Acquisition
GSA awards BPAs for support services
The General Services Administration is preparing for a massive flood of orders from agencies for help in spending money from the economic stimulus law.
Modernization
Networx on the brink of transforming federal telecom
With the Networx deadline looming, Verizon Federal's Susan Zeleniak offers her views on how the contract is progressing and its ability to transform government operations.
Cybersecurity
Public to get peek inside DISA, NSA
A technology-focused event will highlight partnerships between those agencies.
Digital Government
Defense profits from tech advances, falling telecom prices
DISA cuts cost for a faster network in the Pacific by more than a third.
Digital Government
Obama CIO goes on leave after scandal at former office
Vivek Kundra has not been implicated, but will remain on leave until more is known about his former colleagues' alleged schemes to defraud the D.C. government.
Ideas
What Does Transparency Look Like?
Obama has made <a href="http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20090122_6430.php">transparency</a> a "touchstone" (his word) of his administration and promises to apply it to tracking stimulus spending. But more and more people are asking questions like, "Exactly what is it?" And, "How do you define it?"
Digital Government
Pinnipeds, Tattoo Removal and Neurofeedback
That's just some of the items funded by <a href=http://www.taxpayer.net/resources.php?category=&type=Project&proj_id=1961&action=Headlines%20By%20TCS>more than 8,000 earmarks</a> worth just short of $8 billion in the <a href=http://www.rules.house.gov/111/LegText/111_omni2009_2.htm>2009 Omnibus Appropriations Bill</a>, which <a href=http://www.boston.com/news/nation/washington/articles/2009/03/12/obama_signs_earmark_laden_spending_bill/>President Obama signed</a> on Wednesday.
Modernization
Officials back public/private partnerships
Government and industry officials today said ongoing partnerships between the public and private sectors are key to information sharing between them.
Modernization
DHS plans enhanced interoperability standard
DHS is preparing to release this summer an enhanced version of its standard for bridging disparate radio systems, an official said at the GovSec conference today.
People
Transcript of Vivek Kundra's 2009 FOSE address
Here is the transcript of the remarks delivered March 12 by federal CIO Vivek Kundra to attendees at the FOSE 2009 IT expo in Washington.
Ideas