People
Justice Department plans to expand cops' access to data
The Justice Department plans a nationwide federated identity management program for law enforcement data systems.
Digital Government
Many agencies earn failing grade for e-recordkeeping
Seventy-nine percent of more than 200 departments, agencies, and sub-agencies that responded to a recent survey from the National Archives and Records Administration were found to have a high or moderate risk of improperly destroying records.
Digital Government
NIST to map road to digital record preservation
NIST is hosting the first of an important series of meetings next week as a first step toward developing a national road map to digital record preservation.
Modernization
Information handcuffs: Counterterrorism IT needs support from the top, Congress told
Intelligence agencies face policy and privacy questions as they look to harness IT to fix problems identified after the failed Christmas Day bombing attempt.
Digital Government
Getting out in front of the burgeoning data deluge
We are now well into the exabyte-per-year era of data (1 billion gigabytes), with predictions that the size of the digital universe will double every 18 months. How do you store all of that data, let alone find ways to manage it so you can retrieve it and make use of it?
Modernization
Extreme makeover: Cutting data centers down to size
Under new pressure to curb data center spending, agencies must decide whether it's better to remodel old or build new data centers to keep up with growing IT demands.
Modernization
How to decide whether to retrofit or replace your data center
Answering these questions can help you decide if it's better to remodel your old data center or build a new one.
Modernization
Will data center history repeat itself?
Obama administration officials who are dead set on consolidating data centers across government might profit from talking with former Clinton administration officials, who undertook a similar task nearly 15 years ago—with depressing results.
Modernization
Preservation Road: Visual and audio records say more than text ever could
NARA works to ensure that future generations can continue to learn from the past, and that increasingly requires the agency to digitize audiovisual records.
Digital Government
Agencies try to exploit 'free' data model
Blogger Brian Robinson was wondering how the business models would emerge to justify Data.gov and similar government Web sites. Here's one out of Massachusetts: Get the free market to do government's job for it.
Digital Government
'The Guardian' of government data
On the heels of the United Kingdom's launch of its own version of Data.gov comes a new site developed by The Guardian newspaper that provides access to online government data sites from around the world.
People
Transportation Department attempts to fix suspension delays
The department has struggled to make decisions on whether to exclude companies from federal work and then notify its various offices about the decisions.
People
Need to Know: A new mission for CIOs?
The glut of labels for sensitive but unclassified data hampers efforts to share vital information, such as anti-terrorism intelligence.
Modernization
With lawsuit settled, timetable for release of Bush e-mails is tricky
E-mails that are presidential records from the administration George W. Bush discovered during ongoing litigation could be publicly available in five years under the Presidential Records Act.
People
Highway officials gave contractor too much, IG says
An IG found that officials focused first on congressional interests and minimized the contractor's financial problems to avoid disrupting the program.
People
White House settles Bush-era suit over millions of e-mail messages
The Obama administration and two private groups that sued the Bush administration have reached an agreement to settle the ongoing litigation.
Cybersecurity
House passes bill to require data breach notifications
The House has passed a bill that would standardize how businesses must notify people put at risk after they improperly discloses personal data electronically.
Digital Government
In wake of TSA breach, a refresher on redacting PDFs
The exposure of the Transportation Security Administration's operations manual will likely prompt agnecies to review the National Security Agency's guidance on how to safely redact information from documents posted to the Web.
Cybersecurity
NARA weighs standardizing access rules for foreign vendors seeking secret data
A NARA office wants to establish a standardized process through which some highly sensitive data could be released under special agreement to foreign-owned or controlled contractors.
Modernization
NARA admits violating internal policy on personal info
NARA's policy required it to destroy hard drives, but in some cases agency personnel returned them to vendors instead, official says.
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