Modernization
Obama orders environmental measures for agencies
Federal data centers must be run in energy-efficient ways under a new executive order.
Acquisition
Senate tries to put competition rules on earmark spending
Senate legislation would apply some of the rules for competition to spending under earmarks, but only for a single bill.
Ideas
Intellipedia on the Block?
Colleague Marc Armbinder <a href="http://politics.theatlantic.com/2009/10/shutdown_of_intelligence_community_e-mail_network_raises_concerns.php">posted</a> yesterday an item on his Atlantic Politics blog that the intelligence community is pulling the plug on <a href="https://www.ugov.gov/">uGov</a>, "one of its earliest efforts at cross-agency collaboration," Armbinder wrote.
Digital Government
Panel recommends improvements to E-Verify
A panel of experts recommends improving the E-Verify electronic employment verification system to reduce false reports and to use it in immigration reform efforts.
Modernization
NTIA awards grants for national broadband map
The National Telecommunications and Information Administration is getting started on the $350 million broadband mapping project funded by the economic stimulus law.
Digital Government
States urged to create data catalogs
State and local governments should ramp up efforts to become more transparent, organization contends.
Digital Government
GSA, DISA want advice on buying commercial satellite services
GSA and DISA are seeking input from industry for a joint acquisition program that they plan to establish to meet civilian and defense agencies' needs for satellite services.
Digital Government
U.S. behind foreign competitors in manufacturing green technologies
Specialists call for the government to invest in and provide tax incentives to American companies to reverse a $9 billion trade deficit and create jobs.
Digital Government
Critics: National Archives lax in records management enforcement
Some document specialists and open government advocates say agencies' challenges with storing and retrieving e-records are due to a lack of policing, not an absence of rules.
Digital Government
Shuttering of intel e-mail draws concern for other collaboration tools
Intelligence office assures users it will replace the system with a more secure one, and other social networking tools will continue to operate.
Digital Government
131,000 Homeless Vets
That's the <a href=http://www1.va.gov/opa/pressrel/pressrelease.cfm?id=1795>stark and depressing news</a> the Veterans Affairs Department released on Tuesday, while VA said the goods news is that the number is down 15 percent from last year.
Digital Government