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Justice Department Websites May Go Open Source

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | September 10, 2013

The Justice Department could be the next federal agency to switch a large share of its websites over to the open source Drupal content management system, contracting documents show. Read More »

Lessons From The ACA Health Insurance Marketplace Failure

Rob Atkinson | The Innovation Files | November 13, 2013

One can’t pass a single day it seems without seeing in the news coverage of the problems with the Affordable Care Act’s Health Insurance Marketplace (HIM). But what is perhaps most surprising is not that the web site had problems, but that people are surprised that it had problems. [...] Read More »

Memo To President Obama: HealthCare.gov Is More Than Just A Website

Katherine McIntire Peters | Nextgov | October 21, 2013

In explaining the administration’s implementation of the Affordable Care Act, President Obama sought to put the botched website in some perspective: “We did not wage this long contentious battle just around a website,” he noted. “That’s not what this was about.” Read More »

More Aggressive Oversight Of Agency FOIA Compliance Is Needed, GAO Says

Joseph Marks | Nextgov | September 10, 2013

The government ombudsman for evaluating agencies’ compliance with the Freedom of Information Act should be more aggressive, a congressional auditor said on Tuesday. Read More »

New Playbook Examines Dos and Don’ts for Federal Innovation

Hallie Golden | Nextgov | December 16, 2015

Instead of turning to Silicon Valley innovators, federal agencies should take a look at those closer to home: their chief information officers. That’s according to a new playbook on CIO-enabled innovation, released Wednesday through the IBM Center for the Business of Government. The playbook highlights best practices and common challenges when agencies develop innovative tools. 

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No Accurate Records Kept Of Serious Chemical Accidents In U.S.

Noel Brinkerhoff and Danny Biederman | AllGov | August 29, 2013

Following the horrific explosion in West, Texas, earlier this year, the Dallas Morning News wanted to find out how many serious chemical accidents had occurred in the United States. The newspaper combed through 750,000 federal records, only to learn that no single agency in the federal government has been keeping track... Read More »

Obama Eyes $2B Increase In IT Budget

Nicole Blake Johnson | Federal Times | April 17, 2013

The president’s budget proposes nearly $2 billion in additional information technology funding for 2014, which would raise overall IT spending to $82 billion. Read More »

Op-Ed: Open Data Policy Has Far-Reaching Implications For Health Care

Viet Nguyen and Rob Sax | Nextgov | January 10, 2014

In May 2013, the [OMB] released an executive order that requires federal agencies to use machine-readable and open formats -- in addition to data standards and other regulations -- for creating and collecting information. This new policy will have a significant impact on how public and private organizations access and leverage information. Read More »

Open Access Advocates Protest The FIRST Act

Sal Robinson | Melville House | November 18, 2013

When, in February 2013, the White House issued a directive stating that all larger federal agencies (agencies that spent over $100 million R&D annually) should make the results of any federally funded research available to the public within a year of publication, Open Access advocates cheered. [...] However, a new bill [...] now threatens to reverse the progress made earlier in the year. Read More »

Open Data Executive Order Compliance: The Bad And The Good.

Matthew Rumsey and Ginger McCall | Sunlight Foundation | December 2, 2013

The first major deadline for agency compliance with President Obama's open data Executive Order arrived this past Saturday. Agencies were required to, among other things, provide the Office of Management and Budget with an "Enterprise Data Inventory" and release a list of all their public data via a /data page on their websites. Read More »

Open Source Community Gathers For Red Hat Government Symposium

David Stegon | FedScoop | October 24, 2012

Open source continues to be used in new and innovative ways as federal agencies become more comfortable with the software development philosophy that helps solve common problems with common solutions, said Red Hat Vice President and General Manager of U.S. Public Sector Paul Smith. Read More »

Open-Source Platform Gains Popularity In Government

Stuart Corner | The Age | September 24, 2013

So popular has a little-known open-source program become within federal government agencies that there is now a shortage of expertise in Canberra. Read More »

Oracle Won’t Block Open Source In The Public Sector

Ed Boyajian | Tech Week Europe | January 24, 2014

Last year, Oracle flamed out in its attempt to stall the adoption of open source technology by the US Department of Defense (DoD) when a  White Paper surfaced, in which Oracle warns the DoD about the dangers of hidden costs and inefficiency of open source software, and tries to explain the proper handling of such technology. Read More »

OSTP Asks Agencies For 'Bold, Ambitious' Open Government Initiatives

Jason Miller | Federal News Radio | March 3, 2014

The administration's open government initiative has been quiet after its initial push during the first two years of President Barack Obama's administration. But new guidance from the Office of Science and Technology Policy is trying to reinvigorate agency efforts. Read More »

Portability Challenges For Government Agencies Moving To Hybrid Clouds

Jeff Baxter | Computerworld | October 17, 2013

The inaugural IDC Government Insights report, released earlier this year, paints a revealing picture of how the U.S. Federal Government is spending and planning to spend information technology (IT) dollars on cloud solutions. Read More »