Digital Government

White House deputy CTO leaves, will target state and local collaboration

Andrew McLaughlin is resigning from his job as deputy White House chief technology officer to start two companies, one of them to develop collaboration tools for state and local governments.

Digital Government

FCC seeks to modernize emergency assistance system

Next Generation 911 will accommodate photo, text and video technologies.

Cybersecurity

Defense bill calls on Pentagon to evaluate commercial cloud computing

Congress wants department to assess companies' ability to provide secure Internet-based services.

Cybersecurity

Whistleblower Bill: Fire WikiLeaks Perps

Ideas

SBA Website Gets a Makeover

Digital Government

Federal Pay Freeze Moves Forward

Digital Government

Compete for fun and prizes: Agencies likely to get broad authority to run contests

Federal agencies would receive broad authority to sponsor prize contests for innovation under the America COMPETES Act approved by both houses of Congress.

People

The VA's CIO wants IT budget restoration

Veterans Affairs Department CIO Roger Baker said his department saved $250 million through management discipline of IT projects in fiscal 2010.

Digital Government

Privacy v transparency

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