People
Speed mentoring: Advice in 15 minutes
Mentoring doesn't always require a lengthy time commitment. Sometimes feds can achieve a lot in just 15 minutes.
People
Bhagowalia to leave GSA for an island paradise
Senior federal IT leader Sanjeev "Sonny" Bhagowalia is leaving federal service to take a position in state government.
Digital Government
Design a logo, win a prize
Interior Department offers a $1,000 prize for a logo design.
People
IT reform push: Six months later
CIOs offer updates on IT reform progress, challenges and priorities as milestone nears.
Digital Government
TechStat: Getting into the weeds of IT management
Federal IT managers better get ready for a more intense discipline of program oversight.
Modernization
CIOs get to work on closing data centers
The Federal CIO Council has started a governmentwide data center consolidation task force as part of the Obama administration’s IT reform project.
Digital Government
Recharging the CIO
As the Obama administration looks for more from CIOs, experts discuss the authorities and skills CIOs must have to be successful.
People
GAO updates high-risk programs list
The Government Accountability Office today updated its list of high-risk government programs, removing some programs and adding a new one.
People
Awaiting IT reform details, CIO launches online dialogue as first step
The Obama administration said last December that it would strive to redefine the role of agency CIOs as part of its 25-point IT management reform plan. While there has been little detail so far about how exactly the administration intends to achieve this goal, it appears that some CIOs are moving ahead.
Modernization
Interior's CIO gets more power
The Interior Department is taking steps to transform its delivery of IT services and the agency’s CIO has been given new oversight responsibility to lead that effort.
Digital Government
USGS sets up Facebook 'ambassador' program
The U.S. Geological Survey is trying a new approach on Facebook to connect and coordinate expertise at the agency and with the public.
Modernization
Tech innovation outpaces government's desire to change
Google's dispute with Interior is just a symptom of a much larger problem: The government still resists change, writes Chris Bronk.
People
Agencies hiring more veterans, but progress is slow
Agencies are making progress in meeting the goals of an executive order issued by President Obama last November to encourage the hiring of vets into federal jobs.
Modernization
Does Google's lawsuit mean that cloud computing has hit the bigtime?
Cloud vendors are starting to fight each other in the legal arena for contract advantages. Is the technology still cutting-edge?
Digital Government
Google sues Interior over cloud RFQ
Google and a cloud partner have sued the government alleging that an Interior Department RFQ unfairly excludes Google.
Digital Government
Are you a healthy fed?
If you are like a lot of American workers, you spend a lot of time behind a desk. That means that for eight hours a day, your primary source of exercise may well be walking to the copier or coffee machine.
Digital Government
Earthquakes are something to tweet about
Tweets are far from being scientific information, but the U.S. Geological Survey is finding Twitter helpful in monitoring earthquakes in real time.
Digital Government
Agencies' big security weakness: Lack of money and people
The problem with government IT security is not so much a lack of adequate regulations but a lack of resources to ensure that agencies practice good security, says former Interior CIO Hord Tipton.
Cybersecurity
Interior catches flak for breach disclosure
Critics say the Interior Department was overly cautious when it disclosed the loss of an encrypted CD containing personally identifiable information of about 7,500 federal employees.
Digital Government
Interior to get new deputy CIO
Gross takes on a new role at the Interior Department, continuing the changes at the department, Matthew Weigelt writes.
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