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Army expanding, experimenting with tablets
The Army is building on the popularity of smart phones in the field with further testing and expansion of the use of tablets for a range of applications.
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VA's online Blue Button medical app soon to add job data
The Veterans Affairs Department wants to help veterans find jobs by adding military job codes to its popular Blue Button online medical record application.
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FedRAMP to become mandatory, fed CIO says
NIST guidelines, FedRAMP and monitoring contribute to cloud security
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Cloud-computing help is on the way for agency managers
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's road map is designed to support secure adoption of cloud computing by federal agencies. Comments are due by Dec. 2.
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USAJobs drops offline due to hardware problems
The USAJobs website went offline, experiencing hardware difficulties, on Nov. 1
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SSA rebuffs IG's call for a strategic plan for online services
The heart of the dispute: Should expansions of online services be planned out well in advance, or left flexible?
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Education Dept.'s new website suffers data leak, malfunctions
While USAJobs' technical problems have been in the news, another federal website, run by the Education Department, also is experiencing performance issues.
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USAJobs on brink of becoming a political issue
The disastrous USAJobs relaunch is starting to raise the eyebrows of lawmakers and other stakeholders.
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Please, don't send it to the printer
Agencies are getting some help in kicking their expensive and wasteful paper-printing habits.
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Senator asks federal CIO to resolve USAJobs crisis
With the USAJobs website technical problems extending into a third week, Sen. John Kerry of Massachusetts is calling on Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel to get involved.
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Defense cyber chief: The cloud is the military's next Internet
Computers and programs must be linked to a central, remote environment that aligns security departmentwide, Cyber Command leader Keith Alexander says.
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New e-rulemaking site facilitates participation
A joint project of the Transportation Department and Cornell University focuses on maximizing informed discussion of proposed federal rules.
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E-rulemaking gets a fresh push
A steady interest in Web technologies to simplify and spur public participation in e-rulemaking is beginning to show results.
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OPM says capacity issues for USAJobs resolved
A senior official in charge of the USAJobs federal job search website said the agency is now addressing search problems, but users continue to complain about site performance.
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