Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity legislation clears Senate committee
Bill includes certification and compliance mandates for the private sector.
Modernization
Health care reform bill targets technology to improve medical services
Funding included for development of primary care models that integrate decision support tools and remote diagnostics for both doctors and patients.
Ideas
Open Government = Another Buzzword?
Opening up the government means more than just putting information out there, said Rachel Flagg, General Services Administration web content manager and Federal Web Managers Council co-chair, during a panel discussion Tuesday at GovSec, a government security expo in Washington, D.C.
Cybersecurity
The Beginning of the End for FISMA?
Tomorrow could likely be the first day of a new era for cybersecurity in the United States. The Obama administration is expected to unveil new information that will end security by wasteful paper-based compliance measures.
Ideas
New Cookie Rules, April 7
The White House early next month plans to change a federal Web site policy that bans tracking devices called cookies, which many commercial sites use to customize their pages for users, administration officials said on Tuesday.
Digital Government
Health Reform's Tech Angle
One of the least covered areas in the health care debate was the amount of technology that underlies the reforms, at least not in the mainstream media. But for the reforms to bring down costs as the Obama administration envisions, it's going to take a lot of applied technology.
Digital Government
Nation Building Starts with Telecom
The Defense Information Systems Agency wants some really smart folks to help it, the Central Command, the State Department and the Agency for International Development to <a href=https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=d469343af62d27ddf38abe886cd37b5f&tab=core&_cview=0>build an information communications technology infrastructure</a> for Afghanistan.
Digital Government
Workforce Key Concern for Agency CIOs
Managing and developing a top-notch IT workforce remains a key challenge for federal chief information officers, according to a new survey by TechAmerica and Grant Thornton.
Modernization
Most visitors to GSA's Apps.gov are window shoppers
GSA official laments that more federal agencies are not taking advantage of the cloud computing deals available on Apps.gov.
Digital Government
NIST to map road to digital record preservation
NIST is hosting the first of an important series of meetings next week as a first step toward developing a national road map to digital record preservation.
People
A practical way to spice things up for new contracting employees
Give high-school grads some of the routine work, so the specialists can engage their minds with bigger challenges.
Cybersecurity
Cyber criminals getting specialized, FBI says
Cyber criminals are spending their time getting good at one specific skill for cyber crime, a senior FBI official said today.
Modernization
Social media likely coming to Vets health portal
Veterans Affairs officials plan to add social-media style tools to the portal veterans use to access health records, a VA officials said today at the 2010 FOSE conference.
Digital Government
IT plays critical role in health care reform
Health information technology and electronic health records (EHRs) underpin many of the provisions in the comprehensive health reform legislation passed by Congress and signed into law by the president.
Digital Government
DOD still struggling with best approach to social media
Jack Holt of the Defense Department's Defense Media Activity says a clear doctrine for social media use is needed.
People
Agencies walk a tightrope between cost savings and innovation
Civilian agencies and military services take different paths to making technology investment decisions.
People
SSA bracing for IT worker retirements, IG says
The Social Security Administration has had a good run in hiring new IT workers, but its luck may be running out as it faces a wave of IT staff retirements, according to a new report.
Cybersecurity
Local police falling behind on cybercrime, former chief says
Bill Bratton, former chief of the Los Angeles and New York City police departments, said police departments have the knowledge, but lack the resources to attack cybercrime.
Acquisition