Digital Government

Stimulus funds for IT require new procurement strategy

Agencies and vendors should focus on objectives, cost savings and benchmarks of success in critical programs, research group says.

Digital Government

Defense urged to develop a weapon to disable foreign satellites

But advice comes with warnings about costs, creating destructive space debris and unleashing a new arms race.

Digital Government

Obama official agrees more needs to be done on stimulus transparency

Stimulus oversight chief Earl Devaney told members of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee that firm estimates of how much of the $787 billion stimulus funds had been dispensed by federal agencies were not yet available.

Digital Government

TSA lacks technology to meet air cargo screening goal

Lawmaker says Congress might have to take steps to help the agency reach a August 2010 deadline to screen all cargo transported on passenger planes for weapons of mass destruction.

Digital Government

Platoon Of Generals Take the Hill

There's just under 20 generals from all four services testifying on Capitol Hill today, according to a handy <a href=http://www.defenselink.mil/today/index.aspx?ShowDate=03/18/2009>list</a> put out by the Defense Department press shop, along with a handful of assistant or under secretaries, which put the number of top Defense managers on the Hill today well above 20.

Digital Government

IBM's rumored acquisition of Sun would have little impact

Procurement specialists and company partners predict a consolidation of product lines.

Digital Government

Delay of weather satellite launch causes concern about future forecasts

Timeline now extends into the end of the life cycle for satellites now used to forecast weather.

Digital Government

SEC failed to fix security holes; two dozen new ones found

GAO audit finds the commission's weak practices leave financial data open to attack.

Digital Government

Government 2.0 meets catch 22

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