Modernization
Will data center history repeat itself?
Obama administration officials who are dead set on consolidating data centers across government might profit from talking with former Clinton administration officials, who undertook a similar task nearly 15 years ago—with depressing results.
Digital Government
Security agencies release Top 25 programming errors
Developers of the Top 25 list of programming errors include DHS, NSA, MITRE and the SANS Institute, and they hope to have the list included in standard contract language that would help make software developers accountable for the security of their products.
Digital Government
GSA, DISA launch commercial satellite solicitation
The General Services Administration has added two new special item numbers for commercial satellite communications services to Federal Supply Schedule 70.
Digital Government
Health IT systems vulnerable to server failures, study reveals
Three-quarters of the 102 health IT professionals surveyed said they experienced downtime related to a server failure during the past two years.
Acquisition
Government should take a cue from consumers
A startup called Groupon provides the federal government with a good model of how to leverage buying power, writes blogger Steve Kelman.
Cybersecurity
Cyber exercise aims to teach the good guys to think like the bad guys
The National Defense University's Cybersecurity Challenge wants to educate professionals on how hackers think to better understand how to spot and stop penetration attacks.
Digital Government
Labor moves to paperless pension filing
New electronic system will bring significant savings for the department, contractor says.
Modernization
GSA's $5 billion satellite services contract targets bandwidth costs
Deal with Defense to form Future Commercial Satcom Acquisitions combines purchases for military and civilian agencies.
Digital Government
Consumer advocate says FCC broadband proposal will fall short of goals
Critic says plan would leave up to 30 million households without access.
Digital Government
VA Wants to Hear from You
The Veterans Affairs Department has opened up a new <a href=http://www.openva.ideascale.com/>Web portal</a> to solicit ideas from the public and from department employees on how it can become more transparent, collaborative and all those other open government buzzwords.
Ideas
Social Networking: In. Blogging: Out.
Teens and young adults are moving away from blogging and using Facebook and other social media sites in increasing numbers, according to a <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/02/facebook_social_networks_incre.html" target="blank">recent study</a> from the Pew Research Center.
Ideas