Open Data/Transparency
Anthony Calamito, the chief evangelist of Boundless, joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how his company helps federal IT professionals use open source geospatial information to solve complex problems. December 13, 2016
December 12, 2016-
There are still struggles with parts of the DATA Act implementation, but Treasury and Office of Management and Budget officials say they are working with large agencies and federal auditors to problem solve ahead of the May 2017 deadline.
December 08, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget Controller David Mader says the chief financial officers community will handle the presidential transition just fine, thanks in part to the community's work on budget, shared services, risk management and data transparency.
November 30, 2016 -
The Navy and Marine Corps are doing their part to build up a "hardened workforce," which is a key part of federal CISO Greg Touhill's strategic plan to strengthen cybersecurity.
November 16, 2016 -
Records management has rarely been a high priority for most agencies, and their practices have had difficulty keeping up with federal requirements.
November 15, 2016 -
When the Obama administration transfers 12 terabytes of data to the National Archives and Records Administration, it'll underscore the importance of federal records and records management. Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to Rob Efrus of Efrus Federal Advisors, for some insight.
November 14, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget published more guidance for agencies on what and how to report spending information to comply with the upcoming implementation of the DATA Act.
November 08, 2016 -
Classified documents usually get all the attention, but a new rule is addressing the way controlled information is marked and disseminated in non-classified documents.
November 08, 2016 -
The Agriculture Research Service is gathering information from food manufacturers and improving its database of nutritional information for food items that make it to grocery stores.
November 08, 2016 -
The Office of Management and Budget launched Code.gov, a repository of open source code that can pull from and use on their own. It's part of the administration's Federal Source Code Policy, which OMB released this summer. Yet some federal CIOs said the push for open source has the opportunity to go even one step further.
November 04, 2016 -
Accessibility for all promotes open government and transparency, but it can also be a burden on agencies' Freedom of Information offices. That's where the U.S. Access Board, and a pending final rule, can help.
October 25, 2016 -
The federal government’s cybersecurity policy has reached a crossroads, and the upcoming presidential transition is an opportunity to take a long, hard look in the mirror, and decide how to move forward.
October 21, 2016 -
The Commerce Department is opening an online library of economic data. Commerce is partnering with the European Commission to stand up the open source tool, which will use R programming language to make it easier for people to search and organize the data based on their search.
October 20, 2016 -
The National Technical Information Service is getting ready to announce the names of private sector organizations chosen to help agencies meet their mission using big data.
September 29, 2016 -
The Cancer Moonshot initiative is increasingly relying on open data to link patients with treatments, but with that data sharing come questions of how best to protect confidential and personal information.
September 29, 2016
