The United Kingdom's Cabinet Office is developing a Web site in the style of the U.S. government's Data.gov that could advance the concept through use of Semantic Web technology.
The Federal Aviation Administration is racing to upgrade its computer systems while the demand on its existing capabilities continues to increase.
Harris Corp.'s FTI contract was relatively trouble-free until a router failure brought the nation's air traffic to a halt.
The Transportation Department is deploying Métier's WorkLenz project and portfolio management software to streamline management of its $3 billion IT portfolio, improve its mandated OMB reports and comply with IT Dashboard requirements.
The Army’s Maj. Keith Parker demos the Go Mobile kit to the GCN Lab.
The Irex program is a collaboration between NIST and industry to develop interoperability standards for iris recognition, which is emerging as a technology for strong authentication. The first step evaluated the effectiveness of recognition algorithms with image standards.
Over the years, the American public has been gifted with its share of computer-based turkeys -- information technology projects gone wrong, often at spectacular expense.
The update, the first since 2005, captures 29 different categories of data from the world’s oceans, including oxygen levels, temperatures, salinity and information on gases and isotopes.
Seven police departments within Bucks County, Pa. are using software that allow their police officers to share basic criminal information while on their beats.
Red Hat thinks it can apply NSA-level security to Windows from the outside.
With A-Space, a social-networking site for intelligence analysts, the Defense Intelligence Agency wants to extend electronic collaboration into the creation of intelligence.
Be kind to your fine feathered friends or else they might drop a piece of sandwich into your particle accelerator.
Web 2.0 is great technology that has a role in all public-facing government Web sites and in the next wave of application development, but don't confuse its use with the less glamorous side of transparency.
Most reported cases of identity theft come from old-fashioned theft of wallets, purses and PCs, one study shows. But the sheer bulk of data available on servers and company computers makes those types of risks frightening.
GSA's Bev Godwin, recently returned from a six-month detail to the White House, talks about the advantages of using social media to connect with the public and balancing the ease of using Web 2.0 tools with the challenges of meeting government regulations.