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Washington State has announced that the state Web site will incorporate Microsoft's new Bing search engine, reports Government Technology . Jim Albert, the deputy director of operations for the De... More >
Both the House and Senate are opening the floodgates for funding e-government in fiscal 2010. According to Federal News Radio , the House version of the Financial Services bill includes $33... More >
Richard Spires has been appointed the new CIO of the Department of Homeland Security, reports InformationWeek . Serving as CIO of the Internal Revenue Service has no doubt afforded him exper... More >
The Center for Democracy and Technology is asking the Obama administration to provide details about the legal authority for the so-called Einstein intrusion detection system. The fact that E... More >
The National Institutes of Health is encouraging its scientists and science writers to edit and even initiate articles on the popular cyber encyclopedia Wikipedia, according to The Washington Post... More >
According to FederalComputerWeek , the Department of Homeland Security will save $87.5 million over six years by consolidating hundreds of thousands of software licenses with Microsoft into a sing... More >
According to CNET News , the U.S. Cyber Challenge , a national talent search for high school and college students interested in working in cyber security, has officially been launched. The goal of ... More >
Will NASA become a center for federal cloud computing? The idea may not be too far-fetched, reports Nextgov . According to Mike Hecker, NASA's associate CIO for architecture and infrastructur... More >
The U.S. Census Bureau picked the Windows Mobile operating system to use on 140,000 handheld personal digital assistants for the 2010 census, reports Government Computer News . Sprint has been chos... More >
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has detailed a new plan on the use of HTTP cookies by federal agencies. InformationWeek reports that under the proposed plan federal agencies could use cookies as l... More >
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra is asking for an inventory of applications the government uses for knowledge management , reports Federal Computer Weekly . He's asked the Knowledge Management Working Grou... More >
In line with the Obama administration's quest for greater transparency, the Department of Homeland Security has revamped its Web site to include a number of Web 2.0 features like links to the depar... More >
On August 15, the Department of Defense will launch a new homepage . According to FederalComputerWeek , the new site will be a complete overhaul of the existing site using Web 2.0 technologies. &nb... More >
Lawmakers are proposing using biometrics to strengthen the E-Verify online employment eligibility verification program. Senator Charles Schumer is calling for a "tough, fair and effective em... More >
On top of the renewed contract with Honolulu-based Rehabilitation Hospital of the Pacific , the city of Irvine, Calif., also has renewed its IT services contract with Affiliated Computer Services, r... More >
Now that a personal health records pilot test by the Department of Defense has proven successful, the military is looking to expand it more widely, according to InformationWeek . The servic... More >
More than 70 companies, academic institutions, communities, groups and individuals have joined forces to form Open Source for America , an organization that seeks to promote open source software in ... More >
According to a private study by the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton, federal agencies are struggling to get a workforce capable of meeting the cyber challenge, reports The A... More >
Following a scathing report by the Government Accountability Office that highlighted "persistent weaknesses" in the information security controls deployed by the government agencies, federal CIO Vive... More >
According to Government Computer News , you can now get an overview of economic stimulus law spending by state, federal department and recipient thanks to new mapping features on the Recovery.gov ... More >
The General Services Administration has inked a blanket agreement with five vendors to provide agencies with advanced cyber security tools designed to prevent attacks before they happen, reports N... More >
Government Technology reports that Los Angeles is considering replacing its e-mail and records retention systems with hosted products from Google. The proposed contract would be for five years and... More >
When federal CIO Vivek Kundra announced plans for an Internet-based interactive dashboard , it was hoped the new tool would catch projects that were not meeting its goals. According to Gover... More >
A study by the Government Accountability Office found that Grants.gov , the government’s central Web portal that people use to apply to more than 1,000 federal grant programs, has “ systemic weaknes... More >
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has announced that the General Services Administration has plans to launch an online storefront that will allow agencies to purchase computing services that are stored and ... More >
The State Department has yet to give an official nod to Mozilla's Firefox. A recent question-and-answer session that Secretary Hillary Clinton and Under Secretary Patrick Kennedy hosted last week, po... More >
After being attacked by the same DDoS attack that took aim at several federal government Web sites last week, the Department of Defense is looking to replace its five-year old commercial system , ... More >
According to InformationWeek , the General Services Administration and Smartronix are planning to release a version of the contract to design and operate Recovery.gov. The Recovery Accounta... More >
The IOUs the state of California is issuing to suppliers could cause cash-flow problems for many businesses, including tech vendors, reports Channel Web . Amid the economic downturn and wit... More >
The Senate Commerce Committee has approved a bill that directs the Federal Communications Commission and the U.S. Commerce Department to catalogue wireless spectrum use between 300 MHz and 3.5 GHz,... More >
The U.S. Postal Service has upgraded its 15-year-old, mainframe-based Product Tracking System to open source , reports Fierce Government IT . According to FederalComputerWeek , John Byrne, ... More >
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal signed an act that would distribute loans to health care facilities and physicians that use electronic health records. According to Government Technology , the " E... More >
Government work is keeping IT companies hiring , writes Kim Hart at The Washington Post , who reports that demand for IT services is keeping the Washington, D.C., economy healthier than other region... More >
A report from the Office of the Inspector General says that the Department of Homeland Security has made significant improvements to the cyber security of its top-secret intelligence computer syste... More >
According to DailyTech , the Obama administration's new Recovery.gov Web site is going to cost taxpayers a whopping $18 million over the next five years. A redesign of the site alone is going to c... More >
Analysis and consulting firm Input predicts that government IT spending will grow to $90 billion in 2014 , up from $76 billion in 2009, with high growth occurring in cloud computing and cyber securi... More >
The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board has announced that the public will have access to the same machine-readable data that updates Recovery.gov, according to Nextgov . Whatever data ... More >
According to Fierce Government IT , the Senate Appropriation Committee has approved a measure that would award the Department of Veterans Affairs more than $3.3 billion for information technology ... More >
Despite the controversy , the E-Verify program is set to begin on September 8 , according to Fierce Government IT . U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano made the announcement yesterda... More >
According to a press release , Technical Communities has formed a new government partnership agreement with ABP International. Under the agreement, Technical Communities is authorized to provide the... More >
The government's cyberspy defense system , known as Einstein, is being plagued by technical difficulties and privacy concerns, according to The Wall Street Journal . The latest complete vers... More >
According to an Associated Press article on Newsvine.com, Senator Tom Coburn has made a motion that Senate office expenses be posted online . The move follows a similar one by the House to post Ho... More >
The U.S. Federal Trade Commission's Web site was down on Monday between 10 a.m. Eastern and 4:30 p.m., according to Computerworld . Other government sites were affected as well, but there is no wo... More >
According to FederalComputerWeekly , health care providers and the industry are urging the Health and Human Services Department to extend the proposed deadlines for adopting health information tech... More >
In an effort to make state data easier to find, California has launched a new online data repository , according to Government Technology . The site contains information on population, education,... More >
The Department of Agriculture's Rural Utilities Service and the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration have released broadband stimulus grant requirement... More >
The U.S. government has released $4 billion in broadband stimulus funds to pay for the first round of broadband projects mandated by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, reports Net... More >
The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 stipulates that all the iron, steel and manufactured goods used in a public building or public works project needs to be made in the United States. ... More >
There is a danger is leaving sensitive but unclassified federal interviews and testimonies unprotected while being transcribed, warns LegaLock Secure Transcriptions. In response to federal man... More >
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