Modernization
VA could repeat mistakes in IT program, IG says
The VA's program to develop a financial and logistics system has the same problems as a previous effort, according to a new report from the department's inspector general's office.
Cybersecurity
OPM cuts security-clearance processing time
The investigation period has been decreased from a year to just under 40 days, according to testimony given by OPM Director John Berry before a Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs subcommittee. But some still say more can be done.
People
Cureton brings social media expertise to new NASA role
NASA selects Linda Cureton to be new CIO after nearly year-long search.
Digital Government
Immigration service revamps Web site to offer more interactive tools
Portal provides status updates for foreigners applying for citizenship and immigration services.
Digital Government
Acquisition gives Dell entre into more profitable federal IT services market
Perot Systems' growing electronic health records business should offset shrinking margins in the personal computer industry.
Digital Government
U.S. lags the world's top adopters of electronic health records systems
Report urges the government to adopt Scandinavian policies to increase use of the systems, but acknowledges the task here will be greater.
Modernization
Citizenship agency launches interactive Web site
U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services has launched a revamped Web site that lets users track their applications and petitions online. The new USCIS.gov site also makes national trend and raw data available.
Ideas
Obama Debuts Innovation Agenda
President Obama, long referred to as the "tech president," has had no formal innovation agenda to back up the title - until now. During a visit to New York's Hudson Valley Community College on Monday, Obama laid out a strategy for creating new jobs, businesses and industries through tapping the nation's innovative potential.
Digital Government
Hospital Exec Tapped for VA Health Job?
Well-informed folks have told me that <a href=http://www.ssmhc.com/internet/home/ssmcorp.nsf/46a13372d66f8fe8862569f50053bbaa/777fc0898ff3324a862573cd007b92f4?OpenDocument>William Schoenhard</a>, who until this August served as executive vice president and chief operating officer of St. Louis-based SSN Health Care has the inside track as the new head of the Veterans Health Administration.
Digital Government
OPM Kicks Off Annual Charity Drive
The Office of Personnel Management has kicked off the 2009 Combined Federal Campaign, the world's largest workplace giving campaign. OPM Director John Berry on Friday sent a <a href="http://www.chcoc.gov/Transmittals/TransmittalDetails.aspx?TransmittalId=2505">letter</a> to the Chief Human Capital Officers Council, stressing the importance of supporting the CFC as a means to show the American people who federal workers really are. "For over three decades, federal workers have been denigrated and maligned," Berry wrote. "These attacks have hurt recruitment, they've hurt retention, and ultimately, they impair our ability to serve the American people."
Acquisition