Peter L. Levin was appointed senior adviser to the secretary, and chief technology officer of the Department of Veterans Affairs June 1, 2009. Levin’s job is to identify new technologies and promote innovations that will allow VA to serve veterans with higher reliability, greater accessibility, and reduced cost. He also acts as a liaison to [...]

Deputy Defense Secretary William Lynn visited with American allies in Australia recently, promoting American ties with the nation and to seek cooperation on cyber security issues. As reported by The New New Internet: “We are much less in a world now of ‘like on like,” he said, using a term for conventional warfare. “We face [...]

Federal News Radio reports that William (Bill) Turnbull, the Energy Department’s Associate CIO for Advanced Technology and Systems Integration, will now serve as acting CIO at the Energy Department after Tom Pyke retires Feb. 26. In a note to Energy Department CIO staff, Pyke said that Energy Department deputy CIO Carl Staton will also be [...]

Casey Coleman ,CIO of the GSA Casey Coleman is a big fan of “Management 2.0” consultant Gary Hamel.  She featured his work, Moonshots for Management, on her GSA blog last summer.  The piece is part of a larger initiative at the Management Lab on Management Innovation, defined as “an organization’s ability to effect fundamental changes [...]

H. Giovanni Carnaroli serves as associate chief information officer for IT policy oversight at the Department of Transportation. He is responsible for leading a team in all areas of IT policy, investment management, Enterprise Architecture, and governance. He previously was program director for the IT Project and Portfolio Services in the FAA Office of the [...]

Tom Perrelli is the 18th associate attorney general at the Department of Justice, a post he has held since the Senate confirmed him March 12, 2009. Previously, Perrelli served as counsel to then-Attorney General Janet Reno for almost two years before becoming the deputy assistant attorney general for the civil division. The civil division defends [...]

The Department of Defense is adopting as final, with changes, the interim rule amending the Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) to address statutory provisions relating to interagency procurements on behalf of DoD. The now-final rule adds new policy to address certain requirements and expands existing DFARS definitions – effective March 15, 2010. According to [...]

HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius and Labor Secretary Hilda Solis announced today a total of nearly $1 billion in American Reinvestment and Recovery Act (ARRA) awards to advance the adoption and meaningful use of health IT.  The awards also include funds to train workers for the health care jobs of the future and are intended to [...]

Carl Fillichio is senior adviser to the secretary for public affairs and communication at the Department of Labor. Fillichio was previously a Clinton appointee who served under labor secretaries Robert Reich and Alexis Hermann. After graduating from John Carroll University in Ohio, Fillichio joined a large PR firm that focused on social causes and marketing. [...]

Today, Energysaver.gov is the most highly searched term in Google. On the heels of the Cash for Appliances announcement and the ban of incandescent light bulbs, this government site has been topping trends. What is energysaver.gov and why is it so newsworthy? Energysaver.gov is a Department of Energy site devoted to ways in which American’s [...]