Digital Government

Federal Coach: Inspiring a badly battered federal workforce

It has not been an easy time for federal employees, with the pay freeze, attacks on the public sector, budget cutbacks and then the threat of a government shutdown.

Digital Government

Consumer product website dodges GOP budget ax

Newly launched CPSC online compendium of items verified as possible safety risks still opposed by manufacturers groups.

Cybersecurity

Shortage of skilled cyber specialists fuels debate over pay

Network operators and penetration testers could earn more than compliance analysts and auditors.

Digital Government

Government implements new performance management law

Agencies have two weeks to pick a senior official to serve as chief operating officer.

Modernization

Cloud computing: mainframe redux

Large IT vendors are using interest in cloud computing to angle for a much bigger share of your IT spending.

Cybersecurity

China may be winning cyber war

The pace of cyber espionage between China and the United States has accelerated in recent years, and China, with a campaign investigators call 'Byzantine Hades,' may have taken the upper hand, according to a Reuters report citing State Department cables and security experts.

Digital Government

Obama signs 2011 spending bill

President Barack Obama signed the fiscal 2011 spending bill.

Digital Government

The Next Big Tsunami?

Digital Government

Number of IT Grads Increases

Ideas

Obama Dishes on Federal Technology

Digital Government

A discourse on the trials of the left-handed

A left-handed professor learns about the difficulties lefties have to overcome.

Digital Government

White House wants $10M for portal and operations center

The White House has gotten the "Do Not Pay" Web portal running and is preparing for its full implementation by the end of fiscal 2012, a senior official testified on April 15.

Acquisition

Some agencies struggle to recover improper payments

Improper and fraudulent payments to federal contractors got attention at a House subcommittee hearing today.

People

OMB looks for progress on improved performance

Senior Obama administration officials are interested in how agencies have improved themselves based on their priorities during the last year.