Digital Government
Health care reform hinges on technology
An electronic marketplace would allow consumers to compare insurance plans.
Modernization
GAO finds gaps in HUD IT management
The U.S. Housing and Urban Development Department continues to fall short in managing its IT needs.
Modernization
Buyer beware: The hidden perils of cloud computing
Experts warn that cloud computing brings with it a loss of control and legal protection in a computing framework that still is maturing.
Modernization
Not dead yet
The Radicati Group foresees continued growth in e-mail accounts despite the rise in alternative tools for communication and collaboration, such as blogs and wikis.
Modernization
Come join the homeland security review
Starting today people can go online to participate in a wide-ranging review of the Homeland Security Department designed to help shape the department over the coming years.
Modernization
Web 2.0 on the rise
Market researcher comScore reports big growth in the use of social-networking tools.
Ideas
Updated: Recovery.gov Contract
The government is behind in posting the potential $18 million contract for the redesign of Recovery.gov because of the work involved to ensure the disabled can access it, said officials at the General Services Administration and the Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board.
Digital Government
VA Claim in Appeal? Wait 639 Days
That's what Daniel Bertoni, director of education, workforce, and income security at the Government Accountability Office, <a href=http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d09910t.pdf>told</a> the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee this week on the need to improve how the department processes a growing mountain of disability claims.
People
Kundra aids search for procurement leader
Kundra says the nominee for OFPP administrator must understand the government’s contracting challenges and recognize that technology procurements are unique.
Cybersecurity
New Coast Guard acquisition chief eyes changes
Rear Adm. Ronald Rábago wants to align the Acquisition Directorate's responsibilities with the Coast Guard's modernization efforts.
Cybersecurity
McNamara: Give info-sharing office more authority
Thomas McNamara said the Program Manager for the Information Sharing Environment should have budgetary authority and the ability to direct policy changes.
People
Passing the baton
Why, six months into his presidency, has Obama still not named anyone to fill the administrator’s position at the Office of Federal Procurement Policy?
People
DOD may ban Twitter, Facebook, other social media
The military is once again considering blocking social-media sites, for security reasons.
Ideas
Godwin's White House Tenure Ends
Bev Godwin, who helped bridge the digital divide between federal Luddites and Obama administration tech whizzes, is leaving her post at the White House's new media office.
Cybersecurity
E-Verify could add biometrics
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has begun laying the groundwork for adding a biometric — most likely a fingerprint — to the E-Verify federal employment verification system
Acquisition
Bill would end HUBZone primacy
HUBZone businesses have priority over companies owned by service-disabled veterans and those in the 8(a) program, but that might change.
People
Analyst: Acquisition workforce needs retooling
A unified acquisition employment series should include program management, contracting officers and an expanded version of a contracting officer's technical representative.
Digital Government
Time and Space
I've been an avid reader of Tim Wright's <a href="http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2009/07/five_social_networking_keys.php">special package of articles</a> on Examiner.com this week about generations in the workplace. Today, Wright <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-1872-Houston-Workforce-Performance-Examiner~y2009m7d30-Workforce-generations-time--space">notes</a> that the differences among the four generations in the workplace are getting a lot of attention, and all sorts of differences keep cropping up.
Modernization