Technology

  • Improving the military’s health IT program is a priority in the new White House budget proposal. The House Armed Services Subcommittees on Joint Military Personnel and Terrorism, Unconventional Threats and Capabilities called a panel of…

    March 25, 2009
  • President Obama has publicly stated that his administration will be known for openness and transparency. One of the cornerstones of that policy will be websites such as recovery.gov and USASpending.gov, which will use new technologies…

    March 24, 2009
  • Military officials say they have changed their cost and schedule estimates to implement an electronic health records system that is easier to use and better than the current one, called AHLTA. By the end of…

    March 24, 2009
  • BearingPoint, which had filed for bankruptcy protection just weeks ago, this morning announced that the company had been sold — to Deloitte, no less. At least the public sector portion of it. From the release…

    March 24, 2009
  • Cybersecurity is constantly evolving. Each year, Cisco taps into some 400 cybersecurity officials across the organization to assess the state of cybersecurity, and they have a new report out on the subject. And there is…

    March 23, 2009
  • Ed DeSeve, the former acting Office of Management and Budget deputy director of management during the Clinton administration and Chairman of Strategy and Solution Partners, is going to join the Obama administration, Federal News Radio’s…

    March 23, 2009
  • The U.S. Government Printing Office has laid out its goals for making government more open and transparent.

    March 23, 2009
  • President Obama announces more key administration posts

    March 23, 2009
  • White House officials say examples of open government will help alter perceptions

    March 23, 2009
  • Cloud computing is coming — and that it probably should — that’s the gist of a new report by Marketspace, Envisioning the Cloud: The next computing paradigm. Many agencies are looking at cloud computing, including…

    March 20, 2009
  • How will health IT benefit from the stimulus package? And, how will the economy benefit from health IT? IBM and the eHealth Initiative are holding an event on Capitol Hill tomorrow to discuss the impact…

    March 19, 2009
  • File sharing software. It’s great for trading music and pictures. That’s why millions of people use it. Trouble is, file sharing leaves your entire hard drive open for sharing if someone types in the right…

    March 19, 2009
  • I’ve received a number of calls and e-mails about yesterday’s post about GSA halting the use Facebook as a collaboration application. This is typical: I think the headline isn’t quite accurate and conveys the wrong…

    March 19, 2009
  • Collaboration is difficult because, in most cases, it involves changing the way we have done business. That is particularly true in government, which can often be stymied by the ‘that’s not the way we do…

    March 18, 2009

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