Modernization

Agencies get creative to recruit acquisition workforce

Administration officials say new ideas are being tried to expand the acquisition workforce.

Cybersecurity

Agencies told to target money for tech projects

Agencies should design their science and technology spending plans for fiscal 2011 around priorities reflected in the economic stimulus law and the fiscal 2010 budget, administration officials say.

Ideas

GSA Issues RFQ for Cloud Services

A <a href="https://www.fbo.gov/index?s=opportunity&mode=form&id=84317cbecb74c1f08471a130fc61933e&tab=core&_cview=0&cck=1&au=&ck=">special notice</a> posted by the General Services Administration on FedBizOps contains the first set of requirements for vendors interested in offering cloud computing services through GSA's <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090715_3532.php?oref=search">online cloud storefront</a>.

Digital Government

Google, Microsoft executives criticize Obama's e-health records plan

Officials want White House to give patients access to their medical records and to focus on managing health data, not on the specifics of the electronic health record.

Modernization

GSA lays groundwork for online cloud computing store

Notice outlines the first set of requirements for vendors interested in offering software as a service.

Digital Government

Defense hands over commercial satellite procurement to GSA

Consolidating purchases worth $5 billion during 10 years could save up to 15 percent in satellite communications costs, according to government officials.

Digital Government

Another Stolen Laptop

Laptops containing personnel information from departments like <a href=http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20080301_1011.php>Veterans Affairs</a> and <a href=http://www.govexec.com/mailbagDetails.cfm?aid=34906>Education</a> keep going on unauthorized walks. Now it's the National Guard Bureau's turn, which alerted soldiers on Wednesday of a stolen laptop.