Digital Government
Tech's Secret Weapon
Bloomberg.com <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/harvardbusiness?sid=Hb8395757495d4382317ee0d450c0e604">reports</a> that smart companies are eagerly working to get employees of all ages to utilize Web 2.0 tools. Their secret weapon:
Digital Government
SSA seeks more access to NHIN
The agency is considering having providers use the Nationwide Health Information Network to submit medical records that help SSA determine applicants' eligibility for federal disability payments.
Ideas
OMB's IT Dashboard is Live
As promised, federal CIO Vivek Kundra unveiled OMB's dashboard application for monitoring federal IT projects this morning at the Personal Democracy Forum Conference in New York City.
Cybersecurity
Registered Traveler: Data privacy, security prompts chairman’s inquiry
A House committee chairman is questioning TSA on its handling of personal data for the Registered Traveler program.
Modernization
Government IT spending put on full display in new Web site
A new Web site launched by OMB lets the public see how agencies are spending money on information technology.
Digital Government
GAO: Agencies may be losing money on award fees
The Office of Federal Procurement Policy issued guidance in 2007 on awarding contractors award fees that would save money, but many agencies haven't instilled the guidance, auditors say.
Digital Government
No easy solutions for federal IT, VA's CIO says
A legacy infrastructure will delay government's adoption of Web 2.0 technologies and make it harder to secure federal networks, says Roger Baker.
Modernization
Poetry, radio and Web 2.0 tools part of the battle in Afghanistan
New strategy is aimed at countering insurgents' threatening messages to win over the local population, says communications director for U.S. Forces.
Digital Government
Web site offers glimpse of how IT projects are performing
Dashboard shows whether initiatives are running on schedule and within budget.
Ideas
Web Managers Drowning in Data
Our colleagues at the Tech Daily Dose blog report that Sheila Campbell, manager for government Web best practices and co-chairwoman of the Federal Web Managers Council in the General Services Administration's Office of Citizen Services, pegs the number of federal Web sites at about 24,000, the same number that's been used for years, although some have said it's higher than 25,000.
Digital Government
Cost of Selling 'Net Monitoring to Iran
In the case of Siemens Medical, the answer comes out to at least $267 million, the value of the <a href=http://www.defenselink.mil/contracts/contract.aspx?contractid=3995>three-year contract</a> the Defense Department awarded the company in March for radiology systems.
Digital Government
Latest to the Greatest
I tuned in on Tuesday to the intergenerational workshop headlined by Energy Department researchers Sean Clayton and Jeffrey Vargas. (Alyssa Rosenberg and I highlighted their work in the July 2008 <a href="http://www.govexec.com/features/0708-01/0708-01s1.htm">cover story</a> of <em>Government Executive</em>). The researchers noted that by 2013, members of Generation Y (aged 18-29) will represent 40 percent of the nation's workforce. As the government moves toward this shift, they said, younger workers should capitalize on their technological expertise. "Technology is your entry card," Vargas said. "It's the way you're going to get managers to listen to you and welcome you as part of the team."
Cybersecurity