When President Barack Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law shortly into his presidency two years ago, the administration and the media touted the “shovel-ready” projects the stimulus act would help to create? But, what about the lab-coat-ready projects? Along with the expansion of unemployment benefits and increased spending on healthcare and [...]

Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Julius Genachowski said last week he was ready to debate Congress on the net neutrality rules FCC passed in December. “We are prepared to explain what we did and why we did it,” he said in a panel interview, The Hill reported. “If there’s a debate,” he added, “we [...]

While cybersecurity poses a challenge for the Intelligence Community, especially in the post-WikiLeaks world, Director of National of National Intelligence Gen. James Clapper said the No. 1 priority for the intelligence apparatus remained al-Qaida. “Counterterrorism is our top priority, because job one for the Intelligence Community … is to keep Americans safe and the homeland [...]

The Office of Personnel Management and the Office of Federal Procurement Policy will launch a new collaborative website to help agencies looking to bolster their acquisition workforces. The website and a host of other assessment tools are aimed at bolstering the shortage of qualified contracting officers, Federal News Radio reported. The number of procurement officials [...]

Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, who has ushered in the government’s “cloud-first” approach to federal IT, will address today a sold-out crowd of industry and technology leaders at the Cloud Security Alliance in San Francisco. The cloud summit, held in conjunction with the RSA Conference, a well-known IT security confab, will kick off with [...]

Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz said, with the Defense Department’s budget expected to flatline over the next few years, government contractors, now more than ever, will have to keep their promises. “It’s a simple thing to me — deliver what you promise and don’t promise what you can’t deliver,” Schwartz told an [...]

An array of intelligence officials warned of the possibility of increased budget trimming across the Intelligence Community, even as the threat landscape continues to change, with everything from the national debt to cybersecurity posing potential hazards. “We all understand that we’re going to be in for some belt tightening,” Director of National Intelligence James Clapper [...]

One of the biggest stories to come blasting out of the defense budget, which will be released next week, could be the increases in Defense Department spending on space and rocket programs, The Wall Street Journal reported. That’s because despite the uncertain economic climate and the vigilance of deficit hawks, the Pentagon is actually expected [...]

Chairman of the Federal Communications Commission Julius Genachowski is getting serious about his agency’s commitment to wider adoption of broadband. At an FCC broadband forum earlier this week, Genachowski said a comprehensive broadband policy is a “BFD,” according to a report in The Hill. From there, Genachowski focused his remarks on reducing inefficiency and burdensome [...]

Despite all the news lately about government acquisition, from recent congressional hearings about the Defense Contract Audit Agency to sweeping federal IT reform, one organization says there are a lack of standards in the field of public procurement. In an interview with Federal News Radio, Rick Grimm, chief executive of the National Institute of Governmental [...]