TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
02/26/10 02:32 pm ET
IT professionals holding an active federal security clearance maintained a compensatory advantage over their not-cleared counterparts. Some security-cleared IT professionals earn as much as 12 percent more in salary, according to a survey by ClearanceJobs.com.>>
02/25/10 01:20 pm ET
The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday announced that it has begun to distribute the 2010 Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey. The survey will be distributed governmentwide through mid-March, and OPM will invite more than half a million federal workers to participate.>>
02/25/10 12:58 pm ET
Navy Department Chief Information Officer Robert Carey recently wrote a blog post highlighting his top 10 priorities for the department in 2010, and it's no surprise that workforce issues are front and center.>>
02/24/10 03:26 pm ET
A new report by the Pew Research Center provides new insights into the views and personalities of the 18-to-29-year-old Millennial generation, particularly when it comes to technology. >>
02/24/10 11:19 am ET
The Office of Personnel Management is building a new Web-based recruiting resource to assist managers, employees and human resources professionals in the planning and implementation of recruiting strategies and promote interagency sharing and learning through online forums. >>
02/23/10 02:21 pm ET
If you're a federal IT employee working under the Defense Department's National Security Personnel System, you may be transitioning back to the General Schedule pay system much earlier than expected. >>
02/23/10 02:20 pm ET
Several major IT projects at the Veterans Affairs Department are being hampered by a shortage of experienced federal IT project managers, Federal Computer Week reports. >>
02/22/10 01:35 pm ET
Sharyn Leaver of Forrester Research has an interesting blog post at CIO.com about how baby boomers and Generation Xers are steering the younger Millennial generation away from careers in information technology, largely because trends toward outsourcing and cost-cutting are draining the field of its career opportunities. >>
02/19/10 01:04 pm ET
Federal managers have long expressed concern over how the Generation Y workforce would shake up the federal government with their short attention spans, high expectations and tech-savvy ways of communicating. Dice.com highlights some of the commonly held assumptions about Generation Y's expectations in the workplace, as well as how IT leaders have responded to those expectations.>>
02/18/10 03:54 pm ET
A new report by CDW-G suggests that there may be some valuable lessons for federal IT leaders in the aftermath of last week's snowstorms that shut down federal agencies in the Washington, D.C., area for more than four days. The report, "Seven Habits of Highly Resilient Organizations," provides activities that federal IT executives should undertake to ensure that interruption to agency operations during weather disruptions or other emergencies is minimal.>>
02/18/10 10:24 am ET
The Defense Department is creating a new manual to help federal agencies attract the next generation of technology workers, FederalNewsRadio.com reports. >>
02/16/10 01:28 pm ET
Commission and now the new director of government affairs for (ISC)2, said he has been working with (ISC)2, the Government Advisory Board and the Information Systems Security Association for more than two years on an initiative that aims to bring more veterans into federal information security jobs. "They [veterans] are particularly adept, already trained and have security clearances," he said. "That would be a golden opportunity to take advantage of.">>
02/16/10 10:32 am ET
The Office of Personnel Management has launched an effort to enhance the oversight of recruitment, relocation and retention (3R) bonuses, largely due to concerns about the continued growth of such payments given recent labor market conditions.>>
02/11/10 12:13 pm ET
The record blizzard that has shut down federal agencies in Washington for four consecutive days has drawn a flurry of articles on how the government must significantly boost the number of federal employees who telework. >>
02/10/10 11:48 am ET
A disconnect exists between information technology managers and the human resources professionals who assist them when it comes to increasing IT workers' motivation, according to the February issue of the Dice Report.>>
02/09/10 11:50 am ET
Government information technology leaders will need to embrace new ideas and approaches in order to address a wide range of technical and management challenges, including increasing transparency and boosting cross-agency collaboration, according to a new survey by InformationWeek. >>
02/08/10 12:40 pm ET
The Obama administration's fiscal 2011 budget proposal laid out several priorities for the federal IT workforce, including hiring reform, boosting recruitment and retention, replacing retiring workers and implementing a governmentwide collaboration platform. >>
02/05/10 12:01 pm ET
The Office of Personnel Management on Friday released a list of 45 health plans in the Federal Employee Health Benefits Program that have made a commitment to health information technology through offering Internet-based personal health records and providing online tools for accessing health care quality, and price and cost information. >>
02/05/10 12:13 pm ET
The Office of Personnel Management on Thursday launched its new open government Web site. The new site is in response to President Obama's open government directive, which was issued on Dec. 8 and instructs agencies how to make the federal government more open, how to bring citizens into the policy-making process and how to collaborate with other government employees, the public and private industry. The directive requires agencies to create within 60 days an open government Web site and publish within 120 days an open government plan that describes how it will improve transparency and boost public participation. >>
02/05/10 11:01 am ET
Federal agencies in the Washington, D.C. area will close four hours early on Friday due to a major snowstorm. Alyssa Rosenberg writes at Government Executive that the latest snowstorm has drawn attention to the administration's efforts to increase telework at federal agencies. >>
02/04/10 11:28 am ET
The House on Thursday passed a bill that would require the White House to submit a report to Congress on the current and future needs of the federal cybersecurity workforce.>>
02/03/10 11:51 am ET
An aging federal workforce combined with rapid technological change have long been considered as challenges to future government performance. The fiscal 2011 budget proposal unveiled by the White House on Monday again poses such issues as pending challenges for government, but it also highlights the potential opportunities they may bring. >>
02/02/10 11:36 am ET
The fiscal 2011 budget proposal unveiled by the White House on Monday identifies several high-priority goals for the Office of Personnel Management over the next two years. >>
02/01/10 12:33 pm ET
The federal The Chief Information Officers Council plans to conduct a governmentwide IT workforce survey in 2010 to help enable agency managers to identify future workforce needs, according to the budget documents released on Monday.>>
02/01/10 11:41 am ET
President Obama proposed a 1.4 percent pay increase for military members and federal civilian employees in fiscal 2011, according to budget documents released on Monday. The 1.4 percent figure marks the lowest recommendation in nearly 40 years. But the figure is in line with...>>
