Digital Government
Study finds a widening gap between best, worst congressional Web sites
The Congressional Management Foundation rated all 620 congressional Web sites on anywhere from 49 to 93 criteria and found what it called a digital divide on the Hill: The most common grades were A and F.
Digital Government
The top threats to government systems, and where they're coming from
Symantec’s Government Internet Threat Security Report describes a threat landscape dominated by Web-based attacks and targeted persistent threats in which it is difficult to identify the attacker.
Digital Government
SEC porn surfing draws Republican ire
Senior staff should have been focused on the financial sector's problems, lawmakers say.
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>:
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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:
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