The Defense Department has its eye set on reducing the armed forces’ reliance on fossil fuels both as a matter of national security and a way to save money, according to one of the Pentagon’s top energy specialists. Sharon Burke, director of DoD’s operational energy plans and programs, said reducing demand and consumption of fossil [...]

The Department of Health and Human Services is making preparations on a new healthcare innovation center to open next year, FederalNewsRadio.com reports. The new Center for Medicare and Medicaid Innovation is mandated by the healthcare reform law passed earlier this year. The center will focus on improved payment and delivery systems as part of overall [...]

For many federal workers, clicking “search” can lead to billions of dollars in lost productivity, according to a new survey. Nextgov reports on the MeriTalk study, which found inefficient file searching on internal databases accounted for a month of wasted time each year. The average federal salary is $74,403, which leads to an estimated $15.4 [...]

The wars of the 20th century were fought on nearly all fronts: land, sea, air and, even in the era of high-tech satellites, space. But the Defense Department is now adding another frontier to the battlefield – cyberspace. “Information technology provides us with critical advantages in all of our war-fighting domains so we need to [...]

Here’s a riddle for you: How can you make stock trades based on information that hasn’t been made public yet AND avoid jail time? Run for Congress. That’s right, even though Congress has an unprecedented stake in America’s economy, being a majority shareholder in GM, exerting unprecedented control over the healthcare and energy industries, there [...]

The federal government is continuing to track agency performance on its new website Performance.gov, which is scheduled to become available to the public later this fall. But Office of Management and Budget Associate Director Shelley Metzenbaum said the performance data compiled on the website would not be used to set program budgets, according to a [...]

A majority of Americans say they believe federal workers are overpaid, and a third of Americans say they think federal workers are underqualified compared to their counterparts in the private sector, according to a new Washington Post poll. The gloomy portrait of federal workers comes as anti-Washington sentiment, which often turns on the view the [...]

Representatives from the Obama administration, industry leaders and regulators, and energy advocates and entrepreneurs will all converge in Washington this week for the annual Smart Grid summit, GridWeek. The event aims to explore the impact implementing the Smart Grid–the modern electricity network that uses two-way digital communications technology–will have on the economy, infrastructure and the [...]

The Office of Management and Budget recently announced it was shuttering and consolidating federal centers throughout the country. However, after OMB completed its reviews of the centers before the consolidation, it discovered there are nearly 1,000 more data centers than initial estimates, Data Center Knowledge reports. The previous underestimated number of data centers was used [...]

Deputy Director of Mission Support for the National Reconnaissance Office Robert Zitz briefed the Intelligence and National Security Alliance last month on the timely issues of Multi-INT and information-sharing between intelligence agencies. Speaking before INSA’s Innovative Technology Council, Zitz emphasized access to communications, collaboration and support for intelligence-gatherers to better produce real-time integrated intelligence. NRO, [...]