defense for Health Affairs, filling the military's top doc slot. The post has been empty for a year, ever since Dr. S. Ward Casscells resigned in April 2008. I had <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100129_1050.php>heard</a> Woodson was the top choice back in January.
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HHS to make grants for prescription monitoring systems
The Substance Abuse and Mental Health Administration will make grants to help states set up and improve prescription monitoring programs for controlled substances.
Digital Government
HHS panel wants database for health IT safety
An advisory panel wants a new national database to ensure the safe use of electronic health record systems.
Digital Government
Navy picks leader for maritime intelligence center
National Maritime Intelligence Center connects several U.S. military intelligence operations, including those of the Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard.
Cybersecurity
Commerce opens suggestion box for online privacy
The Commerce Department wants opinions from businesses and consumers about privacy protections for Internet commerce.
Digital Government