Digital Government

Governmentwide contracts program will remain intact

GSA official says he was making a long-term projection when he told conference participants the agency would merge GWACs with its schedules program.

Digital Government

Metro control system fails test

The Washington Post

Digital Government

CTO Levin to Do VA's Tech Vision Thing

The Veterans Affairs Department has hired <a href=http://www.eetimes.com/news/latest/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=181502820>Peter Levin</a>, a White House fellow in the Clinton administration, as its new chief technology officer in the office of the secretary and senior advisor to VA Secretary Eric Shinseki, Press Secretary Katie Roberts told me.

Digital Government

Ondra Not a candidate for VA Post

On Monday I <a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2009/06/gulf_war_vet_edges_closer_to_t.php>suggested</a> that Dr. Stephen Ondra, an Army Gulf War vet who is a professor of neurological surgery at the <a href="http://www.feinberg.northwestern.edu/">Feinberg School of Medicine</a> at Northwestern University in Chicago, had the inside track for appointment as under secretary for health at the Veterans Health Administration.

Digital Government

Productivity Boost

A new <a href="http://www.kellyservices.com/web/global/services/en/pages/kelly_global_workforce_index.html">survey</a> by Kelly Services reports that use of mobile communications technologies such as smartphones and laptops are driving positive changes in employee behavior and a shift in work-life balance.

Digital Government

Inversion of Expectations

Rob Salkowitz <a href="http://www.internetevolution.com/author.asp?section_id=697&amp;doc_id=178469">writes</a> over at the Internet Evolution blog on how the long and established cultures at Lockheed Martin and the CIA have actually mitigated the generational issues that often come with adopting Web 2.0 technologies.

Digital Government

House backs biometrics in DHS 2010 spending bill

The House endorsed a spending increase on DHS' largest biometrics program in the fiscal 2010 spending bill it has passed.

Digital Government

VA says it's on schedule to process new education claims on time

New applications and systems are keeping the agency ahead of the incoming claims, but some worry demand may increase later in the summer, overwhelming processors.