Ideas
DHS Consolidates Databases
The Office of Infrastructure Protection at the Homeland Security Department is in the midst of consolidating its dozens of infrastructure security databases--and adding new ones to the pool--to help government agencies and private partners better monitor threats.
People
VA suspends spending on 188 IT projects
The Veterans Affairs Department has extended its program management system to all 280 IT projects and suspended spending on two-thirds of them.
Digital Government
CIOs turns to portfolio management to get IT efforts under control
CIOs from the Homeland Security and Veterans Affairs departments and the Social Security Administration are looking to foster teamwork across traditional boundaries.
Digital Government
Can agency systems handle new FISMA requirements?
New standards for reporting under the Federal Information Security Management Act are intended to further reduce paper, but not all agencies are well equipped to meet them.
Cybersecurity
White House tells agencies to use same framework to exchange information
OMB says joint Justice-Homeland Security program should be basis for federal information-sharing.
Digital Government
In ironic twist, Adobe takes on Apple for not being open government friendly
The creator of the PDF claims a strategy to block widely used programs on the iPad and iPhone conflicts with President Obama's transparency goals and undermines Internet-era innovation.
Cybersecurity
Federal cybersecurity monitoring goes real-time and digital
New rules call for agencies to continuously collect data about security status and stream it to OMB monthly, rather than report quarterly by paper.
Digital Government
Few VA claims examiners working on new program to process GI benefits
Officials assure Senate panel they will meet the schedule to install the software application to all processing centers by December.
Digital Government
From the Holocaust to Baghdad
Talking this morning with Air Force Maj. Jonathan Kusy, who works with the U.S. military advisory mission in Iraq, I had one of those moments that makes one pause and reflect.
Digital Government
Obama Picks CMS Nominee
President Obama <a href=http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=45067&oref=todaysnews>announced</a> on Monday his choice of Donald Berwick, a Harvard professor and president of the Institute for Health Care Improvement, to lead the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services.
Ideas
Government Requests to Google
Ever tried to watch your favorite YouTube video, only to find out that it is no longer available? Did you even know that law enforcement and government agencies can request that information be removed from Google servers?
Digital Government