Digital Government
Sandy relief bill covers some of VA’s information technology costs
It also includes $207 million to repair the department’s Manhattan hospital.
Digital Government
Sandy bill includes $476 million for NOAA
Funds will help improve weather forecasts and repair or replace damaged systems.
People
Trove of data on energy use expands
New data sources and an extended API increase the Energy Information Administration's offering by 1.4 million data points.
Acquisition
OFPP seeks 'aggressive goals' for agency contractor reviews
Agencies are improving their compliance with requirements to review contractor performance, but is it enough?
Digital Government
Soup, a sandwich and deficit reduction
Steve Kelman wonders if a chain restaurant's charity idea could work for reducing the federal deficit.
Digital Government
NASA chief information officer to step down
Linda Cureton has been at the space agency since 2009.
People
Armed Services Committee assigns subcommittee leaders
Chairman Buck McKeon and ranking member Adam Smith announce the roster of leaders for the Committee's new makeup.
Digital Government
The government is still trying to spy on a lot of your Twitter and Google data
80 percent of the U.S. government's asks on user data came without a warrant.
Digital Government
North Korea and its gulags are now on Google Maps
To build the new maps, a community of citizen cartographers came together in Google Map Maker.
Modernization
Labor inks $50 million cloud email deal with Microsoft vendor
The cloud-based email will replace nine separate legacy systems.
Acquisition
Senator seeks grassroots budget input
An online tool allows the public to contribute to the debate on federal budge priorities.
People
CIOs told to improve Section 508 standards
OMB has given agency CIOs new marching orders for making agency IT accessible to the disabled.
Modernization
What does Google do if the government comes looking for your emails?
The company has clarified a bit about its process for responding to government requests for user data.
Digital Government
Why has Iran slowed its nuclear program on purpose?
According to Israeli intelligence, cyberattacks and malfunctions were only part of the reason for the deceleration.
Modernization
ICE gives thousands of employees <span>i</span>Phones for work and play
Agency began distributing secured government-owned Apple devices after discontinuing a BlackBerry contract.
People
Transportation secretary resigns
Ray LaHood will not stay through President Obama's second term.
People
VA academy gets new leader
Former deputy director of the Office of Acquisition and Grants Management for the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services takes the lead in acquisition training.
People
NASA CIO Linda Cureton plans exit
An early adopter of social media and blogging in the government, Linda Cureton is looking toward a new horizon.
Cybersecurity
Cyber stakeout at Illinois nursing home yields $170,000
Financial Services // Healthcare and Public Health // Illinois, United States
Cybersecurity