Digital Government
OPM Touts Info-Sharing Culture
Office of Personnel Management Director John Berry on Friday sent a <a href="http://www.chcoc.gov/Transmittals/TransmittalDetails.aspx?TransmittalId=2585">memo</a> to agency chief human capital officers, highlighting a new training effort that will focus on the importance of information-sharing and collaboration between federal agencies and state, local, tribal and private sector partners. In the near future, Berry said, the information-sharing program manager would present its "Culture of Sharing" training and incentive initiatives to the Chief Human Capital Officers Council.
Digital Government
Call for More Cyber Expertise
Sen. Joseph Lieberman, D-Conn., on Friday outlined five basic principles he hopes will be included in cybersecurity legislation he expects to introduce later this year with Sen. Susan Collins, R-Maine. One of those principles involves addressing challenges in hiring, retaining and training cybersecurity personnel in the federal government. For example, legislation should help develop a cybersecurity career path in the federal government and lay out new training programs to help retain cyber experts, he said.
Cybersecurity
Collins opposes White House cyber czar
Sen. Susan Collins (R-Maine) said she opposes putting a cybersecurity coordinator in the White House.
Digital Government
No, This is The Intel Budget
The United States spent $49.8 billion on the National Intelligence Program for fiscal 2009, according to a <a href=http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/20091030_release.pdf>press release</a> issued on Oct. 30 by Dennis Blair, director of National Intelligence.
Modernization
FEMA needs better IT systems to cut risk of double-dipping, auditors say
FEMA pays out billions in disaster aid without the means to guard against double-dipping, according to a new audit.
Acquisition
Federal cost-reimbursement contract overview is a mess, GAO says
It is hard to get a handle on federal cost-reimbursement contracts because of missing documentation and incomplete accounting, says a new GAO report
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