Cybersecurity
As NASA shifts priorities, officials need to keep eye on cybersecurity
Some security professionals fear the space agency could rely on open communications as part of its pursuit of new programs that include automated rocket technologies.
Digital Government
DISA telecommuters can work just fine even with more snow
Virtual private networks and distributed laptops support the majority of the agency's Washington metropolitan area workers.
Digital Government
Organizations with large IT staffs are most apt to recruit via the Web
Social networking has yet to catch on as a hiring tool, but is likely to get more popular, a survey of CIOs finds.
Digital Government
Data Mining: Government spending by the numbers
Predicting IT spending; the most vulnerable Web browsers; public satisfaction with federal Web sites on the rise.
Digital Government
DISA's Star Trek Communicators
One of the most tantalizing lines buried in the <a href=http://comptroller.defense.gov/defbudget/fy2011/budget_justification/pdfs/01_Operation_and_Maintenance/O_M_VOL_1_PARTS/DISA_FY11.pdf>fiscal 2011 budget request for the Defense Information Systems Agency</a> is a $102.8 million single item for a Senior Leadership Enterprise communications system.
Digital Government
Meshing of US and allied defense sensors gaining importance
Networking of sensors could help bring about reduction in nuclear stockpiles, says military's vice chaiman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, Gen. James Cartwright
Digital Government
Agencies on track to meet open gov deadline
Most agencies will meet the Feb. 6 deadline for creating an open government Web page and securing technology for engaging with the public as required by President Barack Obama's Open Government Directive, according to the General Services Administration.
People
GSA looks to crowdsourcing to fix e-gov travel services
The agency will offer a prize worth up to $25,000 for proposing a better approach to its troubled e-gov program.
Ideas
Open Government Deadline Eve
Tomorrow (February 6) marks the next deadline in the Obama administration's Open Government Directive, the date by which agencies must have a new Web page up and running.
Ideas
NASA's Version of R2
NASA and General Motors Corp. unveiled on Thursday a robot the two organizations have developed for use in space exploration and car manufacturing. What's striking about Robonaut 2 is the dexterity of its fingers, although its thumb is rather elongated. The YouTube video below shows R2, as it is referred to, gently moving back a piece of cloth to pick up a manila envelope.
People
Meyerrose: Takai would be qualified for Defense CIO post
California CIO Teri Takai, the expected nominee as the Defense Department's chief information officer, has a proven track record in IT leadership, but the military poses a new set of challenges.
Digital Government
OPM Launches OpenGov Web Site
The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday launched its new <a href="http://openopm.ideascale.com/">open government Web site</a>. The new site is in response to President Obama's open government directive, which was issued on Dec. 8 and instructs agencies how to make the federal government more open, how to bring citizens into the policy-making process and how to collaborate with other government employees, the public and private industry. The directive requires agencies to create within 60 days an open government Web site and publish within 120 days an open government plan that describes how it will improve transparency and boost public participation.
Digital Government
Fed Health Plans Commit to Health IT
The Office of Personnel Management on Friday released a list of 45 health plans in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program that have made a commitment to health information technology through offering Internet-based personal health records and providing online tools for accessing health care quality, and price and cost information.
Modernization
Preservation Road: Visual and audio records say more than text ever could
NARA works to ensure that future generations can continue to learn from the past, and that increasingly requires the agency to digitize audiovisual records.
Ideas
DHS Wants Public Dialogue
The Homeland Security Department completed the first step of a three-step process to better link operations to agency missions by submitting a review of long-term strategic goals to Congress. Technology played a crucial role, said a DHS official, by providing representatives from all segments of the homeland security community with the opportunity to contribute.
Modernization
Library of Congress defines the state of the art at Culpeper facility
Some agencies that grapple with the challenges of maintaining video and audio recordings are looking outside the Beltway for inspiration.
Digital Government
Government has gone Tweeting mad!
Remember those cute shots last year of some members of Congress madly tweeting on their smart phones during President Obama’s first address to them? That was so yesterday.
Digital Government