People
Penny-pinching strategies sprout from collaboration
The acquisition community is percolating with ideas for reducing costs, writes GSA's Mary Davie.
Cybersecurity
Wronged travelers to get new system for filing complaints
The Homeland Security Department has agreed to replace its IT support system for the Traveler Redress Inquiry Program to fix longstanding problems, a new report states.
Modernization
5 steps to making the cloud a reality
Former OMB official Mark Forman asks how much creative destruction agencies are willing to embrace.
Modernization
Web-based health insurance portals get Senate committee nod
The health reform bill approved by the Senate Finance Committee would establish Web-based health insurance portals to be used by millions of consumers.
Ideas
Millions More for Cargo Screening
The Homeland Security Department will spend $88 million in Recovery Act funds on scanning technology that will be used to inspect commercial goods crossing U.S. borders.
Cybersecurity
DHS would get more IT dollars under unified funding measure
A Senate-House committee wants to give the Homeland Security Department more money for several large information technology programs in fiscal 2010.
People
Get a Life!: Advice on making that job change
Taking advantage of your current job can help in search for a new government position, writes blogger Judy Welles
Acquisition
Administration clamps down on nonperforming contractors
The Obama administration has some new proposals designed to help agencies get hold of what they're paying to outside contractors, and help ensure that poor performers and passive performers don't get what they don't deserve.
Digital Government
Is phishing on the decline, or just moving to a new phishing hole?
Government Computer News
Modernization
Industry group meets to consider upgrading VA patient record system
Part of the agenda includes possibility of making the aging but popular electronic health record system for veterans and their families a platform for a national network.
Digital Government
Data starts flowing in from recipients of Recovery Act funds
About 112,000 reports on stimulus spending have been submitted to the government.
Digital Government
Petzel for Top Doc at VA
By default, it sure looks like <a href=http://www.visn23.va.gov/Leadership/Network_Director.asp>Dr. Robert (Randy) Petzel</a>, director of the Veterans Affairs Department's Midwest Health Care Network, has all but landed the job as VA's new undersecretary for health.
Ideas
House Kisses Mainframe Goodbye
While our focus at Nextgov is mainly on information technology in the executive branch, I'd like to take a moment to mark the end of an era in the legislative branch's IT saga. On Friday, the House of Representatives <a href="http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/100909-congress-mainframes.html">decommissioned its last mainframe</a>, which had been in place at the Ford Office Building since 1997.
Digital Government
Top 50 In-Demand Jobs
The Labor Department has released a <a href="http://www.careervoyages.gov/top50occupations-popup.cfm?pagenumber=1&sortby=top50factor">list of the top 50 in-demand occupations</a>, and it's no surprise that several IT-specific fields made the list. The list includes the projected need for employees in each of the 50 categories from 2006 to 2016.
Modernization