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Policy & Business

OPM losing ground with federal-worker retirement claims

The Washington Post: The Office of Personnel Management has lost momentum this year in processing federal-employee retirement claims after drastically reducing its inventory in 2013, according to a progress report from the agency.

OPM processed about 18,500 applications during the first two...

Special Report

Avoiding the Top Ten Mobility Risks

Mobility tops the list of ‘disruptive’ technologies that government organizations are grappling with on a daily basis. Allowing data to live in dangerous places or ignoring the BYOD influx simply aren’t workable strategies in 2014. Read i360’s latest TOP TEN special report to learn...

Live Webcast

Disaster Recovery and Continuity of Operations: The Latest Trends, Initiatives and Best Practice Advice

Wednesday, March 26, 2014 at 2:00pm

Attend this i360Gov webinar to gain insights into impending federal COOP guidance on backup and recovery compliance. Whether your agency is turning to cloud-based services, leveraging virtualized storage or utilizing other forms of standard backup and recovery to maintain continuity of operations, you will gain...

Information Technology

NASA struggles to manage mobile devices, audit finds

Federal Times: NASA is one of the few agencies that allows employees to access agency email and other systems from personal mobile devices.

Special Report

Leaning In: Government’s Push to Leverage Big Data

In 2014, government agencies are overcoming challenges inherent in managing high volume, high velocity data streams, to capture, store, manage and analyze big data as it flows through agencies every day. In this special report you will learn about what federal oversight organizations are doing...

State & Local Government

ID: Lawmakers alter Wi-Fi options for schools

News and Observer: BOISE, Idaho — Lawmakers on the Legislature's joint budget committee say Idaho school districts that chose not to join a statewide contract for high school Wi-Fi services should qualify for state funding for their own Wi-Fi networks.

Special Report

A Federal Open Data Status Report

By November, federal agencies must comply with a Presidential Executive Order mandating that more data be made open and machine readable. Most agencies today are only getting started. What they must understand is that every agency has an external mission. Whether they inform a specific...

Defense & Intelligence

Security plans for Boston Marathon to be detailed

San Francisco Chronicle: FRAMINGHAM, Mass. (AP) — Public safety officials are getting ready to release more details about enhanced security for this year's Boston Marathon.

Special Report

Disaster Recovery and COOP: The Latest Techniques and Tactics for Success

By now, government executives fully understand they must strive to maintain continuity of operations plans (COOP). In an era of greater scrutiny, oversight, transparency and calls for accountability, the vast majority of public sector institutions realize when it comes to COOP, this is no...

Healthcare Policy & IT

HHS Spells Out Obama Budget's Impact

Gov Info Security: The Obama administration's proposed fiscal 2015 budget calls for a 22 percent increase in funding for the office that oversees policies and standards for the HITECH Act's electronic health record incentive program and a 5 percent increase for the agency responsible for enforcing HIPAA compliance.

Energy Policy & Technology

Regulators to Impose New Security Rules on Electric Utilities

The Wall Street Journal (online registration required): Federal energy regulators plan to impose new security rules on electric utilities to make sure they protect major substations and other facilities critical to the operation of the electric grid.

Education Policy & Technology

New SAT part of a changing admissions process

USA Today: AUSTIN — Everybody loves to hate the SAT, but the breathtaking changes to the 88-year-old college entrance exam unveiled here last week caught just about everybody by surprise.