Digital Government

Parsing Silver's meaning

The Conversation: Our responses to your questions and comments.

Digital Government

The 10 'Sticky States' Where Feds Will Have Trouble Recruiting IT Talent

If you want to hire skilled techies, head South.

Cybersecurity

Napolitano: Sequestration Could Compromise U.S. Computer Networks

A governmentwide intrusion detection system also could take a hit.

People

New names, new roles on Senate oversight panel

The new congress brings a new roster of overseers, aided by some familiar names.

Emerging Tech

Battery Company Employees Played Video Games on Taxpayers’ Dime

IG audit found Recovery Act stimulus funds were misused, just as President Obama is pitching new clean-energy investments.

People

OMB guidance promised to ensure USASpending accuracy

Controller Danny Werfel: It does not matter 'how awesomely relevant this information is if it lacks reliability.'

Emerging Tech

Obama Sees the Future of Manufacturing: 3-D Printing

The sci-fi technology could 'revolutionize the way we make almost everything,' he says.

Emerging Tech

White House Touts Citizen Responses to State of the Union

The Obama administration is collecting sentence-by-sentence responses to the speech using a new digital tool.

Cybersecurity

The return of CISPA

A controversial bill that died in the Senate last year has been reintroduced, with bipartisan sponsors defending the legislation's privacy protections.

Cybersecurity

So there's an executive order: Now what?

With the cybersecurity directive now official, stakeholders start to wrestle with questions of implementation.

Acquisition

OASIS creates thirst for answers

Does GSA's latest contract for professional services push strategic sourcing past reasonable limits?

Modernization

Why Google Pays Apple $1 Billion a Year

As of March, something like 80 percent of Google's phone-search profits came from Apple devices.

Digital Government

An Optimistic Era for Global Infectious Disease Control

The newly appointed director of the Global Fund to Fight HIV, Tuberculosis, and Malaria believes international health efforts are at the cusp of containing these epidemics.

People

How measurement motivates

Steve Kelman explains the power of stretch goals over general encouragement.

Emerging Tech

Walter Cronkite Demonstrates the Home of the Future in 1967

Take heart. You could be controlling your television from a panel half the size of a pool table.

People

GSA gains a CFO

Mike Casella is moving from USAID to GSA to manage the agency's finances.

Digital Government

National Library of Medicine Seeks User Data from Social Media

Officials want to know how people use data during emergencies and push information more effectively.

Ideas

Storify: Nextgov's #SOTU Livetweets

Relive the real-time updates of Obama's speech.