GAO: IRS halts development of Customer Account Data Engine
According to the Government Accountability Office, the IRS has suspended development of an automated account management program because of increasing complexity, despite an increase in the number of tax returns filed electronically.
White House preparing Data.gov 2.0
White House officials plan to release Version 2.0 of its new government data portal, Data.gov, with expanded tagging capabilities in the next two months.
Data location not the overriding factor in cloud security
Policy-makers should worry more about issues of access, rather than location, cloud guru argues.
Energy-efficient technology to be part and parcel of new SSA data center
SSA officials will work with industry experts in data center technology and energy efficiency during the project's development to identify designs and energy performance goals for the center's construction and operations.
Microsoft releases Office Open XML document-formatting tools
Microsoft has released new tools to further extend the compatibility and interoperability of Office Open XML document formats used in Microsoft Office 2007.
Microsoft offers free repository for agency data
Microsoft has set up a repository in which government agencies may upload and store their public-facing datasets so that they can be reused by other parties.
Kundra talks Data.gov
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra shares a data-formatting strategy for cross-agency Web sites
Chiarelli urges support for knowledge management tools
The Army's vice chief of staff said IT leaders need to keep pushing for systems that help users make better decisions.
Data reuse not possible without ontological work, group asserts
Data models are insufficient to enable widespread system interoperability, and organizations need to develop an ontology to explain how different data elements interact, according to the chairman of the Ontology Summit.
NIST releases suite of e-voting system tests for comment
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released a draft suite of tests to verify compliance with the Election Assistance Commission's new set of voluntary guidelines for voting systems.
NASA, Microsoft to co-manage data for WorldWide Telescope
NASA's Ames Research Center will process and host more than 100T of data that Microsoft will incorporate into the virtual WorldWide Telescope.
White House working group releases strategy for digital scientific data
The strategic vision from the National Science and Technology Council calls for a comprehensive framework for preserving and making scientific data accessible.
GAO: Better use of IT could help DHS reduce backlog of FOIA requests
GAO found that despite a 24 percent reduction in its backlog of freedom of information requests, DHS still leads the government in overdue requests.
OASIS ratifies open standard for accessing unstructured information
The Unstructured Information Management Architecture originally was developed by IBM, and became an open source project of the Apache Software Foundation as well as an OASIS standard.
In cybersecurity, there are no silver bullets
The rapidly changing nature of threats and systems means IT security will continue to be a journey with no clear destination for the foreseeable future, according to a panel of security experts.
Secret Service’s ink evidence library now electronically searchable
As a result of being digitized, ink sample matching takes minutes as opposed to hours or days, and inks remain safe from environmental degradation and accidental contamination.
Info-sharing between VA, DOD expands, but challenges remain
GAO assessment of medial information-sharing initiative between the nation’s largest health care providers identifies challenges to achieving full interoperability.
In Florida, RFID system keeps case files under control
A Florida state attorney's office uses an RFID-based tracking system to make sure case files have their day in court.
U.K. endorses OpenDocument Format
The United Kingdom is the latest government to express support of the OpenDocument Format standard, which competes with Microsoft's Extensible Markup Language-based format.
Guidelines released for secure use of digital signatures, hashing
Two new publications from NIST provide guidance for randomizing message input for digital signatures and for using hash algorithms
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