According to Government Executive, the Obama administration is successfully pursuing its goal of selling federal real estate with $1.48 billion sold to date. The administration recently released an interactive map of 12,000 properties sold or for sale and introduced a dashboard on Performance.gov that tracks the Office of Management and Budget’s progress toward the President’s [...]
The House, Science, Space and Technology Committee will be holding a hearing next Wednesday titled, “NASA’s Commercial Crew Development Program: Accomplishments and Challenges.” The committee has yet to release all the names of the witnesses to testify before the full committee. Witnesses that have been announced to testify during panel one include: John Elbon, vice [...]
Cloud computing, which has raised concerns over security risks, will make the intelligence community more secure and efficient, the head of the National Security Agency said Thursday. Army Gen. Keith Alexander, also commander of U.S. Cyber Command, told attendees at the International Systems Security Association conference in Baltimore, that cloud is a key part of [...]
The Senate voted 74-26 Thursday to confirm former energy industry executive John Bryson as commerce secretary. President Obama nominated Bryson in May to replace Gary Locke, who was confirmed as U.S. ambassador to China in August. Bryson was chief executive of California utility Edison International from 1990-2008 before becoming chairman of BrightSource Energy. “At such [...]
NASA is embracing the cultural phenomenon of social media in stride. The aerospace giant announced it has rewarded 20 of its Twitter followers with a behind-the-scenes access at the launch of the agency’s next Earth-observing satellite mission, the NPP. Participants will be active in the daylong Tweetup program at Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on [...]
The rising amount of data collected by U.S. satellites and other aerial platforms is overwhelming the Pentagon’s ability to process it, Air Force Gen. Robert Kehler said Tuesday. Kehler, commander of the U.S. Strategic Command, told attendees at the GEOINT symposium the problem cannot be corrected by hiring new analysts. It would take thousands of [...]
Mark Weatherford, formerly the chief security officer at North American Electric Reliability Corp., has been appointed to be the deputy undersecretary for cybersecurity at the Department of Homeland Security. Weatherford replaces Greg Schaffer, who was acting deputy undersecretary for the past five months. Schaffer will return to his position as assistant secretary for cybersecurity and [...]
The Office of Personnel Management said it’s working non-stop to accommodate job seekers on the updated USAJobs.gov site after it was overloaded with high volume traffic and left at a standstill for some users. In fact, OPM has been working to quickly negotiate contracts for more server capacity hoping that the hardware will be in [...]
Overall economic activity expanded in September, but the Federal Reserve System’s Beige Book survey reports growth in many Fed districts could be ”modest’ or “slight.” “Contacts generally noted weaker or less certain outlooks for business conditions,” the Fed’s survey said. The Beige Book is published eight times a year and is a survey of economic conditions in each Fed district. [...]
The Defense Department reported that on a recent visit to Joint Base Langley-Eustis, Va., first lady Michelle Obama announced a private sector hiring commitment of 25,000 military spouses and veterans as part of the Joining Forces campaign. The first lady indicated that 270 companies represented by the American Logistics Association for doing business in military resale and morale, welfare, [...]