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 [...]

While most federal agencies launched their transparency pages on February 6th there are a number of agencies that did not. The administration has certainly taken big steps towards open government, but there is still quite a ways to go. According to a few panelists at the State of the Union for Technology event, President Obama’s [...]

With TV commercials airing during the Olympics and a $12.4 million ad campaign in English and Spanish, the Department of Veterans Affairs hopes to reach out to and recruit 105,000 new employees within the next two years, according to The Washington Post. According to VA Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould, the department plans to hire [...]

Open government is a major priority for the Obama White House, and top officials like Federal CIO Vivek Kundra and CTO Aneesh Chopra are vocal supporters of making agency budget and regulatory information publicly available online.  Below, we’ve chronicled some of the federal government’s open government success stories. OIRA Dashboard The Office of Information and [...]

The nation’s first federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra will be speaking at the Feb. 26 New Jersey Technology Council Conference to share his views on the current administration’s commitment to the technology community. Chopra, who was appointed to the position of CTO in last April, knows a great deal about technology. Prior to his current [...]

Secretary of Defense, Robert Gates announced yesterday that Letitia Long is going to serve as the next director of the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency. She is currently the deputy director of the Defense Intelligence Agency, but will take on her new role later this year. Long will be replacing Navy Vice Admiral Robert Murrett when she [...]

Health and Human Services Department Secretary, Kathleen Sebelius is aiming to improve Health IT drastically. So, How will the department go about improving Health IT initiatives? By pouring money into different grants. Last Friday, the Health and Human Services Department announced their plans to award at least $750 million in different grants to push electronic [...]

The U.S. General Services Administration (GSA) is making some new moves towards sustainability. The Office of Federal High-Performance Green Buildings has moved from the Public Buildings Service to GSA’s Office of Government-wide Policy, and GSA’s Public Buildings Service established a new position of Chief Greening Officer. The move by the GSA follows an executive order [...]

It has been nearly two years since GSA has had an administrator in place. The long awaited confirmation of Martha Johnson as GSA Administrator occurred on February 4th. She was sworn into office last week on February 16th. During her speech Johnson made some vows to the agency. According to Washington Technology, she said, “As [...]

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) launched a new website that could be a transparency model for other agencies. The website was launched last week. It will be used to give the public new avenues to partake in t he rulemaking process. The site is actually called Rulemaking Gateway. The public can access this site to [...]