ExecutiveGov’s round-up of news you need to read to stay up to speed on federal policy impacting the government-contracting community. Kundra at the Whiteboard Hot on the heels of a less-than-favorable Government Accountability Office report on the IT Dashboard, federal CIO Vivek Kundra, who has championed the online tool to track federal IT investments, is [...]

ExecutiveGov’s round-up of news you need to read to stay up to speed on federal policy impacting the government-contracting community. Wrap-up of Gen. Alexander’s Cybercom Hearings Cyber news and analysis website (and ExecutiveGov sister site) The New New Internet has an interesting wrap-up of NSA Director and U.S. Cyber Command head Gen. Keith Alexander’s testimony [...]

The nameplate on General Services Administration head Martha Johnson’s desk could read  facilitator-in-chief. In a press briefing with reporters earlier this week, Johnson said the agency she heads is embracing the “role of facilitator and getting close to our clients in new ways.” Or, as a report in Government Executive put it: “Maybe the General [...]

Forget the “three Rs.” In a speech at an education and technology conference, White House Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra said the administration’s vision for education and technology focuses on infrastructure, access and research. While Chopra’s speech at the Consortium for School Networking focused on the future, as with many such forward-thinking initiatives, the question [...]

Former National Security Agency and the CIA Director Gen. Michael Hayden took to the pages of the Air Force’s Strategic Studies Quarterly for a discussion on the future of all things cyber. But, first, there are some issues in cyber’s present that need to be cleared up, he wrote. “Rarely has something been so important [...]

NASA Chief Technology Officer for IT Chris Kemp announced on his blog earlier this week that, after five years with the space agency, he is stepping down. The announcement was made with “mixed emotions,” he wrote on his NASA blog. In the end, the “difficult decision,” he said, turned on the lack of opportunity for [...]

There’s another new face at the White House Office of Science and Technology’s policy shop, which saw two major departures in the last few months. Daniel Weitzner, a Commerce Department official, is expected to be named deputy chief technology officer for Internet policy, a spot previously held by Andrew McLaughlin. GovFresh reported last week an [...]

The lofty aim of open government and government transparency, a rhetorical hallmark of the Obama White House, is getting some not-so-kind reviews two years in. The mid-term evaluation and reflection comes as a confluence of factors come to a head: congressional oversight hearings, two investigative reports and a government watchdog report all on the topic [...]

Mindy Connolly, the General Services Administration’s new chief acquisition officer, is on the same page with many other Obama administration officials when it comes to improving communications between federal contracting officials and the private sector. For example, in an interview with Washington Business Journal, the agency’s new CAO said there are barriers to communication “on [...]

Federal Chief Technology Officer Aneesh Chopra has joined efforts with One Economy, a technology advocacy organization, which recently formed a national advisory council on broadband adoption. Chopra, a point person for the Obama administration’s broadband efforts, laid out the government’s trajectory and initiatives in a keynote address Monday at One Economy’s kickoff event for its [...]