Modernization

Pentagon offers online NSPS transition course

The training program is an information primer for the 200,000 employees who will be transitioning out of the National Security Personnel System.

People

Telework: From "What if…" to "What now?"

For longtime advocates of telework in government, February's Snowmageddon was a mess just waiting to happen.

Digital Government

Is your cell phone trying to kill you?

Studies that link cell phone use to cancer probably aren't going to scare us into not using them, but is the risk even real? GCN Lab's Greg Crowe has some thoughts.

Digital Government

DOD lifts ban on USB drives

The Defense Department has lifted its 15-month-old ban on USB drives and other portable media, a restriction that had proved to be unpopular as well as potentially unenforceable.

Digital Government

Small-biz Powertek gets prominent ex-fed as COO

Dan Mintz, former Transportation Department chief information officer under the Bush administration, has left Computer Sciences Corp. to become chief operating officer at Powerteck.

Digital Government

What is the Navy Privacy Team reading?

Steve Muck, a member of Navy Chief Information Officer Robert Carey’s privacy team, offers these recommendations.

Digital Government

On the Circuit: A blog about all things in government IT

The Circuit blog chronicles events, people, career moves and other other news from the government IT community.

Digital Government

Smart IDs slow to catch on

Federal Times

Modernization

HHS plans move to cloud for regional centers

Government Computer News

Digital Government

Army studying use of virtual reality to treat post-traumatic stress

With more than a third of veterans from the Iraq and Afghanistan wars suffering from PTSD, the service wants to compare the new therapy with traditional methods.

Cybersecurity

Obama's Tech Team

The administration is full of executives with high technology IQs.

Digital Government

Challenges loom in expanded use of unmanned systems

Senior Air Force intelligence officer raises concerns about joint operations, airspace control.

Digital Government

Transportation secretary unveils sample texting bill for states

Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood on Monday released sample state legislation to help states in crafting laws that would prohibit text messaging while driving.

Digital Government

Army division uses IT to gain comprehensive view of finances

Research center got business managers involved in designing a system that tracks costs and performance.

Ideas

Over the Moon @Nasa

Walter Cronkite may be dead, and we no longer have the sense that television can bring the nation to the moon at the same time, but Nasa's Twitter feed manages to give its 270,000 followers the chance to almost be in space with its astronauts -- in real time.