TECHNOLOGY AND THE BUSINESS OF GOVERNMENT
09/30/10 05:28 pm ET
Federal employees who are responsible for administering the Freedom of Information Act say their offices are too short-staffed, underfunded and technologically inept to process requests as expeditiously as the White House wants, according to a survey conducted by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington. >>
09/29/10 04:21 pm ET
A federal attorney said he was fired two weeks after he began writing the blog FAA Lawyer Whistleblower out of frustration when attempts to alert Federal Aviation Administration officials about safety problems were rebuffed.>>
09/28/10 03:36 pm ET
For traveling federal employees, the question usually is how much can I spend on my hotel and what is there to do in the area. Well now there is an app that tries to provide answers.>>
09/27/10 04:19 pm ET
In something of an irony, the Transportation Department considered comments from an online dialogue promoted via text-messaging service Twitter to finalize a new rule that bans commercial truck and bus operators from texting while driving. The regulation, which was published in Monday's Federal Register, cites comments contributed by Cornell Law School's pilot initiative to crowdsource rulemaking, or tap the wisdom of the online masses to inform policy. >>
09/24/10 02:36 pm ET
For the Defense Department's Cyber Command, looking for qualified cybersecurity employees is the easy part. Finding them is turning out to be a difficult prospect.>>
09/23/10 05:48 pm ET
When Congress passes legislation, it rarely thinks about how much work is involved in putting a new policy into place. And that includes information technology work. >>
09/22/10 05:49 pm ET
The apps culture is here, according to the Pew Internet and American Life Project.>>
09/21/10 04:48 pm ET
Whatever the outcome of the White House's initiative to consolidate costly federal data centers, the transition presents a dilemma for contract employees. They stand to gain business by aggregating servers, and, then lose a substantial amount of maintenance and support work once systems are combined or outsourced. This is one finding in a new report by market research firm Input on the challenges facing the administration's effort to downsize server farms in five years. >>
09/20/10 06:44 pm ET
Agencies may find it difficult to attract information technology workers now, but could the government lose even those that it has convinced to join the workforce when the economy improves?>>
09/17/10 05:57 pm ET
It's election time, so that means it has to be Hatch Act time, too. At least two federal employees are entangled in the nuances of the law, which prohibits federal employees from running in partisan elections. The San Diego Union-Tribune reported on Friday that...>>
09/16/10 06:06 pm ET
The Partnership for Public Service handed out its top honor to federal employees on Wednesday, awarding eight individuals with its Samuel J. Heyman Service to America Medals.>>
09/15/10 06:37 pm ET
Government Executive reports the Army is looking to hire hundreds of entry-level and midcareer contracting specialists and insource more than 4,000 acquisition-related jobs during the next five years.>>
09/14/10 11:17 am ET
President Obama plans to send a memo to senior executives in government urging them to focus on the administration's Accountable Government Initiative, which aims to cut waste, reform contracting and close the information technology gap, among other goals. And IT is at the center...>>
09/13/10 07:00 pm ET
From the Cobbler's Children Have No Shoe File. Delawareonline reported on Monday that 25 percent of all health care workers in the state's seven acute-care hospitals did not receive a flu vaccinated in 2009. That's about 4,000 health care professionals. In one hospital, St. Francis in Wilmington, nearly 55 percent of workers said they didn't get a shot.>>
09/10/10 04:26 pm ET
Tweeting was not an option for witnesses, survivors or victims of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attack at the Pentagon. If those individuals were able to log on to Twitter and instantly communicate their whereabouts to their social networks, what would have happened? Families and first responders may have had the chance to say goodbye or save a life, maybe. >>
09/08/10 01:20 pm ET
Technology jobs continue to be in high demand, which has fueled an increase in higher salaries and signing bonuses, according to Dice.com, a website that posts technology and engineering jobs. But in its September jobs report, it notes another (surprising) demand from technology job seekers that the federal government may want to take note of: a request for more flexible work schedules, including telework. >>
09/07/10 07:08 pm ET
Over the weekend, Amity Shlaes, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, wrote in The Wall Street Journal about the differences between private and public sector workers. She sketches out the history of unions in the federal government and what she concludes as a rather obvious point: If we just had fewer government workers, we would spend less on paying them.>>
09/03/10 03:49 pm ET
Access to fast Internet speeds that make working from home and on-the-go easier seem to be on the rise nationwide, just in time for Labor Day. >>
09/02/10 02:54 pm ET
Last year's response to the pandemic H1N1 flu was mired by delays in manufacturing what was supposed to be the most powerful tool for preventing widespread fatalities: a vaccine. This year, one of the most powerful tools may just be your cell phone. >>
09/01/10 05:10 pm ET
Nextgov reported on Wednesday that NASA is launching a program to help those highly skilled - and highly paid - employees working on the soon-to-be-shuttered space shuttle program in Florida's "space coast" to find jobs, especially IT jobs. They may want to look just a bit of a ways south in Fort Pierce, Fla.>>
