The Social Security Administration should press on with a project to convert its assembler language-coded master file database into an IBM DB2 mainframe database, despite the fact that other... Read more...

Raw data isn't always the same as government transparency, said speakers and audience members during a May 25 session at the Gov 2.0 Expo in Washington, D.C. Said one audience member, "there are... Read more...

The Social Security Administration is struggling to provide benefits to a growing number of retiring baby boomers. At the same time it does not have a modern, online system to deploy. The obstacle is... Read more...

It's been 50 years since Grace Hopper developed Cobol, a programming language that still remains in use across government. Still, Cobol--which stands for Common Business-Oriented Language--exists at... Read more...

There's nothing more frustrating than a lost letter in the mail. But now the U.S. Postal Service has come up with a foolproof way to track the mail, using an open source tool for its Product Tracking... Read more...

Roger Baker, the VA's new CIO, has plenty of ideas about what information technology works and what doesn't for the Department of Veterans Affairs. He is certain of one thing: It won't be easy moving... Read more...