Digital Government
DISA launches huge integrated technology contract
Pact would provide cradle-to-grave operational support for training, exercises and events, analyze operational readiness, and form concepts for global networks and systems.
Digital Government
Administrator calls collaboration key to FAA's NextGen
New air traffic control system will continue to run into problems unless the agency can convince employees to work together and finalizes key policies such as who can access flight information and who pays for upgrades to planes.
Digital Government
Study: Social Security disability backlogs vary greatly by state
Influx in applications and employee furloughs contribute to some delays, data indicates.
Digital Government
Court ruling rolls back FCC's net-neutrality guidelines
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the FCC does not have authority to regulate the network management practices of Internet service providers. The commission had ordered Comcast to stop interfering with customers’ peer-to-peer traffic.
Digital Government
DHS' updated infrastructure plan emphasizes systems resiliency
The National Infrastructure Protection Plan, updated by DHS, puts greater emphasis on the resiliency of critical systems, particularly IT systems, according to a GAO evaluation.
Digital Government
Cybergeddon: Information security as a global concern
An upcoming international summit brings together cybersecurity experts from the around the world, including Howard Schmidt, to discuss ways to protect the world’s digital infrastructure.
Cybersecurity
Another View on the Cybersecurity Act
The 2009 Cybersecurity Act has been pretty much <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090401_6424.php?oref=search">hailed</a> as a big step in correcting much of what has hobbled the effort to secure networks key to operating the day-to-day functions of the United States and government.
Digital Government
GPS Backup? What GPS Backup?
The folks over at the multiagency National Executive Committee for Space-Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing posted a <a href=http://pnt.gov/public/faq.shtml#jamming>notice</a> reminding us that the "U.S. government strongly encourages all GPS users to maintain backup capabilities for positioning, navigation and timing" in case of jamming or other outages.
Ideas
Mobility Matters
In a recent <a href=http://innovation.gsa.gov/blogs/OCIO.nsf/dx/Smartphones-for-Business-Use>blog post</a>, General Services Administration Chief Information Officer Casey Coleman highlighted the proliferation of smartphone use across government and the mobility that comes with them. Sure, smartphones enable users to check e-mail, but mobile apps also provide the capability to track packages, access databases and submit expense reports. But like any technology, smartphones present certain challenges for government users, she writes.
Digital Government
Head to Toe, Health IT Exposed
For gearheads and policy wonks who quiver at the mention of health IT (and you know who you are), your <a href="http://www.healthaffairs.org/1500_about_journal.php">"swimsuit issue"</a> hits stands today. That's right, the entire issue of Health Affairs magazine is devoted to ... wait for it ... glistening full-body coverage of the "benefits and limitations of electronic health record systems."
Digital Government
Opening Up on Open Government
Tom Fox of the Partnership for Public Service writes in The Washington Post's <a href="http://views.washingtonpost.com/leadership/fedcoach/2010/04/can-you-collaborate-with-a-million-people.html#more">Federal Coach column</a> on Monday about how the public sector faces unique challenges in order to collaborate effectively. Federal leaders are required to collaborate up and down their agencies' chain of command, among leaders in other agencies, with state and local partners, private sector insurers and 300 million citizens, Fox writes, pointing to such demands as the key reasons why public sector leadership is so challenging.
Digital Government
iEnvy: Do BlackBerry users need an iPad?
The apps available for Apple's sleek new iPad have many BlackBerry-carrying feds drooling, but BlackBerry also offers a robust, if lesser-known, app store, says GCN Lab Director John Breeden.
Modernization
Open-government groups set to score agencies' transparency plans
Advocates for open government plan to score agencies' open government plans, planned to be released April 7.
Digital Government
AHRQ publishes data formats for some electronic reporting
The Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality has released its updated version of common data formats to enable electronic reporting of patient safety data.
Digital Government
Air Force names new chief information officer
Brig. Gen. Ian R. Dickinson will head up communications and information activities at Headquarters Air Force Space Command.
Cybersecurity
Navy withheld data breach information for more than a year
The Navy knew right away that 244 employees' Social Security numbers had been released. Why did officials wait for 17 months before telling them?
Digital Government