People
FCW Insider: Are feds more cost-effective than contractors?
A recent remark by Obama triggered a lengthy debate among readers about the relative value of in-house and contract staffers.
Digital Government
Administration helps with estimating jobs created
The White House released a guide to help agencies measure the jobs created by the economic stimulus law.
Cybersecurity
Deloitte says acquisition will expand an already fast-growing practice
BearingPoint purchase will add business in cybersecurity and systems designed to increase the transparency of financial markets, officials say
Digital Government
Opposition to Obama's call to cancel navigational system growing
Congress and geospatial specialists say the administration's proposal to kill the decades-old Loran system would remove a needed backup system for GPS.
People
Get a Life: To blog or not?
Government blogs have grown like Twitter, writes blogger Judy Welles. How useful are they?
Ideas
Swine Flu Social Media Stats
Bev Godwin, director of online resources at the White House, discussed last week how the Obama administration is using social networking to open government and provide information on a number of issues at a <em>Government Executive</em> Leadership Breakfast Series panel. She presented data from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention's Web site that shows how the public accessed information on the swine flu as of May 3.
Ideas
Tar Heels Visit White House
Permit me a shout out to my alma mater (and Nextgov senior reporter Jill Aitoro's as well), the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The NCAA men's national basketball champs visited the White House on Monday to meet President Obama, who <a href="http://techinsider.nextgov.com/2009/03/obama_likes_unc_as_hoops_champ.php?oref=search">picked</a> the Tar Heels in his bracket to win the championship.
Digital Government
Hot GPS Meeting This Week
Former Secretary of Defense James Schlesinger will chair a <a href=http://edocket.access.gpo.gov/2009/pdf/E9-9880.pdf>meeting</a> of the National Space Based Positioning, Navigation and Timing Advisory Committee Advisory Board at the Chevy Chase Pavilion Hotel in Washington on May 14 and 15. I have a feeling it will be a hot one.
Cybersecurity
Audit: CBP still has problems with IT controls
The Customs and Border Protection agency continues to be weak in IT security, audit states.
People
White House to change program assessments
The Obama administration wants analyses of programs instead of merely grading them as successful or unsuccessful.
People