Digital Government
Government breaks small-business goals with stimulus funds
As of Oct. 2, the government overall has awarded 26 percent of the economic stimulus law's funds to contracts for small businesses, an estimated $4 billion.
Digital Government
Army establishes new program office for technology modernization
Program Executive Office Integration will support warfighter technology modernization — and current and future acquisitions — under the restructuring of the Future Combat Systems program.
People
Get a Life!: The etiquette of flu prevention
CDC and OPM offer advise to federal employees and HR offices on how to slow the spread of H1Ni.
Digital Government
Congress once again not doing its most important job
In all but three of the last 30 years, Congress has failed to pass a budget to fund the federal government by the beginning of its new fiscal year. But, no surprise, Congress never fails to fund itself.
Digital Government
Army establishes new program office for technology modernization
Government Computer News
Modernization
Agencies to spend more on IT in 2010, but not on new projects
Recompeting existing contracts will drive the value of the largest federal technology contracts up 50 percent, with few new ideas being introduced.
Digital Government
DHS announces immigration detention reforms
Immigration and Customs Enforcement will centralize and review all detention contracts.
Ideas
What IT Means to Leaders
Just how much should leaders know about technology? Plenty, according to retired Marine Gen. Anthony Zinni, president of UCLA's Center for Middle East Development and author of "Leading the Charge: Lessons from the Battlefield to the Boardroom." Zinni, who gave one of the keynote presentations at Government Executive's Excellence in Government conference in Washington on Monday, said: "IT has changed the way we lead. ... If you don't grasp the technology and how to use it ... you will be left behind.
Digital Government
A Must Read: Inside MI5
This year marks the 100th anniversary of the United Kingdom's Security Service, MI5. To mark the occasion, a Manhattan-phone-book-sized (1,032 pages) authorized history of the secret agency was released on Monday and has drawn some rave reviews for its candor and historical insights from the British press.
Digital Government
DHS Plans Cyber Job Fair
The Homeland Security Department plans to hold a major job fair that will focus on staffing up its cybersecurity workforce, the agency's chief human capital officer told Wired Workplace on Monday. The news comes just days <a href="http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2009/10/new_cyber_hiring_authority_at_dhs.php">after DHS announced a new hiring flexibility</a> that authorizes it to hire up to 1,000 additional cyber experts.
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