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
Leaders commended for contributions to info security
The sixth annual 2009 Government Information Security Leadership Awards were given by (ISC)2, an association that certifies information security professionals.
Modernization
Only a small part of stimulus spending will be reported, coalition says
The Coalition for an Accountable Recovery said the amount of economic spending law being reported is a fraction of the total.
Digital Government
IRS wins some, loses a few in fight against identity theft and data loss
The IRS recorded more than 51,000 cases of taxpayer identity theft in 2008 and paid out $15 million in fraudulent refunds, and a GAO report finds that internal information security weaknesses constitute some of the most significant challenges faced by the agency.
Digital Government
Lawmaker urges Obama to appoint cybersecurity coordinator
President Barack Obama should quickly appoint a cybersecurity coordinator to ensure computer defense efforts are coordinated, a House member who oversees cybersecurity programs said today.
Acquisition