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IBM is offering a new software framework designed for government citizen agencies. According to The Register , IBM Government Industry Framework is geared toward five domains IBM sees as in need o... More >
The Obama Administration is predicting that the stimulus program helped create or save about 650,000 jobs , reports The Wall Street Journal . The reports are expected this afternoon on Recovery.go... More >
The Department of Defense has gone further than just encouraging the use of open source applications by open sourcing an enterprise human resources application that has over a million lines of code... More >
According to InformationWeek , New York Attorney General Andrew Cuomo is using a $100 million settlement from health insurance companies to build a database and Web site that will provide consumer... More >
With the pros and cons being hotly debated, it's official: Los Angeles has chosen to go with Google Apps as the replacement for the city government's e-mail and Internet services, reports seattl... More >
FederalComputerWeek reports that President Barack Obama has announced that electric utilities will receive $3.4 billion in economic stimulus grants for smart grid projects. Such projects would inc... More >
According to InformationWeek , the federal Department of Health and Human Services has awarded Lockheed Martin $170 million in contracts to help improve efficiency in government health information ... More >
State public health officials in Rhode Island are electronically tracking likely H1N1 outbreaks using electronic prescription information from pharmacies that prescribe antiviral flu drugs, says I... More >
The National Security Agency is planning a $1.5 billion cyber security data cente r at the Utah National Guard's Camp Williams near Salt Lake City. The facility will serve as the hub of the highly-... More >
According to The Los Angeles Times , the Los Angeles City Council is expected to decide today whether to hand over control of its massive e-mail system to Google . The $7.25 million contract... More >
FederalComputerWeek reports that federal health IT spending is estimated to rise from $4.5 billion this year to $5.6 billion in 2014. Federal, state and local governments are expected to spend $15... More >
The Muncie Star Press reports that employees in Delaware County (Ind.) government are spending quite a bit of time on Facebook. A records request by the newspaper shows that during just one week in... More >
According to the government analyst firm Input , U.S. government cyber security spending will increase at a compound rate of 8.1 percent a year between 2009 and 2014. With cyber attacks on the gov... More >
The Obama administration has chosen to replace its old content management system with open source Drupal , says TG Daily . The previous system was a proprietary CMS and was getting to be ou... More >
With the announcement earlier this month that the federal stimulus package created or saved 30,000 jobs , there is still no word on how many of those jobs were IT and engineering jobs. A Recovery Ac... More >
The Education Department's Inspector General says the department falls short on securing computer systems that handle millions of students’ personal and financial information in the Federal Student... More >
With the push to have every American's health records stored electronically by 2014, hospitals and physicians are being required to put digitized records to meaningful use. But first, David Blumentha... More >
The U.S. Department of Energy will spend $32 million from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act on testing the viability of cloud computing as an efficient method for scientific computing, say... More >
According to a new report by TechAmerica, civilian agency IT budgets will grow 3.4 percent over the next five years, a significant drop from the 8.3 percent rate from 2005 to 2010, reports Informa... More >
Following the release of its white paper "Public Sector Sustainability: Recent Progress, Tomorrow's Challenges," SAP says it plans to launch a sustainability suite to assist government and business... More >
Following the successful lead of the Center for Rural Affairs, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has created its own Facebook group , says FireceGovernmentIT . The USDA hopes to open the co... More >
The Secret Service has put out a Request for Information as it plans to overhaul its information technology infrastructure, according to FederalComputerWeek . The RFI says the service's exis... More >
This week, President Obama issued a brief video explaining that he had declared October to be Cyber Security Awareness month, and addressing the importance of increasing awareness and practicing re... More >
As expected , National Security Agency director Lt. Gen. Keith Alexander has been promoted to the rank of general and tapped as commander of the new U.S. Cyber Command , reports InformationWeek . &... More >
The CIA's investment group, In-Q-Tel, is buying a stake in Visible Technologies , a software company that monitors social media, says Wired . In-Q-Tel expects Visible to track foreign social... More >
After New York City Mayor Bloomberg announced his push toward city government transparency, City CIO Paul Cosgrave announced that New York will add mobile phone and social-media applications to its ... More >
Indiana Governor Mitch Daniels announced that the state is ending its contract with IBM to update and privatize its welfare system , says GovTech . The outsourcing deal was worth $1.6 billion. &nbs... More >
Lockheed Martin has secured a $31 million contract from the U.S. military to develop new cyber security systems, reports V3.co.uk . The military supplier will work with Microsoft, Juniper Networks... More >
According to a report by the Government Accountability Office (GAO), NASA was affected by more malware from 2007 until 2008 than any federal agency, says InformationWeek . The GAO is urging the ag... More >
A government oversight board has released the first hard data on effects of the $787 billion stimulus program. FederalNewsRadio reports that of the 30,000 job that were created by the $787 bi... More >
MPC Products Corp. has agreed to pay fines of $25 million to settle allegations that it overcharged the government for more than a decade, reports FederalNewsRadio . MPC is a manufacturer and suppl... More >
Courts are notorious consumers of paper and printing sources. So it made sense for the HIllsborough County 13th Judicial Circuit Court in Florida to switch to an electronic document-management syste... More >
Following privacy concerns raised by the Center for Democracy and Technology, a Homeland Security official says the so-called Einstein 3 intrusion-detection system will not be able to read e-mails.... More >
Although a recent update to the 1980s standards for federal records management has been released, critics believe it may not be enough to ensure that current electronic data is managed efficiently ... More >
According to Government Technology , Microsoft is partnering with the National White Collar Crime Center to offer the nonprofit organization the opportunity to be the nation's first distributor of a... More >
A legislative audit has revealed some very disturbing news about Virginia's outsourcing of a massive $2 billion computer upgrade. According to The Washington Post , the report shows that the ... More >
A push to bring robust fiber-optic technology to the 16,500 U.S. libraries is seeking stimulus funds to pay for the upgrade, says InformationWeek . A drive supported by U.S. Rep. Rick Bouch... More >
Landline 911 calls receive faster response than those placed by a cell phone, even though cell phone calls make up one-third of all 911 calls placed. So updating the 911 call centers to better handle... More >
According to InformationWeek , this year's defense spending authorization bill requires the Department of Defense to make significant changes in the way it procures IT products and services . The b... More >
According to FederalComputerWeek , the Homeland Security Department’s Inspector General has found that the agency's Web sites are vulnerable to hackers . The audit examined nine of the DHS's... More >
In an effort to increase citizen engagement and civic participation, the State Department is launching a pilot program that will award up to $5 million in grants to increase the use of social-networ... More >
According to Yahoo News , the government has received $28 billion in requests from communities in need of expanding broadband access , but it only has $4 billion to give out. The Commerce an... More >
Geographic information systems used here in the United States have become a mess due to a lack of standards and policies to organize and compile all the data into a system that can be used universal... More >
New York City's Department of Homeless Services (DHS) has teamed with Global Bay Technologies and IBM to equip its field inspectors with mobile devices that have eliminated paperwork and streamline... More >
Cyber security is near the top of the U.S. Navy's IT project to-do list for the new fiscal year, reports InformationWeek . Navy CIO Robert Carey says: We must find ways to enable the innovative use... More >
Federal intelligence officials have decided to scrap a Web-based, unclassified e-mail system , citing unspecified security concerns, according to InformationWeek . The uGov, a Zimbra-based e-mail s... More >
The Department of Veterans Affairs has decided to restart 45 IT projects that were temporarily paused this year after falling far behind schedule or over budget, reports InformationWeek . The fail... More >
The General Accountability Office found that federal agencies have been dragging their feet on writing guidelines for managers on how to end outsourcing and bring jobs back in-house, says FierceGo... More >
Due to a possible $2 million cut in the county's IT budget, Milwaukee County is looking at replacing some 4,500 desktops with thin clients beginning next year, according to Computerworld . ... More >
According to estimates from research firm INPUT, the 20 biggest government contracts that will be awarded in 2010 will tip the scales at more than $180 billion, reports InformationWeek . That is 5... More >
A report from the General Accountability Office has revealed that three government agencies -- the Defense Department, the State Department and the Agency for International Development -- have not b... More >
California, North Carolina, Indiana, and Vermont will all receive stimulus grants from the Department of Commerce's National Telecommunications and Information Administration's State Broadband and ... More >
The Central Intelligence Agency is a big proponent of cloud computing , seeing it as an approach that makes IT environments more flexible and secure, reports Computerworld . Jill Tummler Sin... More >
According to Government Technology , Utah has developed set of rules for appropriate social media use by public employees and state officials. The guidelines offer advice on participating in socia... More >
President Obama has issued an executive order requiring all federal agencies to purchase environmentally friendly, energy-efficient IT products , says InformationWeek . The order aims to set... More >
Following a recent data breach where personal data for tens of thousands of soldiers was accidentally released by peer-to-peer file-sharing software , the U.S. House of Representatives is now consid... More >
FreeBalance, a company that provides global financial-management software, has released Version 7 of its Accountability Platform , which is used in developing Web-based solutions for Government Reso... More >
An audit by the Commerce Department's inspector general found that the department has not taken the basic steps to develop its work force that oversees the security of the department’s IT systems, ... More >
According to nextgov , the White House will issue a directive stating that each government agency must detail its own process for measuring the results of its transparency efforts. The dire... More >
The Federal Register, the daily publication that covers White House news, federal regulation changes and government agencies' activities, is now available in XML format, says FederalComputerWeek . &... More >
Come this November, federal agencies will receive new cyber security performance metrics , according to FederalNewsRadio . A Security Metrics Taskforce will be charged with creating "new metrics fo... More >
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is using $27.8 in recovery funds to implement electronic health records and other health information technology initiatives in rural networks and la... More >
A recently released InformationWeek Analytics report based on government IT showed that cost-cutting and increasing transparency were on the bottom of the list of important management issues, says I... More >
According to FierceGovernmentIT , the cyber security firm Tiversa identified several data breaches where personal data from tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers is being downloaded via peer-to-peer ... More >
The Associated Press reports that, over the next three years, the Department of Homeland Security will hire up to 1,000 cyber security experts . The positions will include include cyber analysts, d... More >
The City Council in Portland, Ore., unanimously OK'd a resolution to open municipal data to outside developers and encourages purchases of open source software, reports ReadWriteWeb . Accor... More >
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