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
Farewell to e-mail
Some government agencies are taking a step back from e-mail and evaluating other communication tools such as social networks, collaboration software and Web-based conferencing.
Modernization
Where in the world is the geospatial data?
Policy changes and new technologies can help agencies better manage geospatial data.
People
U.K. agency releases 20-page policy for Twitter
In the U.S. and abroad, agencies determine how to deal with YouTube, Twitter and fake agencies.
Cybersecurity
The great cybersecurity star search
A consortium of private and government organizations has launched a program of competitions and educational opportunities for young people to build the next-generation cybersecurity workforce.
People
The Army's Gary Winkler: Master of change
Winkler explains why change is a natural state — and an imperative — for the service’s information technology portfolio.
Acquisition
Acquisition reforms rush forward while top OFPP seat remains empty
The OFPP administrator, in theory, is an important person when reforming the procurement system. Nevertheless, Obama's making changes without one.
People