Technology

• Health care reform rises to top of priority list

  The reformation of the country\'s health care system is one of the next priorities for President Barack Obama and Congress, and the Department of Health and Human Services and the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services will be at the center of this effort.

  Technology

  February 17, 2009
• Child Protection Charity in UK Using UC

  A charity organization in the United Kingdom has deployed a unified communications solution to improve services it provides. The National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC) will implement the technology to make…

  Technology

  February 17, 2009
• DoD, students provide a glimpse of the future

  One approach DoD and many other agencies are using to address the impending retirement wave is by attracting high school students through the Chief Information Officer Council\'s Information Technology Job Shadow Day.

  Budget

  February 16, 2009
• A Different Government Shadow

  The Defense Department gave about 100 Washington, D.C. area high school students a behind the scenes look at the work done at the Pentagon. The goal is to excite these students to want to work…

  Defense

  February 16, 2009
• The road ahead for contracting

  Steve Charles EVP & co-founder Immix Group January 26th, 2009 (Rebroadcast February 16th, 2009)

  Amtower Off-Center

  February 16, 2009
• NIST offers help to secure wireless networks

  From cell phones to Blackberrys to wireless cards in laptops, nearly every federal worker and contractor connects to the Internet wirelessly these days. But there is no federal standard for securing these connections.

  Technology

  February 13, 2009
• Wireless Security Guidance

  While many agencies have addressed wireless security in one way or another, the approach has not been standard across the government. That’s why the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is giving agencies guidance…

  Technology

  February 13, 2009
• Spreading the Word

  How do federal agencies work together to keep you safe when there’s a public health scare … like the recent peanut butter salmonella outbreak? Doctor Ali S. Kahn works for the Centers for Disease Control…

  Federal Drive

  February 13, 2009
• Obama amends order to include CTO

  In a notice published in Wednesday\'s Federal Register, the President amended Executive Order 12859 from August 1993 by removing the AIDS Policy Coordinator and replaces it with an Assistant to the President and Chief Technology Officer

  Budget

  February 11, 2009
• What the stimulus package means for tech vendors

  The Senate passed its version of the economic stimulus bill, including billions of dollars in technology spending from broadband incentives to agency specific systems to health IT.

  Technology

  February 10, 2009
• GSA, ReadtheStimulus.org, Treasury Dept.

  CHEERS To Bob Martinez, Patrick Jones, Paul Davis, and Tim Cashman, GSA Pacific Rim, Public Building Service employees, who increased the use of renewable energy at the California Land Port of Entry in Otay Mesa,…

  Acquisition

  February 10, 2009
• No Cyber Czar?

  Experts are expressing disappointment at the Obama administration’s impending decision to review federal cybersecurity efforts instead of establishing a cyber czar. One prominent expert called it “kicking the can” down the road. The overall feeling…

  Technology

  February 09, 2009
• Where the Money Will Go

  Kevin Plexico VP Input February 9th, 2009

  Amtower Off-Center

  February 09, 2009
• Kundra Could be E-Gov Administrator 2

  FederalNewsRadio has learned that Vivek Kundra – the chief technology officer for the Washington, DC government — will be the OMB administrator for e-government and information technology. What challenges does he face… and who is…

  Technology

  February 05, 2009