Beth Noveck, former White House deputy chief technology officer and director of the Open Government Initiative, says the administration is on-track in its efforts to re-brand “open government,” as “good government. Blogging on The Huffington Post, Noveck, the author of Wiki Government, a tome on social media and democracy, says the name change helps to [...]

In an effort to boost broadband expansion, Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has proposed lowering the fees telecommunications firms traditionally have to pay to use electric companies’ utility poles. When a telecom attaches equipment to a utility pole — what POLITICO described as those “ugly sticks in the ground” — it faces an attachment [...]

The Health and Human Services Department has announced a new director of its health IT initiatives to replace agency stalwart Dr. David Blumenthal, who is returning to academia. HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius announced Farzad Mostashari, who had served as Blumenthal’s second-in-command since July 2009, would take over as director of the Office of the National [...]

The White House and Congress reached a deal late Friday night, coming down to the wire to together pass a spending bill covering the rest of the fiscal year and averting a government shutdown. That outcome was a bit of a surprise as beltway doomsayers had predicted since the middle of last week that the [...]

The Defense Department’s  newly released National Security Space Strategy has made it clear –  once known as the final frontier, the race to leverage technology and capabilities in space has opened up to a number of competing nations, making the limitless cosmos feel a little cozier these days. The buzzwords, according to the strategy and [...]

As a government shutdown becomes increasingly likely, ExecutiveGov points you to the stories you need to read to stay up to speed on what a government shutdown means for you. When Will the Lights Go Off? FAQs on the Shutdown The Washington Post has an exhaustive list of FAQs on what is likely to happen [...]

Using history as a guide, Defense Secretary Robert Gates told reporters in a tongue-in-cheek exchange, “a smart thing for government is always to pay the guys with the guns first.” But, while all U.S. service members will eventually be paid if the government shuts down following the ongoing funding fracas on Capitol Hill, their paychecks [...]

Lt. Gen. Susan Lawrence, the Army’s new chief information officer/G-6, is a true believer in a “one Army network approach,” as evidenced by her March 31 address to top Army and civilian leaders, Nextgov reports. The global Army enterprise network “is all about data availability,” she said, which means the Army has to begin changing [...]

ExecutiveGov’s round-up of news you need to read to stay up to speed on federal policy impacting the government-contracting community. DoD, VA Talk Details of EHR Merge The Defense Department and the Department of Veterans Affairs are providing more information about their agreement to create a joint common platform for their departments’ electronic medical records. [...]

The latest proposal for a continuing resolution to come out of the House Appropriations Committee includes $17 million for the Office of Management and Budget’s E-Government program, which administers funds for open-government sites, Federal News Radio reports. However, while a marked increase from the $2 million previously proposed, it is still a far cry from [...]