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Every agency is in search of good leaders and good managers. But it is important to recognize the distinction.
Reducing traffic at Fort Meade relies on telework.
DHSers who perform cybersecurity functions would not be furloughed during a government shutdown, including contractors.
The federal government\'s list of so called \'emergency\' or \'excepted\' IT personnel hasn\'t been updated in 15 years.
It’s the debate going on in many government offices and private companies. Should you go with a public or private cloud? Which is better for your organization? 76 percent of IT decision makers in a recent Info-Tech survey say they are looking initially at private cloud options for their first go in the new arena. [...]
IBM Center for the Business of Government has been looking at something called virtual agencies, a form of personalized government, centered around individual citizens or customers.
The federal government\'s list of emergency network security personnel has not been updated in 15 years.
The Pentagon moves to tighten cybersecurity for troops in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The Treasury Department named Robyn East to be their new chief information officer.
And out of the more than 450 teams that competed, Team Wilson out of Florida Cadet Squadron took home the Commander-in-Chief trophy.
Open government proponents are calling for more transparency, and they are taking that message to the streets.
The Federal Communications Commission is redoing its website for the first time in ten years.
The Justice Department is taking information about how agencies are responding to the Freedom of Information Act, and putting it all in one place. FOIA.gov is a new web portal that takes each federal agency\'s annual FOIA report, and puts it into an online, customizable, searchable database with colorful charts and graphs. Users can compare one agency\'s FOIA performance to another, see how much each agency spends to comply with the open records law, and how big the backlog of unanswered requests is. It also gives members of the public information help with filing a Freedom of Information Act request.
The Department of Veterans Affairs is relying on the promise of technology to meet its goal of eliminating its backlog of claims for disability benefits by 2015. VA Secretary Erik Shinseki says they are hiring more people to process claims, but those new workers don\'t always have the experience to process claims accurately. To bridge that gap, the department is building IT systems that use a rules based engine to automate the results they\'d get from a skilled, veteran claims processor. Their ultimate goal is to automate the claims process entirely, with a 98 percent accuracy rate.
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