Robert Carey, the Department of the Navy Chief Information Officer, does a good job of keeping up his blog. Last week he wrote a blog post about “Top 10 in 2010.” He talked about the top ten most important IT activities the Navy is working.
Here are the activities the Navy is working on directly from [...]
After reports emerged of patient deaths and several dozens of injuries linked to malfunctions in the health IT (HIT) systems, the Food and Drug Administration is now considering regulating the new technology for the first time ever.
In a testimony prepared for a government hearing yesterday, Jeffrey Shuren, director of the FDA’s Center for Devices and [...]
After a failed attempt with the private sector, the FCC will ask congress to foot the bill for a wireless communications network for improvement of emergency responders. The plan would cost an estimated $18 billion over the next ten years.
The new state of the art network would allow emergency responders to share information across states, [...]
The Office of Personnel Management is planning on increasing the number of federal government employees it polls this year. In fact, the agency plans to survey 100,000 more federal government employees than it did in 2008.
The survey, which used to be the “Federal Human Capital Survey,” is now called the “Federal Employee Viewpoint Survey.” Many [...]
In a hearing held Tuesday addressing the Cyber Security Act of 2009, Sen. Olympia Snowe, R-Maine, was critical of the Obama administration for making the cybersecurity coordinator unable to testify before congress.
Referring to the newly created position of the cybersecurity coordinator, Snowe said: “He’s a member of the National Security Council and cannot testify. Given [...]
The Office of Personnel Management is creating an innovative online recruiting tool to help managers, employees and human-resources professionals with planning and implementing recruiting strategies and promoting interagency sharing and learning via online forums, NextGov reported yesterday.
OPM is collaborating with GovLoop, a social-networking site for government workers, on the still-unnamed resource that is set to launch [...]
Yesterday, we reported there are growing concerns that the open government directive may face some challenges. There are agencies that have not yet launched transparency pages, and there are concerns about agencies putting ideas into action.
However, it remains clear that the initiative is still moving forward. One way this is happening is through the spread [...]
Last Sunday, Lisa Jackson, the Environmental Protection Agency Administrator, revealed a Great Lakes Restoration Initiative.
The plan includes a detailed description of all of the biggest threats facing the area, as well as lays out the goals and actions for restoration.
According to an EPA press release, Lisa Jackson says, “We have an historic opportunity to restore [...]
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra will moderate the discussion on 2011 Budget Preview at the AFCEA Bethesda Budget Preview Breakfast. It will be Friday morning, February 26th from 6:30-9:30 AM at the Ritz-Carlton in Tyson’s Corner.
On February 1, 2010, President Barack Obama requested $79.4 billion in spending on information technology projects for fiscal 2011. Please join [...]
The Department of Defense (DoD) has re-launched the National Resource Directory Website, to improve the ease of use for the ill and wounded veterans who use the site.
“We worked closely with users of the National Resource Directory to find out how to make the information they need easier to find,” said Noel Koch, deputy under [...]
