Technology

  • For cybersecurity, your biggest vulnerability just might be right there in your hand - your mobile devices.

    March 11, 2011
  • US-CERT is warning of potential emails scams requesting donations for the Japan earthquake and tsunami.

    March 11, 2011
  • GSA\'s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies provides information to the public through a variety of ways. GSA\'s Gwynne Kostin tells us about how the agency is sharing lessons learned governmentwide.

    March 11, 2011
  • The Department of Homeland Security is offering a new program that invites top executive-level talent from the private sector to share their expertise with the Department to fill some exciting and important roles here at DHS.

    March 11, 2011
  • Beginning today, consumers are encouraged to visit www.SaferProducts.gov to submit Reports of harm or risks of harm, and to search for safety information on products they own or may be considering buying. Inez Tenenbaum, CPSC chair, explains.

    March 11, 2011
  • Fears that the leak of thousands of State Department memos to the website WikiLeaks would reverse progress on interagency sharing of national security information have not materialized, officials testified Thursday. Agencies have responded by recognizing the need to protect data rather than by hoarding it, they said.

    March 11, 2011
  • The General Services Administration’s annual IRMCO conference is just around the corner and two of its key panel discussions will focus on cloud computing. IRMCO will be held March 15-16 at the Kellogg Conference Center and Hotel in Washington, D.C. Day two will open with a CIO roundtable on implementing the 25-Point IT Plan laid [...]

    March 10, 2011
  • The General Services Administration offered advice to vendors trying to sell cloud services to the government. Dave McClure, GSA’s Associate Administrator in the Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies, told Federal News Radio vendors are definitely the innovators in the cloud space. But, he warns, vendors need to do more than repackage “their old [...]

    March 10, 2011
  • New vice chairman of the CIO Council Richard Spires said he wants small and large agencies to learn from each other when it comes to implementing IT reforms. Small agencies have a different type of challenge than larger ones in implementing OMB\'s 25-point plan.

    March 10, 2011
  • The Office of the Inspector General at the State Department examined social media use in 22 foreign embassies.

    March 10, 2011
  • Ben Marglin, principal at Booz Allen Hamilton, explains changes coming to the way agencies make business cases for IT projects.

    March 10, 2011
  • March 15th, 2011 at 12:30 PM This century\'s \"Work\" models are based on Collaboration; but how do you define, manage, and more importantly, increase collaboration? When you think about increasing collaboration, leveraging the power of your connected teams, utilizing the collective brains of your trusted communities, and raising the quality of your collaborative decisions, you need the constant social networking with your trusted communities.

    March 10, 2011
  • A report by TechAmerica shows that with the interconnected nature of the Internet and the ever evolving sophisticated threats, a public-private partnership is not just a good idea but a necessity.

    March 10, 2011
  • The contract is a blanket purchase agreement worth a maximum $49 billion.

    March 10, 2011

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