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Health IT needs more functionality, CIO says
Theresa Cullen, CIO of the Indian Health Service, said health IT leaders should create more functionality in their systems, including the ability to track diseases without current lag times.
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Power IT Down Day encourages government, industry to unplug
Microsoft Corp. will join Citrix, Hewlett-Packard and Intel to encourage government and industry to be responsible with energy consumption on the second annual Power IT Down Day.
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Lisagor: Hybrid networks promise better performance
One predicted trend for the next year is the rise of hybrid topologies/infrastructures, in which an agency might have a combination of internal servers for the more meat-and-potato functions, coupled with an external system such as Amazon’s S3 to “cloud burst,” or take up the slack, for files that are really popular.
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Report provides open government suggestions
A report by the National Academy of Public Administration looks at suggestions on how the federal government can be more transparent.
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Agencies adapt FOIA ops to new requirements
Agencies are using various automated systems to reduce administrative costs and comply with new rules for responding to Freedom of Information Act requests.
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EPA to get Virtual Earth technology
The Environmental Protection Agency will use Microsoft’s Virtual Earth Mapping technology to display geospatial information.
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Google's Washington presence keeps growing
Company unveils search tool, the latest in a series of products that attract federal agencies.
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Klossner: Virtual training
FCW cartoonist John Klossner ponders the difficulty of visual humor in a networked world.
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Kundra: Government must tap into Web 2.0's potential
Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, speaking at the American Council of Technology and Industry Advisory Council's Management of Change Conference, said the government must tap Web 2.0's dynamic functionality.
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Cybersecurity Policy Will Pose Challenges, Security Pros Say
Now that there's some movement toward a U.S. cybersecurity policy, it's time to roll up the sleeves and get to work, and that task won't be easy, software security experts suggested on Friday.
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GSA offers e-Buy to state and local governments
GSA’s online tool used to get quotes from approved vendors is now available to state and local governments.
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DHS to scrutinize service contracts
As part of an efficiency initiative, DHS officials will perform an extra review on all professional service contracts over $1 million starting immediately.
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DISA seeks on-demand communications
The Defense Information Systems Agency wants to build an on-demand communications system.
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Obama directs review of data classifications
President Barack Obama has directed a review of how the government classifies information and how it handles sensitive but unclassified data.
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