Digital Government
House backs e-standards for financial reports
Measures are designed to make it easier for people to search data from firms that receive federal funds.
Digital Government
House plans wireless network, but can it be secure, will it work?
The House office buildings' thick marble walls; a requirement to segregate access for members, staffers and the public; and wide swings in traffic volume create one complex project.
Digital Government
Most lab results still on paper, impeding push for e-health records
Lack of standards, multiple formats and thousands of clinical terms also make establishing a national health network complex and problematic.
Digital Government
Panel: Government should educate workforce on benefits of social media
Agencies can encourage employees to embrace social media through training and adopting tools that align directly with the organization's mission, panelists say.
Ideas
Biz-Filing Transparency Bill Moves
The House on Monday evening approved legislation that would make it easier to scrutinize data on companies receiving federal funds. It would require corporations to file activity reports to agencies in a uniform business language and require agencies to ensure the public can view the standardized financial information.
Ideas
Facing 21st Century Problems
Today's news that technicians have located <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20091214_7919.php">22 million missing</a> Bush administration e-mails will be rightly viewed as a victory for the transparency community, particularly the two organizations that pursued the lawsuit. Failing to install an electronics record keeping system will go down as another failure for the Bush administration, albeit a relatively minor one.
Ideas
Science Committee Chair to Retire
Government is losing another experienced representative in technology Rep. Bart Gordon, D-Tenn., chairman of the House Science and Technology Committee, said he plans to retire, CongressDaily's Tech Daily Dose blog <a href="http://techdailydose.nationaljournal.com/2009/12/rep-gordon-to-retire.php">reports</a>.
Digital Government
DHS Launches Cyber Job Fair
The Homeland Security Department on Dec. 11 announced the launch of a virtual job fair to recruit cybersecurity experts.
Digital Government
Public or private, the cloud makes its business case
The Defense Department and Arlington County, Va., chose different paths to cloud computing.
Digital Government
Business on FTS 2001 grows despite GSA's push for Networx
GSA is pushing hard to get agencies to use Networx, but so far business on FTS 2001 continues to grow.
Digital Government
Two top GSA officials retire as agency awaits new chief
The General Services Administration is experiencing a version of musical chairs among its executives, even as the agency continues to await Senate confirmation of Martha Johnson as its new administrator.
Digital Government
DHS distributes $253M for transit security
Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano announced the availability of $253 million in grants for mass transit security.
People
Congress seeks insourcing through cataloging contracts
A spending bill headed for passage would require inventories of services contracts to show agencies’ reliance on the private sector and how agencies could save money by insourcing.
People
Social media called just another communications tool
Social media won't replace traditional communications but will instead be another way government can communicate with the public, experts said at the Government 2.5 conference.
Digital Government