Digital Government
Senator chides White House for ignoring existing transparency laws
Obama administration, for example, hasn't upgraded USAspending.gov, a searchable Web site containing all federal awards, to include subaward data, lawmaker claims.
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