Digital Government
Senate passes $35 billion FAA reauthorization bill
Lawmakers push agency to continue deploying upgrades to air traffic control system at the busiest U.S. airports by 2014.
Digital Government
Feds to rely on technology to make health reform law a reality
Web sites will provide the public and small businesses ways to compare insurance plans, analyze risks for heart disease and diabetes, and access to counselors to discuss weight control and stress reduction.
Cybersecurity
Study: Cybersecurity remains top concern for federal CIOs
Agency mission should drive security decisions, officials say.
Cybersecurity
This Week: The 'Game Changer'
The cybersecurity community will hit a major milestone this week when the Senate Commerce Committee begins marking up the 2010 Cybersecurity Act. Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, wrote the bill and first introduced it in early 2009.
Digital Government
New Deputy Director at HHS
The Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology is getting a new deputy director. His name is Craig Brammer and he's (now) the former project director of <a href=http://www.forces4quality.org/welcome>Aligning Forces for Quality</a> in Cincinnati.
Ideas
Google Stops Censoring, Stays In China
Google on Monday announced it has stopped filtering search results for Chinese citizens - a move that flies in the face of Chinese law - but plans to continue operating in China.
Digital Government
Health Care Reform in Your Inbox?
Over the weekend, a political blogger and the White House took aim at each other over charges that the Obama administration had sent some federal employees e-mails asking them to support health care reform.
Digital Government
How can we be at cyberwar if we don't know what it is?
Before plunging into a Cold-War style cyber arms race with our online enemies, the United States needs to decide just exactly what cyberwar is, who should fight it and how to do it.
Digital Government
Britain plans to take Gov 2.0 to the next level
Under a new proposal, every British citizen would get a personal Web site through which they learn what local services are available to them and do business with government.
Modernization
House passes e-records management bill
House lawmakers recently passed a bill that would amend laws that cover federal and presidential recordkeeping to ensure preservation of electronic messages that are records.
Digital Government
States consolidate technology in response to tough economy
Consolidating IT infrastructures used by hundreds of state government agencies not only makes financial sense but also positions states to better use technology, state CIOs say.
Digital Government
Touched by History
WHITE SANDS MISSILE RANGE, N.M. -- I had the privilege on Sunday of participating for the second time in the annual <a href=http://www.bataanmarch.com/>Bataan Memorial Death March</a> here at this sprawling Army military installation that occupies much of New Mexico south of the small city of Alamogordo.
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