Modernization
AT&T's buyout of T-Mobile: Good or bad for federal IT?
AT&T's plan to buy T-Mobile might be a boon to agencies' mobile aspirations.
Digital Government
The verdict: Work or free time?
Mere hours from this writing on Friday afternoon, many feds either will be heaving a sigh of relief or trying to figure out what to do with their free time.
Digital Government
Free BlackBerry app can take the craziness out of conference calls
App of the Week: Research in Motion attempts to make mobile conference calling easier with a new app available in the BlackBerry Beta Zone.
People
Shutdown Watch: Government funding expires today
Continuing disagreements over spending cuts make a government shutdown almost certain.
Modernization
CIOs get to work on closing data centers
The Federal CIO Council has started a governmentwide data center consolidation task force as part of the Obama administration’s IT reform project.
People
Back-pay question has no clear answers
As the possibility of a government shutdown continues to loom, federal employees remain haunted by the prospect of not being paid for the time they miss because of a furlough.
Digital Government
Shutdown would highlight government's IT dependence, experts say
Federal Computer Week
Digital Government
Lawmaker: TSA should supply screening technology to foreign countries
House Homeland Security subcommittee chairman warns of 'weak security standards in global aviation chain.'
Modernization
Agencies scramble to define critical functions as shutdown looms
Vital technology systems and scientific research will continue uninterrupted, albeit with minimal staff.
Digital Government
Defense official backs commercial software for joint health record
Pentagon plan conflicts with VA's reliance on open-source software.
Digital Government
Done deal: Congress, White House reach agreement
Eleventh-hour stopgap measure averts government shutdown; parties agree to 'historic' cuts.
Digital Government
DOD prepares personnel for government shutdown
The Defense Department will divide its employees into "excepted" and "nonexcepted" from the governmentwide shutdown, and is releasing some details about how it will proceed if funding runs out this weekend.
Digital Government
Federal websites might be unattended or go dark during furloughs
Many questions were raised today on how, and if, federal websites would function and whether any of them would go offline during a federal shutdown.
Digital Government
House passes bill to continue government funding
The funding bill would provide money for civilian agencies through April 15 and the Defense Department through Sept. 30.
People