Ideas
Debunking the Net Generation
A lot of reports and articles -- including many on this site (<a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20100423_7313.php>here</a> and <a href=http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2010/08/dot_appeals_to_gen_y_online.php>here</a>) and on Government Executive (<a href=http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?filepath=/features/1109-01/1109-01adif.htm>here</a> and <a href=http://www.govexec.com/features/0707-15/0707-15s1.htm>here</a>) -- that depicts younger workers and the Internet as joined at the hip. The 'Net, and the social networking it spawned, are indispensable to the so-called Net Generation (those between the ages of 17 and 31) and they demand to have the tools at the ready at work, sociologists say.
Cybersecurity
Kill the Catch Phrase
Deloitte pushed out a press release Tuesday on recently being named the "best iconic and overall structure" winner for the 2010 National Cybersecurity Awareness Challenge. But is it newsworthy?
Digital Government
DHS Scraps Automated Hiring Tool
The Homeland Security Department has abandoned a technology platform that the agency hoped would simplify and accelerate its recruiting and hiring activities.
Cybersecurity
FCC charts 'Cybersecurity Roadmap' with public's help
The Federal Communications Commission wants public feedback as it develops its plan for cybersecurity.
People
Insourcing failed, DOD's Gates says. Now what?
Insourcing didn't bring in the savings that DOD officials had planned or hoped for, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said.
Digital Government
Social media, parasailing donkeys and the news crisis
Blogger John Klossner is skeptical that social networking sites -- cartoonist blogs included -- are ready to fill the gap left by mainstream media.
Digital Government
DARPA lays out bedrock R&D privacy principles
Some folks at DARPA have come up with a set of privacy principles that offer some hope that privacy could become a part of fundamental technology R&D, writes blogger Brian Robinson.
Digital Government
VA to test paperless claims processing system
The Veterans Affairs Department will start testing a new paperless system to process disability claims in November.
Digital Government
Census came in $1.6B under budget, Locke says
Commerce Secretary Gary Locke today said there was a 22 percent savings in this year's budget for the 2010 U.S. Census.
Digital Government
More Attacks on Federal Pay
Another <a href="http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/income/2010-08-10-1Afedpay10_ST_N.htm">article</a> in <em>USA Today</em> again claims that federal pay is significantly higher than private sector pay. Federal employees have been awarded bigger average pay and benefit increases than private employees for nine years consecutive years, forcing the compensation gap to double over the past decade, the article states.
Digital Government
How would a federal workforce cap affect agency performance?
With budget deficits edging ever higher—and the overall economic recovery slow, at best—some in Congress are complaining the current growth of the federal workforce is irresponsible—and must be stopped.
Digital Government
What would the CIO do in Gates' new DOD?
Defense Secretary Robert Gates proposes closing the current chief information officer's office. What shape should the role take in the future?
Digital Government
Former NASA administrator on crashed flight in Alaska
Former NASA Administrator Sean O'Keefe, who is now chief executive officer of EADS North America, is among the passengers on a plane that crashed in Alaska Monday night, the company said Tuesday.
Digital Government
Commerce reports $1.6 billion savings for decennial census
Officials attribute savings to good management and aggressive advertising.
Digital Government
Agencies could be prone to new kind of sophisticated cyberattack
The government should watch out for "man-in-the-browser" attacks that have been used to steal money from financial institutions, security expert says.
Digital Government
House leaders raise financial reporting proposal again
Lawmakers back a bill nearly identical to a regulatory provision that Senate negotiators puzzlingly scrapped during last-minute talks on the reform law.
Modernization
DISA could take on bigger IT role at Defense
In Secretary Gates' reform plans, the information agency will assume daily IT operations and the department's chief information officer, but federal IT experts disagree whether the move will strengthen the CIO as intended.
Cybersecurity
Cyber's Big Business
For Maryland, cybersecurity pays. The state's governor, Martin O'Malley, wrote on Monday in a <a href=http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/08/06/AR2010080605935.html>commentary</a> appearing in the Washington Post's business publication, Capital Business, "Maryland is better positioned than other states to recover from the national recession stronger and sooner."
Digital Government
So Long NII
Defense Secretary Robert Gates made <a href=http://www.defense.gov/news/newsarticle.aspx?id=60348>official</a> the <a href=http://whatsbrewin.nextgov.com/2010/07/bye_bye_nii.php>elimination</a> of the office of the Assistant Secretary for Networks and Information Integration - also known as the office of the chief information officer. At a Pentagon press briefing today he detailed cuts in the Pentagon budget to save $100 billion over the next five years.
Digital Government