The Defense Department is making ‘prudent’ plans for the increasingly likely possibility of a government shutdown, as the latest string of stopgap spending measures is due to expire April 8. “While the administration believes that a government shutdown will be averted, the department, including the service leadership, is engaged in prudent planning so that we [...]

ExecutiveGov’s round-up of news you need to read to stay up to speed on federal policy impacting the government-contracting community. New House Measure to Supply DoD Funding Even if Gov’t Shuts Down Military Times reports the latest continuing resolution stopgap funding measure approved by the House late yesterday would avert a government shutdown by one [...]

Deputy Director of information management and CIO of the Defense Intelligence Agency Grant Schneider has strong feelings about the data layer –  the military-intelligence agency’s wealth of information and its ability to be both shared and secured. In an extensive interview with Defense Systems, Schneider, who is also chairman of the Defense Department Intelligence Information [...]

When is a tweet more than just a tweet? Well, when the tweeter is a government agency or department, the 140-word missive, along with Facebook postings and YouTube uploads, becomes a document to be archived following federal guidelines for storing and managing records. It’s no secret the proliferation of social media has thrown a snarl [...]

The push for effective electronic-health records aided by cloud computing, which offers services stored and accessible via the Internet, could be the perfect partnership for new business opportunities, a pithy write-up in this week’s Economist suggests. But even with the policy nudge toward EHRs, led by White House Chief Technology Office Aneesh Chopra, and the [...]

ExecutiveGov’s round-up of news you need to read to stay up to speed on federal policy impacting the government-contracting community. DoD Acquisition Chief Talk Better Buying at Army TACOM Command The Defense Department’s acquisition chief dropped by the U.S. Army TACOM Life Cycle Management Command as part of his tour of major military acquisition centers [...]

One of the philosophical cornerstones of the open-government websites championed by federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra was to promote transparency in government. For example, the Office of Management and Budget launched the IT Dashboard to track federal investments in IT projects to increase agency accountability and also to “shine a light” on where federal [...]

ExecutiveGov’s round-up of news you need to read to stay up to speed on federal policy impacting the government-contracting community. OMB to Shutter Open-gov Sites? Federal News Radio reports the Office of Management and Budget will shut down seven open-government websites by the end of May because of a lack of funding related to the [...]

Energy Department Secretary Steve Chu recently announced his department will dramatically reduce the costs of patents, slashing the price from $15,000  to $1,000. This is all in an effort by the Obama administration to encourage entrepreneurship and help the start-up process for small businesses. The program, part of President Barack Obama’s Startup America Initiative, promotes [...]