Cybersecurity
DHS sets new policy on computer searches at border
DHS issued two new directives that deal with searches of laptop computers and other devices at U.S. borders.
Modernization
Air Force angers small businesses with code decision
Officials are opting for a NAICS code that sets a larger small-business size standard after switching this spring from a code with a more restrictive size standard.
People
VA blames coding error for fatal disease scare
The VA now blames computer coding error for wrongly informing about 620 veterans that they have the fatal Lou Gehrig's disease.
People
SSA testing Microsoft HealthVault
SSA has made an agreement with Microsoft HealthVault to link to patient medical data to improve the determinations of disability.
Modernization
Microsoft continues battle to save Word
Microsoft's appeal essentially argues that a district court judge who held against it was incompetent as a gatekeeper and in striking the "delicate balance" needed in patent law disputes.
Modernization
Army expects new network to reduce costs 65 percent
The Army has ordered a new optical network linking White Sands and Fort Bliss that it expects to cut costs by more than half.
Modernization
Analysis: Still struggling to protect remote data
Three years after encryption mandate, transmitting information from the field continues to be risky.
Digital Government
District court rules in favor of Homeland Security on E-Verify
DHS did not violate law by requiring federal contractors to confirm work eligibility of their employees.
Digital Government
Regulations.gov glitch prevents comments from reaching agencies
July outage, revealed a month later, should have been reported immediately, transparency advocates say.
Modernization
NASA could outsource flights, insource IT
While budget woes leave future space missions in question, the department's cloud computing programs could help curb costs.
Digital Government
Despite Web 2.0 tools, government collaboration is still slow to catch on
Government Technology
Digital Government
State and local health IT spending to hit $9.6 billion by 2014
Federal Computer Week
Digital Government
IG: VA has widespread problems with management of IT projects
Report focuses on the failure of $167 million program to develop a patient appointment system.
Digital Government
CBP to continue searches of travelers' laptops
Homeland Security's new policy does not require reasonable suspicion, to the dismay of civil liberties groups.
Digital Government
Paper-Based Records Interchange?
Based on an <a href= https://www.mpm.osd.mil/documents/MRWG_June_Brief_061709Final.ppt(S).pdf>internal briefing</a> from early this summer which made its way to my inbox, it looks like the Defense Department is scanning a large heap of medical records so the Veterans Affairs Department can access them.
Ideas