Digital Government
Army plans to create huge enterprise e-mail system
Contract would consolidate nearly 1 million accounts onto one platform and outsource the program to cut the $400 million the service spends on managing current systems.
Digital Government
Geospatial preparedness checklist
A committee of the National Academies' National Research Council studied the role of geospatial data and tools in emergency management and produced this checklist that outlines the most valuable types of geospatial data and real-time data collection methods.
Digital Government
Transparency for Vets
The <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090401_5914.php>transparency thing</a> touted by President Obama in his first full day in office evidently does not apply to all patient safety alerts issued by the Veterans Affairs Department.
Digital Government
Are Feds Overpaid?
<em>USA Today</em> has an interesting <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2010-03-04-federal-pay_N.htm">article</a> that claims that federal employees earn higher average salaries than private-sector workers in several occupations, including information technology. According to Bureau of Labor Statistics data, federal workers earned an average salary of $67,691 in 2008 for occupations that exist both in government and the private sector, while average pay for the same jobs in the private sector was $60,046 in 2008, the article states.
Acquisition
Tony Costa named GSA associate administrator
Costa will find areas where GSA can compile a package of agencywide services to offer its clients.
Digital Government
Government maps path to geospatial data
Geospatial experts see game-changing shift in geospatial technology, empowering federal managers not just geospatial specialists.
People
People on the move, events in the news
The General Services Administration has picked three new regional administrators.
Digital Government
Help a govlooper
When Antonia Broadwell, wife of former U.S. Geological Survey employee David Broadwell, was diagnosed with a serious form of cancer, the GovLoop community swung into action.
Modernization
DOD brass takes jaundiced view of thumb drives
The thumb drive, the ubiquitous device that has revolutionized portable computer storage and cornered the market on conference souvenirs, can't quite shake its reputation in the Defense Department as a modern-day Typhoid Mary.
Digital Government
DOD welcomes Web 2.0 to its networks
Defense Department officials released a long-awaited set of policy directives for the use of social networking and other Internet technologies, a move that earned positive and negative reactions.
Cybersecurity
Are DHS contractors running amok?
Two heavyweights from the Senate want to know who is running the shop at the Homeland Security Department. And whoever it is, the department's inspector general would like to speak with them.
Digital Government
Generational Views on Privacy
Wired Workplace was in San Francisco on Thursday covering the RSA Conference. Given my interest in generational issues, I was particularly interested in a session titled "Security and the Generation Gap," conducted by Bruce Schneier, a technologist and leading author on security issues. I expected the session to focus on some of the research about how different generations, particularly Millennials, perceive information security and privacy. Instead, the session focused on the responsibilities that all generations currently hold to protect privacy and ensure individuals, not technological systems, have control.
Cybersecurity
Uncle Cyber Sam wants you
The cyber spooks and watchdogs in the Obama administration are coming out of the shadows, making a full-court press to engage industry and the public in their crusade against cyber war.
Digital Government
Navy picks pair for shipboard network support
Contracts are for CANES program, designed to streamline and consolidated Navy information technology networks aboard its ships.
Digital Government
E-Retirement System on the Way?
Modernizing the federal government's retirement system, including moving from paper to electronic records, has long been a priority of the Office of Personnel Management. But as I <a href="http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1008/101608b2.htm?oref=rellink">reported</a> back in 2008, modernizing the system has not been without its challenges.
Digital Government
IT companies strut their stuff for feds
Kathy Ireland hosted a federal information technology fashion show on March 4.
Acquisition
Note to DOD IG: "Assisted acquisition" does mean "provide help"
DOD IG guidance moves GSA's Office of Assisted Services in the wrong direction, subtracting rather than adding value for their government customers.
Digital Government
Kaiser official defends security practices for veterans health data
Electronic data exchange safer than U.S. Mail, Kaiser official says.
Acquisition