ADVERTISEMENT Brought to you by MarkLogic The Era of Big Data in Government Has Arrived Agencies must quickly and effectively leverage a tidal wave of information for mission success. Listen to this webcast featuring Donald Feinberg, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst from Gartner, on the explosion in data volume, velocity, variety, and complexity. Learn about the future of data management, how to exploit Big Data to your advantage, and tools for producing actionable intelligence at internet scale and speed. Watch now.

TOP STORIES

• USDA plans internal app store in 2012
  The Agriculture Department is developing a mobile application it believes will cut in half the travel required of its Natural Resources Conservation Service employees working on projects to reduce chemical runoff at farms, an Agriculture official said Wednesday.... full article
• Army-Navy game rivalry plays out on Facebook, Twitter
  The annual Army-Navy football game is set to kick off at 2:30 p.m. Saturday at FedEx Field in Landover, Md., following a two-week pregame show on social media sites -- including the Facebook pages of the two service chiefs.... full article
• Social media isn't a major path to radicalization
  Al Qaeda and other Muslim extremist groups are active on Facebook, YouTube and other social media, but that doesn't mean they're making much impact, experts testified before a House panel Tuesday.... full article
• Test results prompt new round in GPS, LightSquared fight
  The government began testing whether LightSquared's proposed wireless service interferes with GPS devices after concerns were raised in Congress, agencies, and industry earlier this year. The next phase in the debate begins this month: a clash over what the results mean.... full article
• If you think you'll save money with cloud computing, think again
  More than half of organizational users saved little or no money after transitioning to cloud computing, according to a new study, and only 14 percent actually downsized their information technology departments after moving to the cloud.... full article
• New cyber info-sharing measure gets nod from privacy proponents
  This story was updated to include comments from a House Intelligence Committee staff member.... full article
• Drone was gathering intelligence when it went down in Iran, U.S. officials say
  The super-secret drone that Iran claims to have recovered was on a CIA "Focal Point" mission, gathering intelligence and likely crashed though it remains uncertain whether it was able to self-destruct, U.S. officials told National Journal on Tuesday.... full article

DEFENSE IT: WHAT'S BREWIN'

• VA Delays System for Tracking Equipment (and Employees)
  The Veterans Affairs Department is pushing back the release date of the draft request for proposals for its $550 million Real Time Location System contract from yesterday, December 6, until this Friday, December 9.... full article

TECH INSIDER

• State Launches Virtual Embassy Tehran
  The State Department launched Virtual Embassy Tehran, on Tuesday, a website officials hope will "work as a bridge between the American and Iranian people."... full article

WIRED WORKPLACE

• Telework: One Year Later
  It's been one year since the 2010 Telework Enhancement Act was signed into law, and some agencies already are making notable progress on telework implementation.... full article

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The Era of Big Data in Government Has Arrived

Agencies must quickly and effectively leverage a tidal wave of information for mission success. Listen to this webcast featuring Donald Feinberg, Vice President and Distinguished Analyst from Gartner, on the explosion in data volume, velocity, variety, and complexity. Learn about the future of data management, how to exploit Big Data to your advantage, and tools for producing actionable intelligence at internet scale and speed.
Watch now.

HEALTH IT UPDATE

• Social Docs Share Health IT Tips
  A group of physicians is using the latest social-media technology to help demystify health information technology that is overwhelming many of their medical colleagues.... full article
• Cost of Health IT Breaches Rises
  Health-care providers lose an average of $2.24 million every time private patient information is compromised by security breaches, costing doctors and hospitals nationwide an estimated $6.5 billion annually, a new study estimates.... full article

CYBERSECURITY REPORT

• Indie Programmer Tries Debunking Phone Spying Myths
  As lawmakers dispatch letters to cellphone-monitoring firm Carrier IQ, outraged over tales of the Silicon Valley company tracking callers' keystrokes, one independent programmer says the software is not capable of recording button-pressing beyond dialed numbers.... full article