Digital Government

Issa says White House can too easily hide presidential records

The House oversight committee chairman wants assurance that staff are archiving work emails sent from personal accounts.

Digital Government

Sunshine advocates criticize government contractor database

New public website includes no pre-April info and is tough to navigate and full of unnecessary warnings, groups say.

Digital Government

GAO sustains protest of $25 million Booz Allen Hamilton networking contract

The company's bid understated costs by presuming it would get government workspace, watchdog says.

Ideas

Obama's iPad

Ideas

Feds to Close 137 Data Centers by 2012

Cybersecurity

Agencies to close 137 data centers and move 100 email systems to the cloud

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra downplayed security concerns about storing government data on privately owned servers.

Digital Government

Obama orders streamlining of federal websites

Managers of some 20,000 sites told to draw from private sector practices to improve customer service.

Digital Government

Coming IT program managers will be senior leaders

Commenters on OPM's draft job description want stronger distinction from existing federal IT project managers.

Modernization

Amazon cloud crash endangers federal websites

One energy site was shut down by the crash and recovery.gov jumped ship

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Terrorist Threat Alerts Go Social

Digital Government

New terror alert system aims for wide exposure via Web

Homeland Security replaces color-coded categories with simpler tiers that might include threat locations.

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Kundra Backs Up Obama on 'Broken' IT