Digital Government
Army's Go Mobile puts big computing power into soldiers' pockets
The Army is readying a mobile kit based on smart phones that will give soldiers access to the online resources of the Army Knowledge Online portal from anywhere in the world.
Cybersecurity
DHS hosts virtual cybersecurity job fair
The Homeland Security Department has announced a Cybersecurity Virtual Job Fair to greatly expand its computer security workforce.
Ideas
Facebook Suicide
You can bet your "[agency].gpv/ open Web page" (refer to bottom of page 2 in the Office of Management and Budget's <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/assets/memoranda_2010/m10-06.pdf">open government directive</a>) that agencies are going to employ social media tools.
Digital Government
OPM Beefs Up Training Programs
Alex Parker <a href="http://www.govexec.com/story_page.cfm?articleid=44220&dcn=todaysnews">writes</a> at <em>Government Executive</em> that the Office of Personnel Management has issued final regulations that require agencies to improve and monitor their training programs for managers more strictly. The <a href="http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/E9-29480.htm">rules</a>, issued Thursday in the <em>Federal Register</em>, require agencies to train managers within one year of their appointment to a supervisory position on mentoring and employee development, conducting performance appraisals and dealing with poor performers. The regulations also call on agencies to set up a management succession program that grooms employees to replace current managers, and to track at least annually their progress toward closing workforce talent gaps.
Digital Government
2% Pay Raise to Senate
The House on Thursday passed an omnibus spending package that includes a 2 percent pay raise for civilian federal employees. Rejecting President Obama's recommendation to freeze locality pay at 2009 rates, the House allocated 1.5 percent of the overall 2.0 percent raise to base pay and 0.5 percent to locality pay. The spending package now moves to the Senate, which will consider the bill over the weekend.
People
Sebelius outlines open government projects
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius seeks to make government more open by sponsoring a YouTube video contest and a Web site for CDC employees.
Cybersecurity
TWIC card reader tests need best practices, GAO says
GAO gave TSA a mixed review in its latest evaluation of the transportation worker ID card program.
Digital Government
Pulling an about-Facebook on privacy
By requiring that each of its 350 million users to set their own privacy settings -- and making the process easy to understand -- Facebook is trying to part of the solution.
Digital Government
Senator presses administration for improvements in stimulus data
The chairman of the Budget Committee's Task Force on Government Performance, pressed the Obama administration's top technology officials Thursday to ensure there will not be a repeat of the problems with the data posted during the first round of reporting on federal economic stimulus spending.
Digital Government
Lawmakers want to bar sites from posting sensitive government docs
Wired: Threat Level
Digital Government