Wednesday, April 23, 2014
Policy & Business
The Washington Post: The General Services Administration this week identified 19 federal buildings across the nation that will absorb outside offices as part of a nearly $70 million plan to consolidate agency work sites.
The project will cost about $67 million up front for...
Special Report
No matter whether public sector organizations turn to cloud
services, leverage virtualized storage or utilize other
forms of backup and recovery to help maintain continuity of
operations (COOP), they can expect to learn more about what
it takes to be ‘resilient’ the coming months.
Meanwhile,...
Information Technology
Gov Info Security: A draft of revised guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology drops a cryptographic algorithm the National Security Agency is believed to have used to circumvent encryption that shields much of global commerce, banking systems, medical records and Internet communications.
Special Report
Allowing data to live in dangerous places, ignoring the BYOD
influx, falling short on user training – these are just a
few of the top ten risks to enterprise-wide mobility that
government agencies can ill afford. Learn about the risks,
and what you can...
State & Local Government
Governing: The battle between local governments and telecommunications providers over the right to establish community broadband networks heated up over the last several months, as a number of bills were introduced that could have significant impact on municipalities in five states.
Special Report
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...
Defense & Intelligence
Time: The White House has warned Russian President Vladmir Putin that he has days, not weeks, to reign in pro-Kremlin insurgents occupying government buildings in at least 10 cities in eastern Ukraine, in accordance with an agreement hammered out in Geneva last week, or face harsher sanctions.
Special 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...
Healthcare Policy & IT
Gov Info Security: Privacy and security are vital components of all major projects that the Office of the National Coordinator for Health IT has under way, says Karen DeSalvo, M.D., the new head of the office.
Energy Policy & Technology
Phoenix Business Journal: The U.S. Department of Defense announced Monday that Fort Huachuca in Southeast Arizona will break ground Friday on a solar array with panels that collectively will provide one quarter of the base’s electricity needs.
Education Policy & Technology
THE Journal: A new survey of K-12 teachers found that 88 percent of respondents said they and their students use technology in class but only 24 percent said they believe it has a strong positive effect on student achievement and a mere 13 percent said it has a strong positive effect on standardized test scores.
