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• Open Government and an Appeal to Vendors

  

  The laws that govern Federal procurement are carefully designed to be equitable to vendors, transparent to taxpayers, and auditable for mistakes or malfeasance.

• Thinking about an Open Source Electronic Health Record

  

  Thirty years ago, when clinicians at VA first started building the software components for a “high tech” electronic health record, they stood at the vanguard of patient-centered care.

• Facing Our Cyber Insecurities – How To Really Make a Difference

  

  NASA CIO Linda Cureton shares her views on cybersecurity and the role everyone plays in staying protected.

• Farewell to Facebook? A Federal Executive’s Dilemma

  

  Gary R. Galloway Deputy Director, Office of Information Assurance, U.S. Department of State, discusses his reasons for joining FaceBook in its early days and why now he is saying goodbye.

• Cloud Computing Comes of Age

  

  The federal government spends more than $75 billion annually on information technology. Due to its size and critical mission requirements, feds have often lagged behind the commercial sector in embracing new technologies. With cloud computing, however, the federal government is [...]

• Cloud Computing: Bull, Silver Bullet, or Silver Lining?

  

  I suppose you can’t have a Shoot Out about Cloud Computing without talking about Silver Bullets. So, bang, bang, here goes! There is a lot of discussion about Cloud Computing and it has become a very popular term. Because of [...]

• True Transparency and Naked Leadership

  

  There is much discussion about transparency in government especially as it relates to Web 2.0 tools such as blogs, twitter, and various social networking applications. Transparency in a literal sense simply means to be able to see right through something. [...]

• Gov 2.0: Getting Serious About Transforming Government

  

  There are a lot of people around who are beginning to transform government into something new that realizes the vision of the Founders. I’m trying to focus on the gist of what’s happening, bearing witness to their efforts, on their [...]

• Cybersecurity in the Spotlight

  

  The Obama Administration is quite forward-thinking in its use of technology. From the creation of new positions within the Executive Branch (including the CIO, CTO, and cybersecurity czar) to the use of social media for public communication, IT security has [...]

• Technology Innovation Can Help Spur Economic Recovery

  

  On the world stage, the U.S. has always been a powerful engine of innovation. Defined broadly, innovation occurs when we generate new ideas that continue to challenge and push the current thinking forward to make a positive and lasting impact. [...]

• Innovative IT Security Tools and Techniques at the Department of State

  

  For those of you in the Federal IT community who are not engaged in the area of IT security as your primary pursuit, I thought you might be interested in hearing about some of the innovative tools and techniques that [...]

• The Relevant CIO

  

  Much will be said over the next few weeks about the role of the CIO in the Federal Government. Oh, many folks have already gotten together to discuss such things. Eventually, I think it boils down to one basic principle: [...]