Digital Government
Banking on privacy
States and the federal government take contrasting approaches to building large medical record repositories.
People
Congress to act on workforce shortage
Rep. Moran eyes DOD spending bill as vehicle for acquisition changes.
Acquisition
Editorial: A missed opportunity
GSA Administrator Lurita Doan's recent testimony before the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee was a spectacle that amounted to very little.
Digital Government
Editor's letter: Health care tipping points
The National Health Information Network must balance the fecundity and folly of today's commercial Internet.
People
Finding Foreman
George Foreman named his five sons George. Will the National Health Information Network be able to pinpoint his health records? Maybe. Maybe not.
People
Defense transformation searches for new identity
But uncertainty remains about what realignment means for innovation.
People
An unfinished net for catching terrorists
DOD and ODNI have made significant progress in sharing intelligence information, but critics worry that the rest of government is being left behind.
People
Sprehe: Missing the point
Information management suffers when agencies focus too obsessively on risk management.
People
Blogs are no blip
Are blogs just fads, or can they play an important role in opening government to the public?
Cybersecurity
OMB: FIPS matters
Agencies have not been requiring vendors to meet mandatory FIPS cryptography standard.
Modernization
‘Green’ computers can replace toxic PCs
Transportation Security Administration has bought 450 green PCs in past 6 months.
Modernization
Jazzed about IPv6
Education’s Peter Tseronis gets the message on government’s mandatory transition to IPv6.
Digital Government
DHS' performance mostly average
But the House Homeland Security Committee gave the department incomplete grades for efforts to improve border security, protect critical infrastructure and achieve satisfactory management and administrative goals.
People
STARRS guides emergency teams
8 Midwestern communities collaborate to build common emergency medical response system.
Cybersecurity
Federal IT security ratchets up a fraction
Rash of data breaches last year gets credit for scaring straight some low scorers.
Acquisition
NASA invites open-source partners
CosmosCode project will let open-source coders develop space exploration software.
People