Digital Government
Coburn questions OMB's delays on data
USASpending.gov doesn't include subcontract and subgrant data, although 2006 legislation required the data to be available online by Jan. 1, senator says.
Ideas
Avoiding a Space Arms Race
Bob Brewin reported on a House Armed Services Committee hearing held on Wednesday during which a consultant with the Council on Foreign Relations said the United States should pursue anti-satellite weapons that could disable foreign-operated satellites.
Digital Government
'AHLTA is Intolerable'
That's the title of the <a href=http://www.house.gov/hasc/calendar_next_week.shtml>hearing</a> that the House Armed Service Committee's subcommittee on Joint Military Personnel and Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities plans to hold on March 24. It will be on the Defense Department's AHLTA (<a href= http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/02/oh_ahlta_is_a_proper_noun.php>remember, not an acronym</a>) electronic health record system.
Digital Government
Casscells Plans to Leave In April
I've learned that Casscells, who <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20080718_9200.php>told me a year ago</a> that Military Health System clinicians found AHLTA "intolerable" plans to end his tour as the Defense "Top Doc" at the end of April.
Modernization
NASA plans Webcast about the sun
The event will reveal new information and images about the Earth’s sun and its influence on the solar system, NASA says.
Cybersecurity
R&D work vulnerable to cyber threats
A group of experts urged action to stop the effects cyber attacks could have on research and the economy.
Modernization
Officials struggle with data for Recovery.gov
Gathering quality data to report economic stimulus spending will be difficult, the chairman of the stimulus act oversight board told Congress.
Digital Government
TSA lacks technology to meet air cargo screening goal
Lawmaker says Congress might have to take steps to help the agency reach a August 2010 deadline to screen all cargo transported on passenger planes for weapons of mass destruction.
Digital Government
Obama official agrees more needs to be done on stimulus transparency
Stimulus oversight chief Earl Devaney told members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that firm estimates of how much of the $787 billion stimulus funds had been dispensed by federal agencies were not yet available.
Digital Government
Behavioral analytics could extend identity management security
Government Computer News
Digital Government
Defense urged to develop a weapon to disable foreign satellites
But advice comes with warnings about costs, creating destructive space debris and unleashing a new arms race.
Digital Government