Digital Government
CMS provides guidance to states on stimulus grants for health IT
Incentive payments would encourage providers to adopt electronic medical records.
Digital Government
Government outlines plan for contractor performance database
Contracting officials would be required to check the new Federal Awardee Performance and Integrity Information System before signing high-value deals.
Digital Government
Cyber Command eyeing new DISA headquarters for its base
Sources and internal Navy brief indicate the new command could displace the agency at Fort Meade, complicating an effort to convince DISA employees to move.
Digital Government
White House reverses its ban on access to visitor logs
But some open government groups call for real-time disclosure, saying the executive office's decision to post the records online after 90 to 120 days is too long to wait.
Ideas
VA Touts Results for Telework Day
Virginia Gov. Tim Kaine's office today promoted the results of the Commonwealth's <a href="http://www.teleworkexchange.com/teleworkdayreport/">Telework Day</a>, which took place on Aug. 3. According to Kaine's spokesperson Lisa Torphy, 95 percent of the more than 4,200 employees who took part in the event were Virginia-based employees, including more than 2,200 federal employees.
Ideas
O Gov Directive Making a Comeback
A White House transparency initiative announced the day after the Inauguration -- the details of which have been <a href="http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/Data-from-Public-Consultation-on-Open-Government/">delayed for months</a> -- is about to make a comeback, according to officials with the Office of Science and Technology Policy.
People
Get a Life!: Recession puts premium on good management
During tough financial times, good morale can translate into continued productivity, recent surveys have found.
Digital Government
IT Hiring to Surge by 2012
By fall of 2012, the federal government will hire nearly 273,000 new workers for mission-critical jobs, a large portion of which will be information technology specific, according to a new <a href="http://data.wherethejobsare.org/wtja/home">report</a> by the Partnership for Public Service. The latest "Where The Jobs Are" report, released Thursday, outlines governmentwide, mission-critical hiring needs through 2012 and is based on a survey of 35 federal agencies representing nearly 99 percent of the 1.9 million member federal workforce.
Digital Government
Oops, There Goes Yet Another Laptop
I think I could write a monthly feature on lost or stolen government laptops. The <a href=http://www.med.navy.mil/sites/pcola/Pages/default.aspx>Naval Hospital Pensacola</a> in Florida reported the latest stray on Tuesday.
Cybersecurity
Experts disagree on effect of E-Verify's expiration
The authorization for the E-Verify employment verification program expires three weeks after it is set to cover federal contractors.
Modernization
USPTO eyes unified communication system
The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office wants to learn about unified Internet Protocol communication systems that could cut its operating costs.
Cybersecurity
Top 5 stories at the FCW.com watercooler
FCW.com readers, on the whole, might be more civil than most people who post comments on mainstream Web sites but they are no less passionate.
People
5 proposed rules that could rock the acquisition community
The acquisition landscape has been changing in the past several years, and now lawmakers and regulators are working on writing stricter rules and setting new precedents.
People
Regulators propose database on contractors' past work
The system would contain specific information on the integrity and performance of contractors and federal grantees.
Cybersecurity