Digital Government
EPA passes new fracking rules
Natural gas companies can keep drilling per usual, say the Environmental Protection Agency's new rules for hydraulic fracturing or, as everybody who's not a government employee refers to it, "fracking."
Cybersecurity
Cybersecurity is Coming! Cybersecurity is Coming!
As widely reported, next week will be busy as the House takes up a series (probably) of cybersecurity bills as part of the House Republican Leadership's designated "Cybersecurity Week."
People
How to create cross-agency networks that work
A recent book identifies eight guiding principles for fostering collaboration between organizations, writes IBM’s John Kamensky.
Modernization
How cloud storage could catch up with big data
Erasure coding is emerging as a cost-effective way to safely maintain vast amounts of data in the cloud.
Digital Government
Audit finds shortcomings in how FDA manages IT investments
The Food and Drug Administration has an IT investment budget of about $400 million a year that needs to be managed better, according to a new report from the Government Accountability Office.
Acquisition
Contracting reforms could come in the next defense authorization bill
Rep. Sam Graves, whose Small Business Committee already approved eight small-business contracting reform bills, is asking for similar measures to appear in the fiscal 2013 National Defense Authorization Act.
Digital Government
IRS cautioned not to give up legacy e-file system yet
The Internal Revenue Service is in the final phase of transitioning to its Modernized e-File system, but recent performance problems suggest it should not give up its legacy system yet, according to a new audit.
People
Clinton espouses tech tools for diplomacy in Brazil
Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said she is distributing guidance to U.S. embassies on using tech tools for diplomacy.
Cybersecurity
Cedric Sims leaving DHS
Cedric Sims, a management executive and systems engineer at the Homeland Security Department, announced plans to leave the agency for a new position in the private sector.
Digital Government
Eurozone crisis, luxury consumption
Is Europe's economy affecting luxury spending?
People
Moving beyond telework: What's next?
Where will the evolution of telework take the federal government?
Digital Government
Issa scolds IG about slow reporting
Issa's oversight committee regularly receives updates from IGs, but not from GSA IG Miller regarding his investigation of the lavish Western Regions Conference.
Digital Government
The mind reader from Maryland
Martha Johnson, the General Services Administration's former chief, testified about the infamous 2010 Western Regions Conference April 16, and, for one congressman, her face said everything she was thinking.
Digital Government