Modernization

Navy faces headwinds in critical IT plans

IT, now as important as any other weapons system, cannot afford to be shortchanged by budget and force cuts, Navy officials say.

People

The dollars and sense of rightsizing the federal workforce

Recent proposals to reduce the federal workforce are ambiguous and oversimplified, writes William R. Dougan, president of the National Federation of Federal Employees.

Digital Government

Senator wants the Texas approach to cut federal waste

Cornyn asks the Obama administration to create a sunset committee similar to one used by Texas that's killed programs and cut state spending.

Digital Government

Legislation would ban grants to tax delinquents

An amendment sponsored by Sen. Charles Grassley (R-Iowa) would forbid federal agencies to provide grants to tax delinquents.

People

Study: Work is not a place to go

Four questions IT leaders should be able to answer about equipping a mobile workforce.

People

Which agency's wiki won an innovation award?

The Training Officers Consortium has picked an agency wiki for an innovation award, based on its criteria of using non-traditional methods and tools to achieve performance goals.

Acquisition

GAO will finish its bid protest work

The Defense Information Systems Agency contended that GAO's authority to review certain bid protests ended on May 27, leaving Technatomy’s protest without merit.

Acquisition

Ginman officially named director of defense procurement policy

Richard Ginman takes place of Shay Assad in defense procurement policy, as Assad moves to pricing policies.

Modernization

Cultural and code change needed to revamp FCC.gov website, VanRoekel says

Steven VanRoekel describes how he applied IT and management skills learned from the private sector to the remaking of the Federal Communications Commission's website.

Digital Government

Biden simplifies federal website message a bit too much

In announcing a campaign to cut unneeded websites, Joe Biden and others may have lost some precision.

Modernization

Are consolidation's savings a mirage?

Migrating software to a new data center could take a big bite out of consolidation's anticipated payback.

Cybersecurity

Are Hacking Gangs Back?

People

Devaney: Quality goes up when recipients report

Contractors and grant recipients want to save face and avoid unwanted attention, so their data has better quality, official testifies.

Modernization

Stimulus watchdog pushes unified coding system for governmentwide spending site

Recovery Board chief says a rigorous recipient reporting scheme will put agencies and their IGs on the same page.