Digital Government
Defense, VA plan to have interoperable health records by September
The two departments will exchange doctors' clinical notes in a test environment this June.
Modernization
Networx prime contractors and their teammates
A roundup of the prime contractors and their teammates on the Networx contract.
Cybersecurity
Tech aids coordination on inauguration security
D.C. police, feds use new tool to share reports on suspicious activity during inauguration festivities.
Modernization
GSA, YouTube still at the negotiation table
Requirements in YouTube’s terms-of-use agreement do not fit with government requirements, experts say.
People
Obama names six OMB officials
Positions filled include executive associate director and associate director for general government programs.
Cybersecurity
Bush appointees linked with company lobbying, report says
Fifteen former Cabinet-level officials in the Bush administration are now working for companies that lobby their former agencies, according to a report from a government watchdog group.
Acquisition
GSA works to improve Schedule 70 operations
GSA officials want to return the $16 billion IT contract program to its former prestige.
Cybersecurity
Outgoing intell chief discusses cybersecurity challenge
The government's cybersecurity initiative is not as far along as Mike McConnell, the outgoing director of national intelligence, would like.
People
In the News: Change.gov becomes Whitehouse.gov at noon Tuesday
The Web site will be a laboratory for interactive government, or 'open-sourced democracy.'
Modernization
Inauguration news posted to social-networking sites
GSA, inauguration committee provide news and updates via blogs, Facebook and Twitter
People
In the News: McConnell says policy will boost info sharing
Outgoing director of national intelligence says policies must 'marry up to technology,' CQ Politics reports.
Ideas
CTO Update: Nix Warrior and Kundra
Sources say <a href="http://techinsider.nextgov.com/2009/01/warrior_or_kundra_for_cto.php">speculation</a> that Barack Obama's federal chief technology officer will be either Padmasree Warrior, the CTO at Cisco Systems, or Vivek Kundra, the CTO for Washington, D.C., is not correct.
Ideas
Warrior or Kundra for CTO?
Business Week <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2009/tc20090115_815265.htm">reported</a> that Barack Obama will appoint as the federal chief information officer either Padmasree Warrior, the CTO at Cisco Systems or Vivek Kundra, the CTO for Washington, D.C.
Digital Government
Electronic health record glitch put VA patients at risk
The House veterans affairs panel chairman ties poor management to problems with latest upgrade of the department’s EHR system.
Digital Government
Bush orders reciprocity for employment suitability decisions
President George W. Bush today ordered agencies to accept other agencies' decisions on the fitness and suitability for their jobs for some federal employees and contractors.
Modernization
DARPA funds junior researchers
The program seeks to develop new ideas to deal with the Defense Department's needs.
Modernization