Day archives: March 14th, 2016

From waterfall to agile: How a public-sector agency successfully changed its system-development approach to become digital

McKinsey & Company – March 2016 – From waterfall to agile: How a public-sector agency successfully changed its system- development approach to become digital, Martin Lundqvist and Peter Braad Olesen. “Government agencies around the world are under internal and external pressure to become more efficient by incorporating digital technologies and processes into their day-to-day operations. …

Subjects: E-Government, Economy, Financial System, Knowledge Management

D.C. Area’s Housing Prices Based On Proximity To Metro Stations

via dcist: Christina SturdivantLooking to purchase a home near the Metro? Properties close to certain stations are considerably cheaper than others, according to real estate search site Estately, which analyzed pricing info from the last six months of home sales near each of the area’s stations. Today, the site released data showing a $700,000 price …

Subjects: Economy, Housing, Transportation

Army Data Strategy 2016

Army Data Strategy, February 2016 – Information Architecture Division, Army Architecture Integration Center HQDA CIO/G-6 Version 1. “As an architectural paradigm, the Army network, which is the Army’s portion of the DoD Information Network, is changing from a loose federation of stove piped IT systems to a single, integrated, service- oriented, information – sharing environment. …

Subjects: Government Documents, Internet, Knowledge Management

Alternatives for Making Federal Highway Spending More Productive

“Presentation by Chad Shirley, CBO’s Deputy Assistant Director for Microeconomic Studies, at the Transportation Policy & Finance Summit of the International Bridge, Tunnel and Turnpike Association (IBTTA). Federal spending on highways (or, synonymously, roads) totaled $46 billion in 2014, roughly a quarter of total public spending on highways. But that spending does not correspond very …

Subjects: Economy, Government Documents, Transportation

EFF – What We Talk About When We Talk About Apple and Compelled Speech

Via EFF – “Last week, EFF filed a brief in support of Apple’s fight against the FBI, in which we argued that forcing Apple to write—and sign—a custom version of iOS would violate the First Amendment rights of Apple and its programmers. That’s because the right to free speech sharply limits the government’s ability to …

Subjects: Civil Liberties, Defense, E-Government, E-Mail, E-Records, Free Speech, Government Documents, Internet, Legal Research, Privacy

GAO Reports – Social Security Disability, Oil and Gas Management, U.S. Secret Service

Social Security Disability: SSA Could Increase Savings by Refining Its Selection of Cases for Disability Review, GAO-16-250: Published: Feb 11, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 14, 2016. Oil and Gas Management: Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement Restructuring Has Not Addressed Long-Standing Oversight Deficiencies, GAO-16-245: Published: Feb 10, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 11, 2016. U.S. …

Subjects: Defense, Economy, Energy, Environmental Law, Government Documents, Health Care

GAO – USDA and EPA Should Take Additional Actions to Address Threats to Bee Populations

Bee Health: USDA and EPA Should Take Additional Actions to Address Threats to Bee Populations, GAO-16-220: Published: Feb 10, 2016. Publicly Released: Mar 11, 2016: “Honey bees and other managed and wild, native bees provide valuable pollination services to agriculture worth billions of dollars to farmers. Government and university researchers have documented declines in some …

Subjects: Economy, Environmental Law, Food and Nutrition, Government Documents

Get Your Free Copy of the Consumer Action Handbook

“The Consumer Action Handbook is a free resource guide that provides general information on shopping for goods and services and tips about your consumer rights. The Handbook has information to help you file a complaint about a purchase and includes a sample complaint letter that you can use and send to a company. It also includes a consumer assistance …

Subjects: E-Government, Government Documents, Knowledge Management

Radiation expert reviews the ongoing impact of Fukushima catastrophe

Radiation expert Andrew Karam, who covered the disaster for Popular Mechanics in 2011 and later traveled to study the site, explains everything you need to know about Fukushima’s legacy and danger five years later. See also via Newsweek – “The robots sent in to find highly radioactive fuel at Fukushima’s nuclear reactors have “died”: a subterranean …

Subjects: Environmental Law

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