Digital Government
Freezing out feds on the payroll front
While they haven’t had much success, some in Congress are calling for a federal pay freeze for Fiscal Year 2011.
Digital Government
Obama Opposes 1.9 Percent Pay Boost
President Obama on Thursday voiced his opposition to authorizing a 1.9 percent pay raise for military members in the fiscal 2011 Defense authorization bill. In a <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/sap_111/saphr5136h_20100527.pdf">statement of administration policy</a>, the president stood by his February budget request of a 1.4 percent increase for military personnel. Obama's support for a 1.4 percent military pay raise could have implications for the 2011 federal pay raise, as the president promised in late 2009 to ensure pay parity between military members and federal civilians in 2011.
Digital Government
FAA issues rule on satellite-based air traffic control
The Federal Aviation Administration has set requirements for satellite-based tracking technology that's central to its planned next-generation air traffic control system.
Digital Government
Reduced funding might actually improve intelligence work
Declining budgets could force intelligence agencies to streamline redundant analysis systems.
Acquisition
Army plans review of what and how it buys
Army officials have tasked an independent panel with an in-depth review of how it buys goods and services and who makes the purchases.
Digital Government
FAA: Aircraft must adopt new communications system by 2020
Satellite-based technology will improve accuracy and visibility of flight position information.
Cybersecurity
National strategy is light on cybersecurity details
Plan devotes more attention to computer threats than previous documents, but still doesn't offer concrete solutions, a security specialist says.
Cybersecurity
House cybersecurity overhaul included in Defense authorization bill
Legislation would update requirements for safeguarding data and establish a national cyberspace office.
Digital Government
White House to tie together mapping and data sites
By making applications on Geodata.gov available on Data.gov, the public will be able to mashup disparate information to create layered maps that they can share.
Digital Government
Navy joins effort to track moving oil slick in the Gulf
The service deploys systems to measure currents, water temperature, salinity and organic matter such as oil from the surface to depths of thousands of feet to develop a model of the evolving spill and where it's headed.
Digital Government
America's First Black Aviator
Ask anyone to identify America's first black aviators, and they would undoubtedly cite the famed <a href=http://www.tuskegeeairmen.org/>Tuskegee Airmen</a> of World War II, including Benjamin Oliver Davis Jr., who went on to become the first African American Air Force General.
Ideas
OPM Finds Lots More Teleworkers
The Office of Personnel Management conducted a survey of federal workers on telework habits and has begun to munch the numbers. While the survey findings haven't been released, Justin Johnson, deputy chief of staff at OPM, gave a sneak peek at some of the results during a panel discussion on telework on Thursday.
Digital Government