Cybersecurity
GSA, DOD seek data encryption under SmartBuy
Federal agencies could take advantage of volume discounts when they buy encryption software through the SmartBuy program.
Modernization
Rainy-day lessons about resiliency
The Internal Revenue Service revamped its continuity-of-operations plans following a damaging flood that shut down its headquarters building in Washington, D.C., for more than five months.
Digital Government
Feldman: Twin win: Privacy and e-health
This transformative system will reach a critical mass of acceptance by health care consumers, providers and facility-operators only when the public feels assured that privacy is priority No. 1.
Digital Government
Opelka: E-prescribing is safe and private
Critics are spreading misinformation that could prevent patients from reaping benefits.
People
Keeping modernization on track
The Internal Revenue Service is in the midst of one of the most protracted of all systems renovations as it modernizes its Master File taxpayer account system.
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