Of Google, gadgets and government CIOs
At the first-ever CES Government conference in Las Vegas, information sharing and electronic health records were top-of-mind.
FAA names Bowen as new CIO
The Federal Aviation Administration has tapped David Bowen as its new CIO and assistant administrator for information services.
Online Extra: Data cleaning 101
So your office has three databases, and each one has a different spelling of one individual's name. Here's how to clean that data up:
Marines' Shea: Demystify net-centric warfare, keep threats in mind
Meeting the military's network-centric challenges must not trump vigilance toward IT threats, according to the director of command, control, communications and computer systems for the Joint Chiefs of Staff.
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Online Extra: VA enhances patient identity matching
The Veterans Affairs Department has hired Initiate Systems Inc. of Chicago to eliminate duplicate records and improve the matching of all the right records with the right person in the Veterans Health Administration's Master Person Index system.
ITAA's Miller considers Senate run
Harris Miller, president of the Information Technology Association of America, will decide as early as this week whether to run as a Democrat against incumbent Sen. George Allen (R-Va.).
People on the move
Air Force Maj. Gen. Dale Meyerrose has been confirmed as the first CIO of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence.
Online Extra: Full-length interview with Alex Bennet
Alex Bennet, co-founder of the Mountain Quest Institute in Frost, W.Va., is a recognized expert in knowledge management. She has written extensively on KM and is co-author of <i>Organizational Survival in the New World: The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System</i>. An excerpt from this interview was published in <i>GCN</i>'s Jan. 9 print edition.
What's hot this year?
Federal technology managers are always facing new fires. GCN surveyed government officials, contractors and market observers to gauge what will be the hottest issues on this year's agenda.
Data-centric pilots in the works for DOD services
The Defense Department's CIO office plans to kick-start efforts to make data more universally accessible.
Net-centricity plan puts data up front
Information sharing is at the core of future systems.
The dirt on clean data
More than ever, an agency's ability to do its job depends on the quality of its data. With a little elbow grease, agencies can make their data presentable.
Turning data into knowledge is the challenge
Alex Bennet, co-founder of the Mountain Quest Institute in Frost, W.Va., is a recognized expert in knowledge management. She has written extensively on KM and is co-author of <i>Organizational Survival in the New World: The Intelligent Complex Adaptive System</i>.
Seize the data
The critical piece to making government work is no longer systems, but the ability to mine, analyze and use the information in systems.
OMB memo fuels debate over cataloging
The Bush administration argues that search technology is good enough to find most of what agencies put online.
Azmi defends plans for new system
FBI CIO Zalamai Azmi, in a letter to GCN, rebutted a Government Accountability Office critique of the Sentinel project, outlining a number of measures the FBI is taking to avoid mistakes in planning the project.
The FBI's Sentinel is under close watch
A Government Accountability Office report prompts calls for oversight of the bureau's case management project.
Feds to spend $1 billion on new airwaves
It will cost 12 federal agencies nearly $936 million to move their radio communications out of a range of the spectrum that the Federal Communications Commission plans to auction off for next-generation mobile broadband services, according to the Commerce Department.
Made in the shade: multifunction printers
These five, full-color multifunction printers can save you money, but they vary in speed, quality and price.
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