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GSA’s Green Proving Ground Finds New Ways To Cut Energy Costs

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With the cost of lighting accounting for more than a third of the energy bills at most federal facilities, officials at the General Services Administration know that it will take more than upgrading to newer florescent and LED lighting to make government buildings more energy efficient. It also means finding ways to efficiently install an array of new and smarter technologies.

The stakes, however, are significant. GSA boasts a portfolio of federal buildings that amounts to nearly 10,000 assets. The upshot, though, is that those buildings offer a rich laboratory to evaluate green technologies. Keep reading →

 /  Published January 9, 2013 at 3:30 PM

Early Healthcare IT Adopters See Simplified Service, Reduced Costs

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Healthcare is experiencing an unprecedented transformation.

Motivated by the need to meet new regulatory requirements in the U.S., including the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), and to receive incentives from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act’s (ARRA’s) Health Information Technology for Economic and Clinical Health (HITECH) provision, many healthcare providers are investing to modernize their legacy IT infrastructure and clinical applications. In addition to meeting compliance issues, these early adopters are discovering numerous advantages from their investment in IT – not only in cost savings, but also in improved patient care, tightened information security, advanced collaboration, increased transparency and trackability, and ‘connected care.’ Keep reading →

 /  Published December 5, 2012 at 8:00 AM

Online Tool Aids Governments In Disaster Recovery

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After two 20-something sisters lived through a tornado and its aftermath in their Massachusetts hometown last year, they vowed to transform a well-intentioned but unorganized disaster-recovery process.

The resulting online tool, recovers.org, is now helping local governments and nonprofits coordinate Hurricane Sandy relief efforts through a concept known as “community-powered” recovery. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 20, 2012 at 7:00 AM

Social Media Shows Strong Growth In Contracting

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State and local governments are using social media solutions for IT in virtually every area of government, according to a new report from Deltek.

The new report, Social Media in State & Local Government, a New Paradigm for Engagement and Innovation 2012, also suggests state and local governments will likely need help from contractors to do more, particularly in a handful of functions. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 12, 2012 at 7:00 AM

Emerging Innovation And Social Media Trends: Always-On Connected Devices

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How will the wide-scale adoption of always-on connected devices change the environment for federal leaders?

Of the five trends I outlined in my last post, the first, always-on connected devices, is so fundamental, so important, so paradigm-shifting, that it is quickly becoming invisible. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 9, 2012 at 11:00 AM

Air Force Information Assurance Team Recognized For Fast-Track Efforts

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This is the last in a series of profiles featuring 2012 U.S. Government Information Security Leadership Award (GISLA) winners. The winners received the awards in October from (ISC)2 a nonprofit serving certified information security professionals and administrators.

As the systems that support space missions continue to grow in scale and complexity, so does the need to keep improving the processes used to assess system vulnerabilities. At the same time, those processes have to remain flexible, reliable and still meet a host of complex continuous monitoring guidelines. Keep reading →

 /  Published November 8, 2012 at 7:00 AM

Opportunity In Open Source Data

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Richard Haycock, Director of Government for BAE Systems Detica, talks about the explosion in system, third party and open source data available to government .


He also describes how it provides an opportunity to offer better services to citizens, at lower cost and with a reduced risk of fraud and error. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 26, 2012 at 2:00 PM

State CIOs Face High Stakes Balancing Act

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For state chief information officers, life at the office has become delicate high-wire act. While under pressure to continue delivering legacy information technology services that are critical to day-to-day operations, CIOs still have to keep up with the surging demand for new IT services, such as mobile- and cloud-based computing.

That’s a central theme from the results of a just-released survey of state CIOs by the National Association of State Chief Information Officers (NASCIO), TechAmerica, and consulting firm Grant Thornton LLP, said Doug Robinson, NASCIO’s executive director. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 25, 2012 at 8:01 AM

Verizon Data Breach Report Highlights Insider Vulnerabilities

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A new report on data breaches and cyber crimes highlights a disturbing rate of intellectual property theft, much of which happens from within organizations, making it increasingly difficult to protect against across a range of industries.

The “Verizon 2012 Data Breach Investigations Report,” due to be released by Verizon on Wednesday, pulls together analysis from the U.S. Secret Service, the Dutch National High Tech Crime Unit, the Australian Federal Police, the Irish Reporting & Information Security Service and the Police Central e-Crime Unit of the London Metropolitan Police. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 23, 2012 at 10:00 PM

Cybersecurity Threats Haunting Federal Government

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Forget haunted houses, tacky Halloween costumes, and increasingly vitriolic campaign rhetoric. What’s scaring us the most this October? Cybersecurity threats – particularly those against the federal government.

Nearly every aspect of our modern lives is increasingly dependent on information technology systems and networks. Evolving cyber threats to our federal information systems have the potential to cause widespread power blackouts, put high-speed trains on collision courses, and compromise U.S. military intelligence, to name just a few frightening scenarios. Keep reading →

 /  Published October 22, 2012 at 3:00 PM
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