The General Services Administration is ramping up a new project that will allow government policymakers to engage with the public. But it’s not your typical crowd-sourcing effort. The new effort, which GSA is seeking public comment on, is called ExpertNet, and it aims to foster collaboration between federal agencies and private citizens with expertise in [...]

Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski took to the FCC blog to defend his net neutrality proposals, writing that an open Internet is vital for the United States’ economic well-being, especially job creation. Small businesses and start-ups have accounted for the creation of 22 million jobs over the past 15 years, Genachowski wrote, in part [...]

The most important cybersecurity goal for the United States is to protect its government networks, which requires effective public-private partnerships, the White House’s cyber czar said earlier this week. “We have a solemn responsibility” to protect federal networks, said Howard Schmidt, cybersecurity coordinator for the Obama administration, at a Dec. 6 Brookings Institution conference. “I [...]

Following Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra’s announcement of sweeping new changes to federal IT management, how will the Office of Management and Budget make these efforts stick? One thing is clear: The reforms require the partnership of industry and the private sector to succeed, and to do that, the feds and their partner companies [...]

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra announced the government’s sweeping overhaul of federal IT reform at a White House briefing today. But don’t call the government’s next step a radical, new approach. For Kundra and the Office of Management and Budget, it’s all about going back to the basics. Or, as Kundra said as he [...]

Ammo? Check. Body armor? Check. Smartphone? The Army could be putting a check mark next to the last one soon. After ongoing field studies of how to implement mobile devices within the Army, issuing smartphones along with all other equipment may not be that far off. “To most soldiers, it sounds almost too good to [...]

When three high-profile open-government supporters sat down for a live webcast on the one-year anniversary of the White House’s Open Government Directive to take questions from the public, it was clear, they were already thinking of the future. Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra summed up the trio’s perspective best when he announced the upcoming [...]

For the first time, USAspending.gov will also track federal agencies’ payment to sub-contractors in addition to those made to direct recipients or prime contractors. “You will be able to track payments made by federal agencies not only to direct recipients, but also those made by those recipients to other entities – such as by a [...]

In the latest push to raise awareness of preventable diseases and promote healthy living, Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius called on the usual doctors and nurses to lend their support. But she also implored another group:  software developers. This year, as the agency kick starts its new health promotion agenda, Healthy People 2020, [...]

Questions have been swirling about Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski’s new net neutrality proposal since he first laid it out it out last week. It would enshrine the concept of treating all Internet traffic equally into law, but it also held out the carrot of allowing Internet providers to charge customers based on their [...]