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Despite the Obama administration's Digital Government Strategy, the use of digital platforms is "by no means standard across the government" with some federal employees still prohibited from accessing social media sites, according to a new report released Jan. 9 by the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton.While government adoption and use of digital technologies remains uneven with some "pockets of excellence and innovation," the compelling value of social media to agencies is clear, the report says. One of the biggest and most significant drivers for agencies to embrace social media, according to the report, is that an entire
The scares of Halloween 2012 are well past now, but there’s still time for agency IT teams to hear one more tale of technological terror. For government IT workers, there are few words more spine-tingling than an agency CIO demanding the implementation of a software-as-a-service (SaaS) solution. Agency IT professionals are hard to frighten, faced as they are with the looming “fiscal cliff” and years of budget cuts, but the dangers inherent in SaaS are enough to turn even the most hardened systems administrator’s hair white.What’s so scary about the big bad SaaS monster? And is it something that IT teams should bar the proverbial door against,
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A newly released White House strategy for federal information sharing lists among its top priorities adoption of metadata standards and the further extension of the Federal Identity Credential and Access Management framework.The strategy (.pdf) does not replace the 2007 National Strategy for Information Sharing, the new document says; the NSIS continues to provide the framework for information sharing and to direct its efforts in the areas of counterterrorism, homeland security and weapons of mass destruction.The new document does define policy objectives, however, including the promotion of finer-grained access controls through promotion of
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Several U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission staffers responsible for monitoring the markets and exchanges broadly misused computer equipment to download music and failed to properly safeguard sensitive information, a report has found. In a 43-page investigative report that probed the misuse of government resources, SEC Interim Inspector General Jon Rymer discovered that an office within the SEC's Trading and Markets division spent over $1 million on unnecessary technology. These policies call for exchanges to establish programs concerning computer audits, security and capacity. They are, in essence, a road map of the
Join FierceGovernmentIT for a webinar while we discuss the extent to which data security concerns act as a cloud computing adoption obstacle, the extent to which the can be mitigated and the resulting impacts those mitigations may have on use cases and deployment. Register Today.The Federal Bureau of Investigation announced on Dec. 11 the arrests of 10 individuals from Bosnia Herzegovina, Croatia, Macedonia, New Zealand, Peru, the United Kingdom, and the United States in connection with international cyber crime rings linked to the Butterfly Botnet, responsible for more than 11 million compromised computer systems and over $850 million in losses.
SCIENCE THURSDAY -- November 8, 2012 at 11:10 AM EDT Louis Uccellini, head of environmental prediction for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, explains the unique challenges of tracking Hurricane Sandy. Update: 6:15 p.m. ET | As Superstorm Sandy barreled its way west from the Caribbean to the Mid-Atlantic states and then swiveled north up to Canada, forecasters scrambled to understand it. The storm was unusual. It arrived late in the season and was fed by unseasonably warm waters. It was pushed inland by a high-pressure system and then merged with a cold front moving
After a $1 billion investment that produced “negligible” value, the Air Force is formally scrapping a next-generation logistics management system, officials announced Thursday.The Expeditionary Combat Support System (ECSS) program is “no longer a viable option” for meeting a fiscal 2017 deadline for having auditable books, Air Force spokesman Ed Gulick said in a statement. “Therefore, we are canceling the program and moving forward with other options.” The cancellation will cost up to 115 contract employees their jobs and require the “realignment” of 55 military personnel and government civilian employees, he said.The ECSS program, underway since
Mr Cameron is keen to show the software, known as the "Number 10 dashboard", which he is using on his iPad, to Barack Obama at the next G8 summit, according to a civil service recruitment website. A description of the app says that “with a few taps or swipes of his fingers, he can see very quickly what important new information has come to light, how certain government services are performing, and a selection of relevant and important news reports”. The development of the app was revealed earlier this year, but details have emerged for the first time. It is being created as a web app, meaning that it can be accessed
Over the past 12 years, the influence of the Internet has grown to the extent that Americans now “live in networks,” according to an expert on how digital trends are affecting American society -- and that development has serious implications for the way federal agencies interact with the citizens they serve. The growth of broadband networks and mobile devices since 2000 “has brought new actors into civic spaces,” said Lee Rainie, director of the Pew Research Center’s Internet and American Life Project. “These folks are sometimes on the warpath, and government agencies need to be responsive to that.” Rainie spoke Monday at Nextgov Prime,
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