Digital Government
Contractors Begin Early Shutdown Preparations
Agencies will be forced to shutter their doors on Oct. 1 if Congress fails to pass a spending bill to set agency funding for fiscal 2018.
Digital Government
If the Government Shuts Down, Some of Its Websites, Databases and IT Do Too
OMB’s 2013 guidance requires IT systems related to excepted activity, including national security, stay functional.
Acquisition
Border towers delayed by shutdown
Contracts for high-tech sensor system will wait until at least early 2014.
Digital Government
On Mars, it's as if the shutdown never happened
NASA kept its rover Curiosity on course during the shutdown. Plus: NOAA assesses impact on satellite programs.
People
Fed tweeters back in action
The end of the shutdown brings expressions of relief, 140 characters at a time.
People
Feds to get back pay after shutdown
Furloughed employees and those who stayed on the job without pay will be compensated.
People
How to come back
Managers returning to work after a furlough face several challenges to get back up and running.
People
Will returning feds head for the exits?
The shutdown and its furloughs might be the final straw for some federal employees, giving managers a potential morale challenge.
Digital Government
Shutdown hobbles advanced computer project
Google's quantum computer effort housed at NASA's Ames Research Center was another casualty of the government shutdown.
People
Feds face insurance bills
If the government shutdown is not lifted soon, federal employees will begin receiving bills for some insurance premiums.
Digital Government
World to US: You are destroying yourself!
As the world watches the government shutdown and the debt ceiling debate, America's reputation sinks.
Digital Government
Some inconvenient shutdown truths
Do the shutdown politics and Healthcare.gov coverage make your head spin? Alan Balutis offers a reality check.
People
What's so special about federal fellows?
A reader wonders if a recent article on the effects of the shutdown on federal fellowships means FCW is not concerned about the rest of the federal workforce.
People
Federal fellows take an unwanted break
The government shutdown has young innovators eager to get back to work.
Cybersecurity
H-1B visa holders could be snared by shutdown
Foreign tech workers who need to extend or modify an H-1B visa while the shutdown is in effect will find some needed agency services unavailable.
People
What the shutdown says to the tech workforce
The shutdown is but one of several factors sending a discouraging message to the federal workforce, and to talented students and professionals who could be potential new hires.
People
House passes bill to keep paychecks coming
White House threatens to veto measure that would pay essential employees during shutdown.
Digital Government
Geospatial conference postponed
U.S. Geospatial Intelligence Foundation announces that DOD's current travel restrictions make the GEOINT conference, planned to take place in Tampa, untenable.
People
VA furloughs 2,700 IT employees
As carrryover funding runs out, department succumbs to shutdown.
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