TSA has decided they are going to allow special procedures at airports for soldiers and families of soldiers. Normally, they would have to wait outside of security like everyone else, but TSA has decided they should be able to have special “meet and greet” passes. They are going to be able to get a pass [...]

This past September, the Office of Management and Budget asked federal employees to come up with different ideas how to save money or become more efficient. OMB was overwhelmed with the number of ideas and responses they received. With 38,000 different ideas they decided to narrow it down to the top 4 ideas and then [...]

This week the Federal Aviation Administration announced plans for a multi billion-dollar project to modernize air traffic control and flight time called NextGen. This program has goals of saving flight time and over a billion gallons of fuel every year. According to an article from the New York Times, the NextGen system will rely on [...]

We sat down with Martha Dorris, the Deputy Associate Administrator in the U.S. General Services Administration on Friday, November 6th, 2009. We had to opportunity to talk about the shift to cloud computing and some of the top IT trends for 2010. We also got to know what social media/web 2.0 tools she is most [...]

In recognition of the increasingly likelihood of a CBRN (Chemical, Biological, Radiological and Nuclear) attack against the US, the White House released yesterday its National Strategy for Countering Biological Threats. The new strategy highlights the need for partnerships across sectors in the US and with the international community. The strategy seeks to promote the safe [...]

Steven Cooper has made a return to the public sector. He has returned as the CIO of the Federal Aviation Administration’s Air Traffic Organization. He has made this move from Strativest, a consulting firm. He was the former CIO of the Homeland Security Department. In fact, he was the first CIO for the department. He [...]

Today, DHS Secretary Janet Napolitano presided over the launch of Virtual USA, an information sharing initiative for first responders. The initiative was created with the collaboration of local, state and federal organizations and will aid communications between first responders across all levels of government. During the launch, Secretary Napolitano said “Our first responders need interoperable [...]

On Tuesday morning, at 11:00 a.m. eastern time, Vivek Kundra, federal CIO, and Aneesh Chopra, federal CTO, held a live web cast to announce the arrival of the new Open Government Directive.  The purpose of this directive is to create a government that is open and transparent and move from the traditionally “closed” government. What [...]

Early this week the Department of Energy confirmed an additional $100 billion will be awarded to advanced energy research projects.  This announcement comes just days before the much anticipated Copenhagen Summit. Many anticipate that diplomats attending will put pressure on the United States to up their clean energy efforts. Last week, Energy Secretary Steven Chu [...]