People
Web 2.0 enables transparency goals
The government can achieve its goal of creating a digital public square by using Web 2.0 tools to reduce the effort needed.
Modernization
Information fuels social media
Social-networking tools such as Twitter, Facebook and others are just that: tools. Good content or information is still necessary to make those tools successful.
Cybersecurity
Bill would ban peer-to-peer use in agencies
A House committee chairman who has jurisdiction over some government operations plans to introduce a bill designed to ban the use of peer-to-peer software on government and contractor networks.
Digital Government
Performance management sticks around
The Obama administration, under the guiding hand of the impressive Chief Performance Officer Jeff Zients, has re-jiggered the Bush administration approach to performance measurement in a positive direction.
Digital Government
Senate Committee OKs Hiring Bill
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a bill on Wednesday to streamline the federal recruiting and hiring process. The bill (<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.736:">S. 736</a>) requires agencies to:
Cybersecurity
Group opposes making contractors use E-Verify
The Professional Services Council opposes Senate legislation would require federal contractors to use the E-Verify system for new and existing employees.
Digital Government
L.A. freeways set to get futuristic 'smart studs' to help guide traffic
The Los Angeles Times
Cybersecurity
Federal IT spending to increase modestly thanks to cloud computing
Research firm predicts government will increase its technology budget 3.3 percent a year for five years, with cloud computing exploding at a 27 percent annual rate.
Digital Government
Army awards contracts to build sophisticated supply chain network
The Automatic Identification Technology IV contract covers the supply of hardware such as bar code printers and scanners and Wi-Fi gear to network a range of systems.
Modernization
Myers to head Defense Threat Reduction Agency
Kenneth A. Myers III has been selected to serve as the director of the Defense Threat Reduction Agency at Fort Belvoir, the Defense Department announced July 27.
Digital Government
Social Networking Vulnerabilities
The Defense Department has started to analyze the vulnerabilities of social networking sites and Web 2.0 technologies such as Facebook and Twitter, Pentagon spokesman Air Force Lt. Col. Eric Butterbaugh said in a statement.
Digital Government