OMB provides further sequestration guidance
The Office of Management and Budget issued further guidance to federal departments and agencies on Thursday on implementing sequestration cuts. In a memo written by federal controller Danny Werfel, OMB...
View ArticleFedPod: Sequestration guidance and Cureton’s next move
The Office of Management and Budget offers sequestration guidance and former NASA CIO Linda Cureton announces her next move.
View Article8 highlights of the 2014 federal budget
President Barack Obama officially released Wednesday the 2014 fiscal year federal budget that includes a 2 percent bump in information technology spending across the government. In Obama’s proposal, IT...
View Article#2014Budget: 10 tweets from @stevenvDC
U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel took to Twitter on Wednesday afternoon to explain the federal government information technology budget request to his followers. Writing from @stevenvdc,...
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By the numbers: the federal IT budget
U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel Budgets feature numbers. Lots of them, especially when it comes to the federal government’s 2014 fiscal year budget President Barack Obama released Wednesday. To help make...
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News and notes: ACT-IAC Small Business Conference
Office of Federal Procurement Policy Administrator Joseph Jordan (Photo: David Stegon/FedScoop) FedScoop’s Kathryn Sadasivan co-wrote this article. The White House Small Business Procurement Group is...
View ArticleFedWire: Happy Tax Day
FedScoop’s afternoon roundup of news and notes from the federal IT community. Happy Tax Day! OK, so maybe a Not-So-Happy Tax Day as no one enjoys sending in their federal income tax unless, of course,...
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FedWire: Boston
FedWire is FedScoop’s afternoon roundup of news and notes from the federal IT community. Send your links and videos to tips@fedscoop.com. Obama addresses the Boston attacks: Links: That medal the DOD...
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VanRoekel: ‘Now is the time to spend on IT’
U.S. CIO Steven VanRoekel (Photo: David Stegon/FedScoop) The federal information technology budget has remained effectively flat the past four years while government spending continues to be cut in...
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The future of DHS on display with Boston bombings
Photo: FedScoop/David Stegon With the bombings at the Boston Marathon, the public got a first-hand view this week of the new ways the Department of Homeland Security is using data and analytics to...
View ArticleSylvia Mathews Burwell confirmed as OMB head
In a sweeping 96-0 vote Wednesday, the Senate confirmed President Barack Obama’s nomination for director of the Office of Management and Budget, Sylvia Mathews Burwell. Burwell has prior experience in...
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Federal innovation, a declining enterprise?
If you are a federal employee, you already know government innovation is on the decline — unless you work at the Office of Management and Budget, that is. The “Best Places to Work in the Federal...
View ArticleBoosting federal performance with HR process overhaul
Fiscal austerity seems negative at first glance, but it may be pushing agencies to develop strategies to increase performance and productivity. The Office of Personnel Management, the Chief Human...
View ArticleGSA pilot program revolutionizes the personal office
Technological advancements have already changed the way work is done; the General Services Administration is now changing the where. In response to the Office of Management and Budget’s March 2013...
View ArticleFedScoop Guide: White House open data policy
In a landmark of the open data movement, President Barack Obama issued Thursday an executive order calling for agencies to make federal information open and machine-readable, creating a new default for...
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What SES reform could mean for interagency collaboration
Image: IBM’s Center for the Business of Government Many senior government officials have called for a whole-of-community approach to address sequestration and other looming issues, but do government...
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Lawmakers: What’s still missing in data center consolidation
Rep. John Mica, chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Subcommittee on Government Operations (File photo: Oversight and Government Reform Committee Flickr) It is hard to tell whether...
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DATA Act discussion draft emerges
U.S. Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel (File photo: David Stegon/FedScoop) Close to a week after the White House unveiled its open data policy, a congressman has released a new discussion...
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Open data policy to fuel government API growth
Gray Brooks, senior API strategist for the General Services Administration’s Digital Innovation Center (Photo: David Stegon/FedScoop) Thursday marks the deadline for federal agencies to have completed...
View ArticleWhite House: Project Open Data sees early results
Developers are already heading to Project Open Data, the White House’s public repository hosted on GitHub intended to foster collaboration and promote the continued improvement of the recently released...
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