Mobility

  • The National Institute of Standards and Technology produces prodigious amounts of data. Now it wants your help to make that data more accessible. NIST has launched a contest to create and design an app using some of its data sets. Heather Evans is a challenge manager at NIST. She joined the Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more on the contest.

    July 31, 2015
  • People use mobile devices for almost everything nowadays — sometimes even for viewing sensitive information. It's not just the intelligence community that needs to keep its devices protected. Medical providers need a middle ground between security and convenience as well. To that end, the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has released a new set of rules to help health care providers keep their mobile devices as secure as possible. Gavin O'Brien is a project manager at NCCoE. He joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive to review the new guidelines.

    July 29, 2015
  • Barton Phillips, vice president of DocuSign joins host John Gilroy to discuss how digital signatures will save your agency time and money. July 28, 2015

    July 28, 2015
  • Evan Lesser, founder and director of ClearanceJobs.com, joins host Derrick Dortch to discuss how federal workers with security clearances have been impacted by the OPM cyber breach. He will also talk about the state of the clearance job market. July 24, 2015

    July 23, 2015
  • In the future, federal offices could be more like patios - where furniture is adjustable and moveable for whatever task or project is at hand, say experts at the General Services Administration. In our special report, The Federal Office of the Future, we examine the research behind the decision to make office spaces more flexible.

    July 16, 2015
  • Dave Wennergren, senior vice president, Technology Policy, at the Professional Services Council  and Dave Chesebrough, president of the Association for Enterprise Information, join host John Gilroy to talk about the Federal Information Technology Acquisition Reform Act. July 14, 2015

    July 13, 2015
  • Veterans Affairs wants to make its MyHealtheVet web portal easier to use. Appointment scheduling is a key priority as the design improves vets' ability to schedule appointments on their desktop, mobile device or at in-facility kiosks. Kim Nazi is a senior program and management analyst in the Veterans and Consumer Health Informatics Office of the Veterans Health Administration. She joined Emily Kopp on the Federal Drive with more of the MyHealtheVet redesign specifics.

    July 10, 2015
  • The Drug Enforcement Administration's Western Laboratory won the Federal Green Challenge award from the Environmental Protection Agency after the lab increased its electronics recycling more than any other federal agency in 2014. It recycled tons of electronics and nearly 10% more than its 2013 level. Zoe Heller manages the Zero Waste Section in EPA's Pacific Southwest Region. She joined Tom Temin on the Federal Drive with more on the challenge, and some lessons everyone can learn from the DEA lab.

    July 06, 2015
  • Inside the Reporter’s Notebook is a bi-weekly dispatch of news and information you may have missed or that slipped through the cracks at conferences, hearings and other events. This is not a column or commentary…

    June 30, 2015
  • The Defense Department and the National Institute of Standards and Technology provided a lift to the future of mobile computing in the government. DoD announced it moved its classified mobile capability from a pilot stage…

    June 30, 2015
  • Today’s interview is with Glenn Cobb, Regional Vice President Americas, Solution Engineering for CipherCloud. Many federal information professionals want to move to the cloud but have serious questions about security.  During the interview,  Cobb talks…

    June 29, 2015
  • Aaron Cornfeld, group vice president, Pre-sales Engineering, Public Sector, Healthcare and Higher Education at Oracle, joins host John Gilroy to discuss products the company is developing that could be of interest to IT professionals in the federal government. June 23, 2015

    June 23, 2015
  • Randy Miskanic, the Postal Service\'s acting chief information officer, said over the next six months 225,000 letter carriers and other employees will be using hand-held devices to collect and review data in real-time to help them make better decisions.

    June 03, 2015
  • After having served as the staple for mobile communications within the Navy for a dozen years, the venerable BlackBerry is finally on its way out.

    June 01, 2015