Digital Government
NSF commissions supercomputer to visualize ever-larger data sets
Government Computer News
Digital Government
Homeland Security kicks off final strategy dialogue
Comments and suggestions submitted through a Web portal will be incorporated into a report due to Congress by the end of the year.
Digital Government
Federal IT contractors find domestic sourcing an alternative to offshoring
Some technology vendors place jobs in small towns rather than overseas, but the practice also is forced by federal agencies that restrict work from being sent off shore.
Digital Government
Interagency office put in charge of DoD/VA lifetime e-record project
Some express concern about team's sweeping joint mission, especially in the absence of a permanent director.
Ideas
Transparency, Free Speech, Privacy
The civil liberties group Center for Democracy and Technology on Tuesday highlighted an interesting question facing the administration as it promotes technology as a tool for increasing transparency: Is there such a thing as too much transparency?
Digital Government
Filippi to Run Data Exchange?
I've picked up low to medium strength signals that <a href=http://wid.ndia.org/PDF/9WI3_Filippi_Debra_OSD_BIO.pdf>Debra Filippi</a>, the Defense Department's information sharing executive, has emerged as a likely candidate to run the joint interagency program office in charge of sharing information -- including <a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/09/interoperability_deadline_looms.php>electronic health information</a> -- between the Defense and the Veterans Affairs Department.
Digital Government
Health Premiums to Rise 7.4%
Federal health premiums will rise by an average of 7.4 percent in 2010, according to the Office of Personnel Management. The average increase includes the government's share and employee's share of the overall premium.
People
Retooled Recovery.gov site praised, panned
The upgraded version of the Recovery.gov Web site for tracking spending under the economic stimulus law impresses some visitors, but doesn't others.
Digital Government
NASA to update schedule for coming IT acquisitions
NASA soon will release a new schedule for opening competition on five information technology services contracts estimated to be worth a total of more than $4 billion.
Digital Government
OPM Stops Projecting Retirements
FederalNewsRadio.com <a href="http://www.federalnewsradio.com/index.php?nid=35&sid=1773193">reports</a> that the Office of Personnel Management will no longer project the retirements of federal employees, largely because previous predictions have not held up.
Modernization
When custom software was king
Custom technology used to be the only option for government agencies, but now commercial products address most needs, experts say.
People
Progress still slow on electronic health record adoption
The use of electronic health records is being held back by a debate over patients' rights, industry officials said today.
People