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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Few American cities are blanketed in smog any more. But just because New York isn't Beijing doesn't mean there's no room to improve air quality. That's why the EPA is launching a challenge to cities and towns across the country to develop plans for using air quality sensors in a big data sort of way. Robin Thottungal, the EPA's chief data scientist and director of analytics, joins the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
What really happens during presidential transitions? For a view of how to make transition more open and transparent, as part of our continuing series, Tracking the Transition. Federal Drive with Tom Temin turns to Alex Howard, senior analyst at the Sunlight Foundation.
The Department of Health and Human Services stood up its Idea Lab in 2013 to establish and build on a culture of innovation within the department.
Legislators came out strongly in favor of the Digital Accountability and Transparency Act (DATA Act) in the 2017 spending bills.
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