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

FBI Raids Kundra's Former DC Office

Ben Smith of Politico.com <a href="http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0309/FBI_raids_office_of_DC_CTO_Obama_appointee.html?showall">reports in his blog</a> tat the FBI has raided the Obama federal CIO's Vivek Kundra's old chief technology officer office in the District of Columbia.