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 [...]

Led by Rep. Steny Hoyer (D-Md.), the House majority leader, a bevy of local lawmakers is pushing back against the Obama administration’s plans for a two-year federal pay freeze. In a letter sent to the chairman of the House Appropriations Committee Rep. David Obey (D-Wis.) Monday, the lawmarkers urged Congress to only consider a one-year [...]

The Pentagon faces a 50 percent chance of budget cuts in the year ahead, the Pentagon’s No. 2 uniformed officer said, with money freed up from department efficiencies likely to “migrate” throughout the government. Gen. James Cartwright, vice chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, speaking at a defense investment conference last week, said the [...]

Treasury Secretary Timothy F. Geithner is issuing Treasury notes. Well, in a manner of speaking. The secretary is the latest in a series of administration department heads and agency executives to get bitten by the blogging bug. His blog, Treasury Notes, went live on Monday, part of a redesigned Treasury.gov website and a renewed presence [...]

If the cooling (or downright frigid) temperatures are any indication, the holidays are approaching, which for many mean impending vacations from work or school. But, before you close the books just yet, ExecutiveGov takes you back to school on three key pieces of legislation dealing with the business of government contracting over the past 25 [...]

Following an announcement by the Federal Trade Commission that it would consider limiting advertisers’ ability to track customers online, a Democratic lawmaker said he wants to create a “Do Not Track” option specifically for children. Rep. Ed Markey (D-Mass.), who Politico reports is one of the top online privacy advocates and chairs the House Privacy [...]

Updated 2:22 p.m.: The Open Gov webcast has been rescheduled for 2:30 p.m. tomorrow, Dec. 8, because of the president’s press conference. The White House is gearing up to celebrate the one-year anniversary of its Open Government Initiative, and in a nod to its Gov 2.0 goals, the White House is accepting questions via Facebook [...]

While other agencies are looking to shutter federal data centers, the Defense Department is rolling out an ambitious project designed to link researchers with DoD supercomputer centers. The Defense Information Systems Agency submitted a formal request for proposal for its Defense Research and Engineering Network III, seeking companies to help build the network, according to [...]

The Office of Management and Budget issued a memo late Friday night, instructing federal workers and contractors not to read WikiLeaks materials, according to The Washington Post. “Classified information, whether or not already posted on public websites or disclosed to the media, remains classified,” the memo states, “and must be treated as such by federal [...]

A new bill proposed by Sens. Olympia Snow (R-Maine) and Mark Warner (D-Va.) would require all federal buildings to install small wireless base stations to free up space on overtaxed cellphone networks, according to a report in The Hill. The Federal Wi-Net Act, introduced Friday, directs all publicly accessible federal buildings to install Wi-Fi base [...]