Emphasis has grown on systems security and field team management tools as telework becomes more accepted as an alternative for federal offices nationwide, Federal News Radio reported Friday. Michael O’Connell writes that at the U.S. Census Bureau, the technology team has been on a campaign to allow its feds to …
Read More »Dave Wennergren Receives Award Honoring “Chief Change Maker” in the Federal Government
Dave Wennergren, U.S. Defense Department‘s assistant deputy chief management officer, was honored on October 22 for being a “chief change maker” in the federal government, according to an FCW article. The Roger W. Jones award for executive leadership was presented to Wennergren by the American University‘s school of public affairs. Another recipient …
Read More »VanRoekel: US Ahead of Schedule in Closing Data Centers
Last year, the White House set a goal to close 800 data centers by the end of 2015. Today the federal chief information officer said it is ahead of schedule for reaching its goal. Steven VanRoekel cited data center closures as means to “[cut] spending on wasteful, underutilized hardware, software …
Read More »Census Bureau: Income Down, Poverty Up
If anyone needed more proof of the country’s economic struggles, the latest report from the Census Bureau should suffice. The bureau’s annual report of statistics on income, poverty and health care statistics for year 2010 paints a bleak picture of the state of the economy. In 2010, real median income …
Read More »Census Reports $1.6 Billion in 2010 Savings
The U.S. Census Bureau announced today it will be returning $1.6 billion in its 2010 Census operations costs. The savings represent 22 percent of 2010 Census costs this fiscal year. “This is a significant accomplishment, and I would like to thank the American public for responding to the census and …
Read More »Census Bureau Launches Google Maps to Track Census Count
The Census Bureau will launch new interactive Google Maps showing initial mail participation rates from the 120 million household that last week received the 2010 Census questionnaires. The collaborative partnership with Google allows communities the ability to track how their area is responding to the once-a-decade count. The Census Bureau …
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