Digital Government
GAO: Defense and VA are making progress on data-sharing
Departments can exchange health records electronically, report says, but joint program office lacks organization and performance measures.
Digital Government
Rep. urges market research on airline screening devices
Homeland Security officials apparently ignored the advice of top scientists and failed to conduct market research on airline passenger screening technology.
Digital Government
Government takes layered approach to aviation security
House members say Homeland Security should make a greater effort to gauge the public's response to potential passenger screening technologies.
Modernization
National Science Foundation and Microsoft ink cloud computing partnership
The National Science Foundation and Microsoft announced a partnership on Thursday that will provide the agency funded researchers with free access to Microsoft's Windows Azure cloud computing services.
Digital Government
FDA rolls out computerized import regulatory system
Commissioner says agency needs to adapt to changing times.
Digital Government
Federal CIO begins selling huge IT consolidation plan
Vivek Kundra meets with tech industry to outline initiative to move computer services out of departments in a bid to focus agency chief information officers on applications that serve citizens.
Digital Government
Impending storm highlights telework at agencies
White House efforts to increase telework among federal employees could get a boost from Mother Nature.
Digital Government
California CIO Next Defense CIO?
I'm picking up very strong signals that the White House has started to vet <a href=http://www.cio.ca.gov/About/takai.html>Teri Takai</a>, who has served as the California's chief information officer for the past two years, as the next CIO of the Defense Department.
Ideas
Johnson to GSA by Friday?
Martha Johnson, whose confirmation to head the General Services Administration has been held up for months by Senate Republicans, may be at work as early as Friday, say sources knowledgeable about the process. The Senate is expected to vote to close debate and move on her confirmation via unanimous consent.
Ideas
GAO: NASA IT Security Needs Attention
NASA, already in the spotlight for a budget that scraps plans to return to the moon, received more negative publicity from federal auditors on Wednesday about ongoing information security problems.
Digital Government
Will cyberattacks lead to bomb-and-bullets war?
Until now, the combination of cyber and war sparked notions of virtual armies slamming away at each other in cyberspace, a nasty confrontation online but relatively harmless for regular folks.
Digital Government
What's on Martha Dorris' reading list?
Recommendations from the deputy associate administrator of the Office of Citizen Services and Communications at the General Services Administration.
Digital Government
Cognitive radios would give future warfighters upper hand
Smart radios could do everything but turn themselves on -- if Army researchers can make them a reality.
Digital Government
The Retirement Wave Opportunity
An aging federal workforce combined with rapid technological change have long been considered as challenges to future government performance. The <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/">fiscal 2011 budget proposal</a> unveiled by the White House on Monday again poses such issues as pending challenges for government, but it also highlights the potential opportunities they may bring.
Ideas
Google Goes to Washington -- Again
If ever there were doubts about Google ruling the world (or at least parts of it), a recent addition to President Obama's technology focused staff might settle some uncertainty.
People
Obama wants faster program reviews and more agency input
The administration wants to continually streamline what works and eliminate what doesn't work.
Digital Government
HHS budget highlights IT initiatives
The Health and Human Services Department's proposed $81 billion discretionary budget for fiscal 2011 includes a few nuggets of increased IT spending.
Digital Government