On January 8th, President Obama announced the award of $2.3 billion in the Recovery Act Advanced Energy Manufacturing Tax Credits. This award was put into place in order to create more clean energy projects nationwide. This also was put into place to create thousands of green jobs – so, where are these jobs? In a [...]

The Department of Defense held a poll for its employees regarding which social media sites they use most frequently. The top three in order of favorites were Facebook, coming in at 84.6%, Email at 79.5%, and YouTube at 51.9%. Coming in next after the top three sites were LinkedIn, Twitter, and iGoogle. Another recent survey [...]

Lisa Jackson, the administrator to the Environmental Protection Agency, gave a list of what the 7 top priorities are in this New Year to her agency colleagues.  She has been in this position for a year and when she first began, she drew out the top 5 priorities. Among the top priorities were taking action [...]

President Barack Obama invited a who’s who of elite CEOs to the White House to discuss how the private sector has used new technologies to save money and increase ease and effectiveness when serving customers. Asked to attend were leaders from a wide variety of industries – from video game titan Electronic Arts, to PepsiCo, [...]

The Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuel Initiative (CAAFI), a Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) sponsored effort to develop environmentally-sound, sustainable-alternative jet fuels, has received “one of the most coveted and valued honors” by a leading aviation-industry publication. Air Transport World’s Joseph S. Murphy Industry Service Award is given to an individual or an organization that has performed [...]

As soon as there was word of the horrible natural disaster in Haiti, our government began making efforts to bring aid to the people of this country. The 7.0-magnitude earthquake that struck Haiti on Tuesday night affected 3 million people; this is one-third of Haiti’s entire population. While it is too early to give an [...]

Federal contractors working with the Navy can expect to see a tighter financial picture in the future, after remarks delivered by Secretary of the Navy Ray Mabus. At a Navy conference in Arlington, Va., Mabus told contracting and government officials:  “(The Navy is) going to demand more accountability from contractors on behalf of the taxpayers.” [...]

Defense Secretary Robert Gates met with top executives from major defense contracting firms to reiterate the importance of fulfilling contracts on time and on budget, while assuring the relationship between the federal government and defense contractors will continue to be mutually beneficial moving forward. In attendance were leaders from major companies Northrup Grumman, Lockheed Martin [...]

A recent technology breach by the Chinese government into U.S. systems has called attention to the issue of Internet freedom. The intrusion was into the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists, Google Inc., financial institutions, defense contractors, and several other technology companies in Silicon Valley. The U.S. government has been called to action by [...]

The Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has announced the first portion of its “Transparency Initiative,” an effort to make clear issues such as basic operations, the decision making process and the process by which drugs are judged and approved. The FDA’s effort coincides with a larger goal of overall transparency for federal government operations set [...]