Modernization

NAPA urges collaboration leadership

The administration should target priorities for open, connected and innovative government to change the way agencies operate, a report says.

Cybersecurity

Biden urges cooperation on cybersecurity

Vice President Joe Biden urged cooperation with European allies on cybersecurity during his first major foreign policy speech since becoming vice president.

Digital Government

Yuppie-izing the Marine Corps

It looks like my Marine Corps has gone yuppie. The Corps plans to issue every Marine a set of running suits better suited for K-Street lobbyists than "The Few, The Proud, The Brave," based on this <a href=http://pentagontv.feedroom.com/?fr_story=bbd12a9bb5eee92e1b3140d3b9b1dc94cca35319&rf=rss</a> Pentagon Channel clip I just watched.

Cybersecurity

Turf wars biggest challenge for CTO

Federal News Radio

Modernization

Agencies used social media to manage salmonella outbreak

Federal health officials relied on widgets, blogs, Twitter, podcasts, mobile alerts and videos to keep public up to date on tainted peanut products.

Modernization

Circling the wagons

To make the most of dwindling budget funds, state and local governments are collaborating on homeland security projects.

Modernization

Recommended Reading for Feb. 9

The case against cloud computing; Brainstorming loses favor; The inauguration, up close and personal; Lessons from the freckled CIO.

People

Autobahn or speed trap?

The tech sector is being put back in the driver’s seat in President Barack Obama’s vision for recovery.

Cybersecurity

DHS wants cybersecurity sources

The Homeland Security Department wants to learn about industry's technical capabilities for supporting DHS' National Cyber Security Division.

People

Get a Life!: Same old?

Is it the same old thing or is change occurring in government agencies where new leaders and new directions have not yet appeared? Blogger Judy Welles asks what you are doing while you wait.

Modernization

Stimulus bills excite IT community

The $900 billion economic stimulus package moving through Congress includes as much as $100 billion in IT initiatives and infrastructure investments – more than the federal government spent on all of its IT needs last year.

People

Kundra would be a 'shot in the arm'

Vivek Kundra, the presumptive nominee for OMB's e-gov and IT administrator, helped innovate D.C. government.

Modernization

IPv6: 3 more big steps to the promised land

Agencies that want to take advantage of the new generation of IP must still grapple with some basic internal management issues.