Digital Government

Telework-Happy Feds

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

Consumer database goes live March 11 despite House action

The Consumer Product Safety Commission is set to debut its new database online despite the House's passage of a bill with a provision to block funding for it.

Digital Government

How to write a great government blog

How to write a great blog about the government -- a guide for federal bloggers and others.

Cybersecurity

6 government blogs worth visiting as often as you can

We point you to some of the best government blogs.

People

Blog fail! 3 blogs that just don't cut it.

Here are a handful of federal blogs that aren't winners, for one reason or another.

Digital Government

U.S. might be giving away sensitive military technology, report finds

A major decline in the number of foreign worker visas screened by Commerce is part of the problem, GAO says.

Digital Government

Some tax preparers continue to resist the IRS e-filing system

Agency's target is for 80 percent of returns to be filed electronically.

Digital Government

Kundra's $2,000 mobile subsidy: What can it really get you?

In a casual aside at an AFCEA breakfast in late February, federal CIO Vivek Kundra mentioned the possibility of a $2,000 subsidy for federal employee mobile purchases. Is $2,000 enough? Let's look at the numbers.

Digital Government

Telework option makes for happier employees

Feds who have the choice to telework are more satisfied than those who don't have that choice, the Partnership for Public Service finds.

Digital Government

What’s in a title?

We wonder, because—amid charges that federal employees are overpaid—the House Oversight and Government Reform federal workforce subcommittee on March 9 will convene a hearing that asks: “Are Federal Workers Underpaid?”

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity solution needs better partnerships, not more rules, group says

A coalition of industry organizations is warning against abandoning the partnership model for infrastructure protection, calling instead for increased cooperation and financial incentives.