Digital Government

Kundra to agencies: Get ready for data deluge

Web 2.0 technology will lead to an explosion of new and varied data sent to government, federal CIO Kundra says.

People

DOD at work on social media policy

The first day of the Open Government and Innovations Conference featured lively discussions about transparency and innovation.

Cybersecurity

Companies, academics form coalition to promote open-source software

The applications programs support Obama's call for transparency, collaboration and public participation, say founders of Open Source for America.

Digital Government

Lawmaker to introduce bill to require biometric verification of workers

Sen. Charles Schumer says the E-Verify system is easily fooled and must include a requirement to check job applicants' fingerprints or photos.

People

Who's on First?

Key IT and acquisition jobs remain unfilled in the Obama administration and even the rumormill is strangely quiet.

Ideas

Energy's Chu on Facebook

From the Wall Street Journal's Digits blog:

Digital Government

VistA iPhone Apps

That's the approach Veterans Affairs Department Chief Information Officer Roger Baker told me he plans go take in fixing the problem information technology projects <a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/07/va_gets_real_suspends_45_it_pr.php>halted</a> by VA Secretary Eric Shinseki on Friday.

Cybersecurity

Emergency IT authority for FERC gains support

Support is growing for proposals to give the Federal Energy Regulatory Commission additional authority to act during an emergency involving a cyberattack on the country's electric power system.

Digital Government

Pay Reform for Federal IT

My former beat partner Alyssa Rosenberg has a couple of great stories on <a href="http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=43207&dcn=todaysnews">civil service reform</a> from Monday's Excellence in Government conference sponsored by <em>Government Executive</em>. In a speech, Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry called for a comprehensive overhaul of the federal civil service, from recruitment and hiring to pay and training.