mobility

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has just released the draft of recommendations for addressing mobile device security. Among other points, the draft document recommends implementing centralized management technologies for both organization-issued and personally-owned mobile devices.

The update is considered timely and important due to the dramatic increase in the last two years of smartphone and tablet penetration, the variety of mobile devices and the pressure from employees to use their own devices. Keep reading →


A new report provides government leaders with insights into IT business and outlines the top 10 technology trends that will impact federal organizations over the next 18 to 36 months.

The report, Technology Trends 2012: A Federal Perspective, was released by Deloitte this week. The trends are grouped into two categories as follows: Keep reading →

With federal agencies and departments developing a myriad of mobile applications for citizens, and agency employees, the government should be moving to develop application tools that are platform agnostic and have multiple uses, according to Dr. Rick Holgate, who played a leading role in developing the mobility recommendations in the government’s new digital strategy.

The new digital government strategy, released May 23 by the Office of Management and Budget, accompanied by a memorandum from the White House, is designed to give agencies a roadmap on how to embrace and optimize use of digital technology. It combines earlier efforts on the government’s original mobility strategy and a lesser-known web reform strategy, said Holgate, CIO of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Keep reading →

Perhaps it was inevitable. With all the computing power in the palms of a critical mass of end users, commercial off the shelf (COTS) mobile devices – smartphones, tablets and small factor computing devices of various hues and types – are now also getting into the hands of warfighters, first responders, federal law enforcement personnel, covert operators, command and control operation center staffs, and many other government workers.

And as a result, the age of tactical mobility may very well be upon us – finally. Keep reading →

The much-anticipated Digital Government Strategy was released as a presidential memo on May 23.

It was worth the wait and certainly didn’t disappoint, delivering strong ideas and including many self-imposed deadlines. Keep reading →

Federal agencies are working closely with private industry partners to embrace telework, cloud computing, smart devices, telecommunications and network technologies. But a new report suggests they fail to see eye to eye in key areas. Keep reading →

The new digital government strategy released Wednesday by the Office of Management and Budget covers a wide range of initiatives that go beyond what Federal CIO Steve VanRoekel initially proposed at the Consumer Electronics Show in January, during which he declared that 2012 would be the year of mobility in government.

In the flurry of releases that accompanied this morning’s announcement of the new digital strategy was VanRoekel’s own take on the importance and role of mobile technology in government. Keep reading →


Most federal agencies indicate having above-average IT programs for enabling telework and mobility and expect mobile device use to increase 20 percent by next year, according to a report released this week.

The report, released by the Telework Exchange, offers a snapshot of where federal agencies stand on enabling remote workers, and delivers a forecast for mobile IT investments. Keep reading →


FAA officials advised federal agencies Tuesday to balance creativity against security and give users wide latitude to experiment with innovative ways to get the most out of their mobile devices.

Managers for FAA, an agency in the forefront of piloting advanced mobility technology, spoke in a session at the annual FOSE conference in Washington, D.C., which covers range of federal IT topics from mobile government to defense innovations. Keep reading →

The federal government’s march to mobility will increasingly revolve around a new, broader digital strategy, expected to be released this spring, a White House Office of Management and Budget official said today.

Lisa Schlosser, deputy chief information officer at OMB, said the administration and Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel are continuing to embrace the mobility revolution. VanRoekel publically declared 2012 as the “year of mobile government” earlier this year in a speech at the Consumer Electronics Show and highlighted an initiative to develop a new Federal Mobility Strategy. Keep reading →

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