Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have become commonplace tools for government outreach. However, agencies are moving away from social media as an outbound communication tool and enlisting social media to help do many jobs better. Agencies leverage social media to reach underserved audiences during key initiatives who otherwise would not have paid attention to the referendum, get accurate information out more quickly...

Social media platforms such as Twitter, Facebook and YouTube have become commonplace tools for government outreach. However, agencies are moving away from social media as an outbound communication tool and enlisting social media to help do many jobs better. Agencies leverage social media to reach underserved audiences during key initiatives who otherwise would not have paid attention to the referendum, get accurate information out more quickly...

As government moves to a more mobile workforce, demand for consistent and standards-driven application development and deployment has become even more critical – especially in an environment of shrinking budgets. It is important to develop cost-effective applications that are easily extensible for use on mobile devices, with the ability to be built once and tweaked for use across the enterprise. Agencies and the public both need to creat...

This August, the Administration’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) reached another milestone in the effort to create a common identity infrastructure for the Internet. A new pilot program from the US Postal Service promises a time when citizens will soon be able to access everything from federal health benefits to student loan information using a single ID and password. The project will create a cloud-servic...

Due to the government shutdown, the October 16 breakfast has been rescheduled for November 7. If you’ve already registered for the October breakfast your registration will be transferred. This August, the Administration’s National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) reached another milestone in the effort to create a common identity infrastructure for the Internet. A new pilot program from the US Postal Service pr...

Please join us for AFCEA Bethesda's monthly breakfast to be held September 25, 2013 at the Bethesda North Marriott and conference center.

The fiscal cliff negotiations have threatened to not only impact the future of agency budgets, but also the release of the FY 2014 proposal itself. The White House has confirmed the Administration’s fiscal 2014 budget will not be ready by the normal release date in early February, injecting more uncertainty into an already complex environment. What does this mean for federal agencies and the companies that support them? Already, the FY 2...

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This November marked the halfway point of the Digital Government Strategy, a full-year plan aimed at delivering higher quality digital services to the public – and many deliverables have already been met. Several second quarter milestone actions in particular provided huge progress to the program, including GSA’s customer engagement initiatives, the Federal CIO Council’s BYOD Toolkit and NIST’s application of standards...

The AFCEA Bethesda Monthly Breakfast series features panel discussions led by senior-executive government representatives. With speakers drawn largely from federal civilian agencies, breakfast topics span a wide range of timely issues—from health IT to cybersecurity to Gov 2.0—and are discussed in a panel format that offers a compelling snapshot of multiple agency perspectives. The goals of the event are to foster better inter-agen...