Federal Communications Commission Chairman Julius Genachowski has appointed Columbia University professor Henning Schulzrinne as the agency’s new chief technology officer according to an agency announcement Monday. At Columbia, Schulzrinne is Julian Clarence Levi Professor of mathematical methods and computer science and a professor of engineering at the university’s Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science. [...]

The risk of a government shutdown is off the table until next fall after nine-month fiscal year 2012 spending bill became law over the weekend. The omnibus bill passed in the Senate on Saturday with a 67-32 vote and was signed into law later that afternoon. The total funding for the bill including war funds [...]

Retired Army Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the former commander of U.S. and NATO forces in Afghanistan, has been appointed chairman of the board of directors for Siemens Government Technologies, the company announced Monday. McChrystal served in the Afghanistan command post from 2009-10 prior to his retirement after a 34-year Army career. From 2008-09, he served as [...]

The White House has recently released its cybersecurity plan, “The Trustworthy Cyberspace: Strategic Plan for the Federal Cybersecurity Research and Development Program.” Authors of the plan say the program promotes three main principles. Those principles include research aimed at cybersecurity deficiencies and focused on root causes of vulnerabilities, having the plan channel resources from a [...]

Executive Mosaic, the parent company of ExecutiveGov and a stable of online news properties geared toward the government contracting industry, has launched the most in-depth issue yet of our quarterly print magazine GovConExec. In our winter 2011 issue, we take readers into the new C4ISR for our cover story. C4ISR covers more than just the battlefield, as [...]

Congress may include $12.4 million for the Electronic Government Fund in the $1 trillion omnibus spending bill which legislatures are working to pass before a Friday deadline to avoid a government shutdown. The Electronic Government Act was signed into law in 2002 to “improve the methods by which government information, including information on the internet, [...]

The 2012 National Defense Authorization Act has made it through both houses of Congress and is now off to the White House for signing. The White House had previously issued threats to veto the bill, but lifted any such threat once a clear deal was in sight, according to Politico. The bill passed in the House by [...]

The federal government was again on the brink of shutting down Friday, but Congress is on track to keep the government running past a Friday deadline. Late Thursday night, congressional leaders reached a tentative deal on the $1 trillion omnibus spending bill that would fund several agencies through to the end of fiscal year 2012, [...]

Deal or no deal, agencies are preparing for a shutdown in case short-term funding deals lose steam or do not happen at all, according to a Washington Post report. While agencies such as the departments of Commerce, Agriculture, House and Urban Development, Transportation, Justice, State and NASA and other agencies will not be affected due [...]

House Democrats Eddie Bernice Johnson of Texas and Donna Edwards of Maryland are introducing a bill that provides $300 million to research the founding of a national public safety broadband network, according to The Hill newspaper. Johnson and Edwards say the Public Safety Broadband Network Enabling Act would fund the National Institute of Standards and [...]