Acquisition
New media means smarter contracting for GSA
Developments in the field of collective intelligence could juice the General Services Administration's acquisition business, according to new GSA Administrator Martha Johnson.
Modernization
Army impressed by initial test of next generation radios
A central part of a plan to modernize brigades, radios will link units so they can transmit broadband data, including imagery.
Digital Government
Agencies to get more nuanced marks on small business contracting
Moving from a stoplight system to letter grades will increase clarity and transparency of score card, according to SBA.
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