Cybersecurity

Disaster response agencies need to go mobile, FEMA administrator says

The administrator of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said disaster response agencies should take advantage of the widespread use of mobile phones to improve their disaster communications with the public.

Digital Government

Beat the GSA administrator by a stride and win

GSA is giving out pedometers in a contest to out-walk Martha Johnson, GSA's chief, at the GSA Expo.

Acquisition

IRS postpones 3 percent withholding tax on contractors

The Internal Revenue Service has delayed enforcing a regulation to requiring the government to withhold 3 percent of nearly all of companies’ contract payments.

Digital Government

Osama bin Laden's technologies uncovered

The military searches for answers into a terrorist's thinking by devouring the technology found at the bin Laden compound.

Cybersecurity

Survey: Federal security chiefs pull top salaries among global cyber workforce

Government CIOs are embracing social networking tools, but aren't necessarily applying controls.

Digital Government

Are bills targeting the federal workforce destined to fail?

Rep. Tom Marino (R-Pa.) introduced a bill May 5 to freeze most federal hiring. But will Marino's legislation (or other similar bills) ever get anywhere?

People

The best of the federal blogosphere

The 5 people you meet in CIO heaven; FCC takes a new stab at open government; What I want on Earth Day; Earth Team skills on display.

Digital Government

Recommended reading

IT workers feeling the pinch; The IPv6 brain drain; Beyond ping pong tables.

Digital Government

Freezing IT Hires

Acquisition

Analysts see dynamic, changing defense industry

A new study says the defense industrial base isn't consolidating into a select few mega-companies that would get all of DOD's business.

Digital Government

50 years later: Is the Web an even vaster wasteland than TV?

Monday, May 9 marks the 50th anniversary of the speech by then-FCC Chairman Newton Minow in which he described television as "a vast wasteland."

Cybersecurity

DHS acquisition oversight has holes, IG report says

DHS' inspector general found that some component agencies are making acquisitions more complex and costly than necessary.