Digital Government

GSA to announce Alliant awardees

General Services Administration officials are expected to name the companies that will have places on the $50 billion IT contract.

Acquisition

GSA awards three BPAs to shore up support

The General Services Administration is preparing for much work from the $787 billion in stimulus spending by asking industry for backup.

Ideas

Online Town Hall the First Step

For those of you who missed <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090325_2084.php">this</a>, President Obama held his first online town hall meeting today and it was broadcast live on whitehouse.gov. According to the <a href=http://www.whitehouse.gov/openforquestions/>White House</a>, almost 93,000 people submitted more than 104,000 questions, which the public voted on.

Digital Government

2009 Fed 100 Gala slide show

The 20th anniversary of the Federal 100 Gala took place March 25.

Cybersecurity

Demand may fall for visas

Applications are due April 1 for the popular H-1B visas for foreign skilled workers who often work in information technology, but demand may be reduced this year because of the economy.

People

Welles: Agencies will recover too

Federal employees can expect more work and visibility as the economic recovery efforts move ahead.

Cybersecurity

DNI: Improvement needed tracking cyberattacks

Dennis Blair, the Director of National Intelligence, said today intelligence agencies are working to improve their ability to accurately and quickly attribute the sources of cyber attacks.

Modernization

VA will use existing technology for new GI bill benefits

An automated system to process veterans’ education benefits won’t become operational until late 2010, VA officials said.

Cybersecurity

Lawmakers get update on cybersecurity review

After being briefed about the Obama administration's 60-day cybersecurity review, Rep. James Langevin (D-R.I.)said he expects that the Obama administration will coordinate its new cybersecurity strategy at the White House.

Digital Government

NIST gets funding increase

InformationWeek

Digital Government

Document system to support Obama's transparency initiative, GPO says

The agency launched the new network in February to make federal digital records available, even if document formats like Microsoft Word change.