Digital Government
Cass Sunstein remembers a special date
The administrator of the White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs shared a special personal memory in his keynote speech at the Brookings Institution.
Digital Government
Bad timing for feds nearing retirement
With the leaders of the president’s debt reduction panel calling for a three-year freeze on federal civilian pay, and with budget hawks about to take control of the House, chances are probably good that President Obama’s proposed two-year civilian pay freeze will get through Congress and make its way back to his desk.
People
E-rulemaking efforts expanding, OMB official says
E-rulemaking is helping to bring a diversity of views to the regulatory process, according to OMB official Cass Sunstein.
Digital Government
Feds could see pay freeze
Administration officials hope for $2 billion in savings for fiscal 2011 and more in the coming years.
Digital Government
Never a dull moment
Well, it looks like feds are being asked by the White House to share the pain of the private sector with a two-year pay freeze.
People
Open government beats FOIA for information access
People are being encouraged to bypass the lengthy legal process to request government data and go directly to agency open government offices, according to White House Deputy CTO Beth Noveck.
Modernization
OMB to push for big changes in IT management
The federal government is doing a major rehab on how it oversees and manages the $70 billion in annual IT spending.
People
Data.gov sets up open data communities page
White House officials have added a community participation feature to the Data.gov site.
Digital Government
Privacy czar coming soon
The Obama administration is about to appoint a privacy czar, and other measures are also in the offing to protect people online.
Digital Government
White House creates new policy for controlled unclassified information
A new policy will reduce the confusion caused by multiple categories of protected but unclassified information, according to transparency advocates.
Acquisition
IT innovation might be at risk under new Congress, former Rep. Davis warns
Former Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.) predicts that the new House GOP majority will be zealous in scrutinizing agency IT innovations for possible cuts.
Digital Government
White House wants comments on nanotechnology plan
The draft strategic plan for the National Nanotechnology Initiative lays out a framework for research and development.
Digital Government
Feds paid at least $1B to dead people, Coburn says
Sen. Tom Coburn said today more than $1 billion in federal payments were made to dead people from 1999 to 2009.
People
OMB will use dashboard to rate agencies' customer service
A new report examines agencies' progress in improving their customer service scores and says an OMB dashboard on those results is coming soon.
Digital Government
White House pushes more telework paid leave
The White House issued a statement reiterating the president's strong support for more telework as a means to make the federal government more productive and also to attract some of today's most desirable workers to federal agencies.
Acquisition
Focus on error-prone contractors to find improper payments, HHS IG says
Medicare could do better at identifying improper payments by looking to providers who are most likely to make errors, according to the Health and Human Services inspector general.
Digital Government
Agencies ready for real-time FISMA reporting tool, federal CIO reports
The CyberScope compliance tool, scheduled to go live Nov. 15, will replace annual paper reports on FISMA compliance with automated feeds of systems status.
Digital Government
And then there’s that business about Social Security …
Well, it’s official now—for the second year in a row, Social Security and Supplemental Security Income beneficiaries won’t be getting a cost-of-living adjustment.
Digital Government
Have feds met environmental milestones?
The federal community had a set of tough sustainability milestones to meet this year.
Modernization