Ideas
GSA Hits Social Media Road
The General Services Administration is heading full force into the Web 2.0 space, a move to increase collaboration among federal agencies, officials said Monday at the Web and New Media Conference.
Cybersecurity
TechAmerica wants Congress to move on tax credit, R&D money
The U.S. high-tech industry lost 245,600 jobs in 2009, according to the TechAmerica Foundation.
Digital Government
University of Maryland honors faculty members elected to National Academies
The University of Maryland held a reception for faculty members who recently were elected to the National Academies of Science and Engineering.
Digital Government
GSA launches a short-URL service people just might trust
Go.USA.gov lets registered federal employees convert long government Web-page addresses into short URLs that can fit into a Twitter-size message.
Digital Government
Questions prompt strong defense of broadband program
A Democrat on the Senate Small Business Committee raised concerns on Tuesday that federal regulators are wasting taxpayer dollars by funding duplicative broadband infrastructure projects as part of the $7.2 billion broadband stimulus program.
Digital Government
House panel starts work on bill aiming to develop science agencies, innovation
The bill would reauthorize the 2007 America COMPETES Act for five years and would authorize about $82 billion in funding for the bill's programs.
Modernization
GSA chief outlines IT spending to House appropriators
Integrating databases, improving public websites and developing an online application agencies can use to track greenhouse gas emissions are part of a double-digit increase in the agency's fiscal 2011 budget request.
Digital Government
Foreign contractors could face prosecution in U.S. courts
Senate committee approves bill that would subject overseas firms to civil and criminal proceedings in the United States.
Digital Government
Army releases plan to rebalance and adapt Future Combat Systems programs
Plan describes how the service will rebalance units and adapt Future Combat Systems programs.
Digital Government
VA official says patient-controlled health records guard privacy better
But few Americans have created the medical files, making individually managed records the centerpiece of a national network problematic, a privacy group counters.
Digital Government
Workforce Mapping Walter Reed, Bethesda
Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington will close in September 2011, with its personnel, patients and operations moving to an expanded, joint medical facility at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md.
Cybersecurity