FAA to Reprogram $253M, Keep Contract Towers Open
The Federal Aviation Administration will keep contract towers open as the recently-enacted Reducing Flight Delays Act of 2013 allowed the agency to reprogram $253 million in funding ...
Arati Prabhakar: DARPA Delays Some Cyber Contracts Under Sequestration
Arati Prabhakar
Sequestration cuts have delayed the Defense Advanced Research Project Agency‘s efforts to build cybersecurity capabilities with private firms and academic institutions, ...
Jerry Williams Named Education Department Student Aid Office CIO
Jerry Williams
Jerry Williams, chief information officer at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, will move to the Education Department to assume the CIO role in the ...
WH 2014 Budget Request Includes 4% VA Funding Boost; Eric Shineski Comments
Eric Shinseki
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs has received a 4 percent funding increase in the White House’s budget request for fiscal year 2014, pending congressional ...
Stephen Fuller: Sequestration Impact Won’t Be As Severe, Immediate As Predicted
Stephen Fuller
George Mason University economics professor Stephen Fuller has said that sequestration’s impact may not be as severe as he predicted, according to a Washington Business ...
HHS Pushing Employee-Led Innovation Projects; Bryan Sivak Comments
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services has set aside seed money for pushing employee-led innovation projects aimed to promote the agency’s policies and priorities, Information ...
Christopher Painter: World Needs Cyber Conduct Standards
Christopher Painter, the State Department‘s coordinator for cyber issues, has called for international standards to govern cyber conduct and said what could be acceptable to some ...
Report: Federal Agencies Saved $300M Via Strategic Sourcing
Dan Tangherlini
U.S. General Services Administration Acting Administrator Daniel Tangherlini has said a federal strategic sourcing program has helped agencies save $300 million from ...
Report: DOT Could Cancel Contracts Under Sequestration
The Transportation Department has warned contractors that it may have to cancel or renegotiate its contracts as it manages its share of the $85 billion in fiscal year 2013 budget cuts ...
NIST Drafting Private Sector Cyber Framework; Ari Schwartz Comments
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is drafting cybersecurity regulations for private companies and businesses that manage critical infrastructure.
NIST said at an industry ...
