People

Teri Takai appointed DOD's CIO

Former California chief information officer Teri Takai has been appointed as the Defense Department's CIO.

Digital Government

Never too late to learn

There’s a certain comfort in going to work and knowing that you can sit at your desk and handle anything that comes your way. That you have the knowledge and experience to get the job done. That you could do your job with your eyes shut.

Digital Government

GSA plans employee teleconference program

AT&T has been awarded an estimated $18 million task order to develop and manage GSA's new virtual meeting places.

Digital Government

GAO faults disaster recovery plan for critical networks

Auditors say Homeland Security does not have an effective way to rebound from national disaster.

Digital Government

Homeland Security tries new approach to IT collaboration

CIO is bringing together leaders of component agencies to develop shared technology.

Modernization

GSA advances the virtual meeting place

Agency to build teleconference centers across the United States.

Digital Government

New consumer financial agency to rely on crowdsourcing

Investigations through crowd-sourcing, wikis, and heat-mapping

Digital Government

OMB eases reporting requirements for financial chiefs

Reducing data trail could make it difficult to assess government's fiscal management performance, critics say.

Ideas

GSA to Create Virtual Meeting Centers

Ideas

Bass Leaving OMB Watch

Digital Government

OPM Recognizes CHCO IT Efforts

Digital Government

Federal IT Action Plan

People

Commission: Government needs new approach to program management

The federal govenrment should make program management a formal career track and establish a training academy, a new report states.

Digital Government

Building Excitement at HHS

Cybersecurity

Lots of Internet Freedom in Russia

Modernization

Data center recount: Bigger problem, tougher solution than previously thought

Feds are finding that the total number of data centers is higher than once thought, which is complicating consolidation plans.