When Secretary of State Hillary Clinton announced the findings of a State Department review and laid out a new strategic vision for the agency, WikiLeaks, which published a trove of secret and, often, embarrassing diplomatic cables was the elephant in the room. So, it’s no surprise the State Department’s  reorganization will include new posts, including, [...]

Following an overhaul of federal IT announced at the White House last week, the Defense Department is now getting in on IT reform, with plans to change the way it buys, funds and manages its IT, according to a report on FierceGovernmentIT.com Echoing remarks by federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra about the state of [...]

2009, the first year of President Barack Obama’s tenure as chief executive, was all about building open government policies, federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra told Federal News Radio recently. 2010 was about actually implementing those policies, he added. And, in a segment for the radio station, Chopra said listeners should view those moves to [...]

President Barack Obama met with an impressive roster of chief executives this morning to talk shop about the economy and job creation. “I am looking forward to getting good ideas from them, but I am definitely going to talk to them about how we can get more hiring out there,” Obama told reporters before the [...]

OPM Announces Revamped Federal Leave Policy Overhaul, NWS Says Snowmageddon Sequel Unlikely Director of the Office of Personnel Management John Berry today announced changes to federal leave policy. The new guidelines, announced at a morning conference, come after the passage of a new teleworking bill signed by President Barack Obama last week and just in [...]

Don’t call Congress an archaic body of technological dinosaurs. According to a report in Politico, the incoming class of legislators led by a new Republican majority, is looking to “claw its way into the 21st century,” with a host of new tech-friendly measures. The proposed changes include: allowing iPads on the House floor; allowing candid [...]

The Senate is eying a $1 trillion spending package to fund the government through the end of the fiscal year. But the bill would shave about $10 billion off the Pentagon’s bottom line for the current fiscal year, according to a report on DoDBuzz. The stopgap spending bill passed by the House last week contained [...]

Newly installed Department of Navy Chief Information Officer Terry Halvorsen is ending a storied practice as the head of the Navy’s IT that could have Gov 2.0 ramifications throughout government. He’s ending the Navy CIO blog. In a posting earlier this month, titled appropriately enough “The CIO’s Last Blog,” Halvorsen said the blog, first started [...]

Ahead of the Dec. 21 Federal Communications Commission vote that will determine the fate of Chairman Julius Genachowski’s net neutrality proposal, the lobbyists are swarming Washington. The Washington Post’s technology blog, Post Tech, reports that today is likely to be the last day of such arm-twisting and cajoling before FCC heads to “its bunker to [...]

Don’t call it a comeback. They’ve been here for years. What, specifically? The data stored in the National Archives and Records Administration. Or, what more quaintly used to be referred to as simply archives. And, now they’re easier to search for than ever, following a redesigned NARA website. The Archives.gov website is the public face [...]