Digital Government
GSA's quest for free contest app may be fruitless, some say
Request for information asks industry to provide a tool that agencies can use for managing online competitions to spur innovation and encourage public participation.
Digital Government
Telework directive for Nuclear Security Summit signals changing times
OPM director John Berry issued a memo April 7th urging federal employees who can work at home or an alternative site to do so
Digital Government
Heads Up on Upcoming EHR Study
The California HealthCare Foundation plans to release on Monday findings from a study that documents for the first time specific health benefits patients have reported from using personal health records. (Another term for electronic health records.) The study's authors also will release findings also on who are using e-records and the latest on the public's privacy concerns.
Cybersecurity
The Perils of Web 2.0
Social media use is on federal IT decisionmakers' list of the biggest security risks, according to a new <a href=http://www.lumension.com/Federal-Cyber-Security-Outlook-for-2010.aspx>report</a> from Lumension, a security company.
Ideas
DHS Testing Einstein 3
The Homeland Security Department has completed the first two stages of testing on the third and latest version of Einstein, a network security program that relies on commercially available intrusion detection services to monitor traffic in government agencies to guard against cyber threats.
Digital Government
The future of telework technology: A wish list
As teleworking grows, policies are changing and needs are increasing. Managers lay out their vision of the near future, and the technologies they'll need to get them there.
Digital Government
The emergence of the e-patient
The National Library of Medicine held a conference to highlight how patients are using health IT to help manage their own care.
Digital Government
Federal IT market poised to hit $111.9B by 2015
Input predicts that the federal market for information technology contractors will grow at a faster rate than the overall federal IT budget, hitting $111.9 billion by 2015.
People
The CIO 14 years later: Power vs. paperwork
Fourteen years after Clinger-Cohen established the job, CIOs still struggle for real control.
Digital Government
US IT pros concerned about cloud security
Nearly half of U.S. IT professionals surveyed believe that the risks of cloud computing outweigh its benefits.
Digital Government
OPM Creates IT Jobs Register
The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday announced it has launched a new tool that will enable federal agencies to find top candidates for the most commonly hired positions, including those in information technology.
People
The CIOs' growing workload
Since their position was created in 1996, federal chief information officers have experienced an increasing workload of compliance requirements.
People
So you want to be a CIO?
Here are the competencies that successful government chief information officers need.
People
Data mining:
The United States fell a couple of notches from third to fifth place in the World Economic Forum's information technology rankings.
People
Nobel Prize-worthy economic theory has lessons worth learning for federal IT
An award-winning economic theory offers insight into three important federal IT trends, Warren Suss writes.
Digital Government
Keep your contracting staff in the loop
Program managers do themselves a favor when they include contracting experts early in the process, writes Steve Kelman.
People
Coming to terms with FaceSpace
The defining question for any CIO today is whether they allow their employees to access the latest, greatest hits of Web 2.0.
Digital Government
Joint Radios in MRAPs
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. - I arrived here on Wednesday to see a demo of the Joint Tactical Radio Systems program operating in the vehicle of choice for Afghanistan and Iraq: mine resistant ambush protected vehicles. I plan to file a full report on Thursday for the Nextgov news feed.
Digital Government
VA said to save $3 billion by using health IT
A new study in Health Affairs journal says the Veterans Affairs Department saved billions by applying health IT systems to manage medical care for veterans.
People