Modernization
White House wants agency for education IT
President Barack Obama is calling for creating a research agency to advance digital tutoring, educational games and other learning and teaching IT.
Cybersecurity
Cyber groups: Better partnership with feds needed, not more regs
Government Computer News
Digital Government
GPS industry and new cellular carrier spar over interference issue
Effort to expand broadband access could cause massive disruption, critics say.
Cybersecurity
Administration excoriated for delay in proposing cyber plan
Impatient Sen. Whitehouse elicits promise from Homeland Security secretary that White House will soon deliver legislative offer to thwart online attacks.
People
OPM director discourages move to pay for performance at hearing
Are feds overpaid, underpaid or paid just right? Lawmakers hear competing arguments at a hearing that could lead to changes in the pay system.
Digital Government
VA improving IT performance, CIO says
After two years, CIO Roger Baker says he's seeing improvements in VA's troubled IT operations.
Digital Government
And now—back by popular demand—it’s pay for performance
Pay for performance is the zombie of pay systems. Just when it seems to be dead, it’s up and walking around again.
Cybersecurity
Real ID deadline pushed back to January 2013
The deadline for states to comply with the controversial Real ID Act of 2005 has been pushed back to early 2013.
Modernization