The Department of Defense has opened two new websites designed to inform the public on research and engineering efforts. The Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for R&E's directorate for research and
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A new Answers Corp. survey has revealed a growing user satisfaction in federal mobile resources compared to private sector mobile services for the retail, financial services and utilities markets. Answers said Tuesday
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A Congressional Research Service report claims the White House’s federal website reform program completed less than half of its targeted website consolidation projects since July 2011. According to Fierce Government IT,
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Agencies reported plans to eliminate or merge 30 percent of their some 1,000 plus domains in the State of the Federal Web report, produced by the .gov Reform Task Force. The report attempts
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An agency that deals mainly in crunching numbers takes the top spot for having clear and easy-to-understand written content, according to a recent survey. VisibleThread, a firm specializing in developing document
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Nearly a fourth of the domains are unreachable, according to a recent analysis of the federal government’s online portfolio. Ben Balter, a new media fellow at the Federal Communications Commission and M.B.A.
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A freeze on new federal websites will continue through the remainder of this calendar year, said a memo on behalf of new federal chief information officer Steven VanRoekel. The freeze is part
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The Social Security Administration needs a strong long-term plan for online customer self-services, the agency’s inspector general said. InformationWeek reports the SSA currently offers 21 citizen-to-government services via the Internet as part
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The Energy Department on Thursday relaunched its website as part of its comprehensive website reform. The new website was created through a complete overhaul of its front-end and back-end design. It now
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Just as open-government websites find themselves facing drastic cuts, a new American Consumer Satisfaction Index, conducted by Ann Arbor, Mich.-based ForeSee Results, indicates that effective federal websites could actually save the government
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