According to a report from the CGI Initiative for Collaborative Government, “People need to be able to understand what they are seeing,” in regards to the effects of the economic stimulus package, the first significant piece of legislation pushed forward during the Obama administration. The research program, led by the IT firm CGI and academic [...]

Federal IT spending is moving up to new levels in this new year. It is expected to grow from $73 billion in 2009 to $75.7 billion in 2010; that’s a 4% increase. A Federal IT research firm, Government Insights, has found that this increase in Federal IT spending is due to agencies investing money in [...]

  Former Vice President and noted environmentalist Al Gore has offered his support to the 12 Democrats of Senate Environment and Public Works, who are rallying to defeat Senate Energy and Natural Resources ranking member Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, to keep the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating greenhouse gas emissions. Gore told supporters in an e-mail [...]

Ferriero is the 10th Archivest of the United States, where he oversees the National Archives and Records Administration, a position he has held since November 2009.  Prior to his current role, Ferriero had worked with the New York Public Libraries (NYPL) since 2004.   During his time as the Andrew W. Mellon Director of the NYPL, he developed [...]

Fort is project lead for the Office of Management and Budgets MAX federal program, where she uses collaboration and IT to bolster the ability of 17,000 government employees to safely exchange information.  In the past, she worked for the National Science Foundation’s budget office, compiling analyses summarizing NSF’s performance and budget and financial data for NSF [...]

Eisen is Special Counsel to the President for Ethics and Government Reform, a position he has held since Barack Obama took office in January 2009.  Described as “Mr. No” by the Washington Post, the career D.C. attorney was first tasked with making Obama’s campaign promises concerning the role of lobbyist influence on the White House a [...]

Maryland wants to be the “silicon valley of cyber security.” Just yesterday, state officials, including Gov. Martin O’Malley, launched a movement to bring more cybersecurity to the state through jobs and research. And it makes perfect sense. Maryland is home to top universities like Johns Hopkins, several major military installations, the U.S. National Security Agency, [...]

Virginia Governor-elect Bob McDonnell has announced that Jim Duffey will be his nominee for Secretary of Technology.  Duffey, President and CEO of Duff Consulting, worked for 24 years at EDS Corp., where he held a variety of positions in the United States and Europe, including three years as corporate Vice President and public-sector general manager, [...]

On Thursday, January 21st, the AFCEA Bethesda is holding a chapter breakfast series on federal web 2.0. The event will focus on enterprise adoption and their 2010 outlook. Guest speakers include Andy Blumenthal, CTO of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives, Robert Carey, CIO of the Department of the U.S navy, Gary Galloway, [...]

The Food and Drug Administration is working on building a nationwide electronic system that will track the safety of drugs and medical devices. This data system will host anonymous patient data in order to protect patient privacy. However, the privacy could make the system less valuable according to some specialists. According to NextGov, former FDA [...]