Christine Shafik serves as director of the Office of Risk Management, Office of the Chief Financial Officer of the Department of Energy. Shafik is responsible for ensuring effective oversight of the department’s financial resources planning and managing a comprehensive financial management oversight program. She is also responsible for implementing an effective internal control program and [...]

Aneesh Chopra, Federal CTO, posted to the White House Blog this morning about evolving the Open Government Dashboard. He mentioned that Vivek Kundra and himself are unveiling what they call “Version 1.0 of the Open Government Dashboard.” This Dashboard is being launched just after 60 days and will focus on the agencies themselves and how [...]

Hoping to get news and updates from the White House on your iPhone? Well, as they say, “there’s an App for that.” Last month, the White House launched the App for use on the iPod Touch and iPhone as a way of getting Obama’s message out unfiltered by the media.  The move also shows the [...]

Federal CIO Vivek Kundra has started new accountability sessions called TechStat meetings, to be held with department officials and will be conducted in order to assess their IT projects. The goal of these sessions is to ultimately create a more efficient government. Kundra started that the Obama administration is aiming to leverage the power of [...]

In the most recent movement towards implementation of the Open Government Directive, Federal CIO Vivek Kundra and Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra unveiled the launch of Open Government Dashboard, a web page designed to enable the public to track the progress of federal agencies in meeting deadlines for increased transparency. The site examines the progress that [...]

After facing a blizzard of historic proportions this weekend, the Washington, D.C. area is getting ready to batten down the hatches again, as another 15-20’’ is expected drop over Tuesday evening into Wednesday. Also falling to the ground this week: taxpayer dollars.  With the federal government shut down Monday and Tuesday so far this week [...]

Today Aneesh Chopra, Federal CTO, along with Senator Mark Warner, Senator Jim Webb, and Representative Tom Perriello made a milestone Recovery Act Announcement for Virginia – $21.5 million is being poured into expanding broadband access in Virginia. The goal of this Commerce Department decision is to improve economic development in parts of rural Virginia. It [...]

The U.S. Office of Personnel Management has launched a new Open Government site, meeting President Obama’s December 8th, 2009 requirement that federal agencies establish a site within 60 days and publish their open government plan within 120 days. The initiative was created to enhance government transparency and increase civilian participation with the government. Now that [...]

The U.S Air Force has contracted out IBM to create a cloud-computing platform. The cloud platform will be useful in helping to secure military and national security information and data. The contract is 10 months long and will include the Air Force’s nine command centers, 100 military bases, and a total of 700,000 workers around [...]

NASA Administrator Charles F. Bolden has appointed Robert D. Braun the agency’s Chief Technologist.  Braun serves as the principal advisor and advocate on matters concerning agency-wide technology policy and programs. The appointment comes on the heels of NASA’s new initiative “that targets technologies that could be transformational in their ability to improve the capability, reduce [...]