Digital Government
The quick, cheap path to innovation
Inexpensive prototypes make it feasible to test new ideas and get user feedback.
Digital Government
The case for award-fee contracts
Award fees lead to better work from contractors — as long as they are clearly defined.
Cybersecurity
Marines' social-media ban is bad for morale
Rather than telling troops to get off Twitter and Facebook, the military should educate them about security.
Modernization
6 out-of-this-world government sites in Second Life
Teleport your avatar to one of the federal government's Second Life outposts to learn more about NASA space missions or NOAA's environmental studies.
Digital Government
Agents crippled by tech deployment delays along Southwest border
Border Patrol must rely on old, unreliable equipment to protect crossings and reduce illegal immigration.
Digital Government
Government needs smarter IT to oversee bailout, financial overhaul
Information systems that aggregate data on troubled areas of the financial system could strengthen oversight, says industry and open government advocates.
Digital Government
Agencies should plan now to enable IPv6 on public-facing servers
As the pool of IPv4 addresses dries up, agencies need to begin planning now for an Internet whose growth will be in the IPv6 address space, according to American Registry for Internet Numbers President John Curran.
Digital Government
The $75B Intelligence Budget
Talking to reporters yesterday about the new <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090915_2113.php">National Intelligence Strategy</a>, Director of National Intelligence Dennis Blair <a href="http://www.dni.gov/interviews/20090915_interview.pdf">said</a> the strategy would serve as a blueprint for a 200,000 person strong, $75 billion national intelligence enterprise.
Ideas
LOC Highlights Uses of Digital Library
Once again, the Library of Congress demonstrates how federal government should not only utilize information technology, but also market the initiatives to actually encourage support and adoption. Tuesday the largest library in the world, which currently touts nearly 142 million items in its collections, demonstrated to 100 guests -- many from academia -- the potential of its World Digital Library in education.
Digital Government
Tech Touted in Clearance Reform
The Office of Personnel Management has increased the efficiency in which the government completes security clearances, completing 90 percent of background investigations in an average of 37 days, the agency's director told the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs federal workforce subcommittee on Tuesday. In 2005, the average time needed to obtain a Top Secret security clearance was in excess of one year, Berry said, while today it is only 72 days.
Digital Government
Navy could run two years late on business systems upgrade, GAO finds
Poor management controls are slowing the implementation of the Navy's Enterprise Resource Planning project and driving up costs, according to GAO.
Digital Government
IT Leadership Awards
Consulting firm (ISC)2 on Tuesday announced the final nominees for its sixth annual Government Information Security Leadership Awards. The awards honor individuals who have significantly enhanced the information security workforce by demonstrating a leadership role in any information security workforce improvement initiative, program or project on either a government-wide or agency-specific basis. The program recognizes IT workers from each of the following categories:
Digital Government
Health IT panel approves intermediaries for data
Health and Human Services Department's Health IT Standards Committee has adopted a framework for the flow of patient data to be collected and aggregated to measure the quality of care.
Digital Government