Digital Government
GSA debuts service to shrink federal Web addresses
Go.USA.Gov application renames links to fit into brief Twitter or smart phone messages.
Digital Government
Critics fault Recovery Board's first posting of stimulus data
While praising the effort, critics say it might be difficult for the public to find details on recipients, where job opportunities are and the progress of the economic program.
Cybersecurity
DHS agencies don't sustain info security programs, IG says
The Homeland Security Department's agencies must improve execution of the department's information security policies on a year-round basis, procedures and practices, DHS' inspector general said.
Digital Government
DHS proposes standards for private sector disaster preparation
Industry fears the voluntary standards are too rigid and eventually could be made mandatory for companies looking to do business with the government.
Digital Government
The Information Dominance Corps
Navy meteorologists and oceanographers might not consider themselves cyber warriors, but they are going to be lumped into a new Navy Information Dominance Corps established by Adm. Gary Roughead, chief of naval operations, on Oct. 6.
Ideas
Whoops, Where Sweden's Web Sites?
We hear a lot about cyberattacks, but here's an "oops" moment that hurts:
Digital Government
Recruiting 11,000 IT Workers
The Partnership for Public Service is launching a new program designed to recruit, hire and retain entry-level information technology workers in the federal government. The program, called FedRecruit: IT Pilot Program, is designed to help agencies meet the need to fill what the <a href="http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2009/09/it_hiring_to_surge_by_2012.php">Partnership estimates will be about 11,000 technology job openings</a> during the next three years.
Acquisition
Bring back share in savings
It's time to revive the statutory encouragement for this innovative approach to services contracting, Steve Kelman writes.
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