E-Government news from FierceGovernmentIT

Various efforts by the Office of Management and Budget and General Services Administration to boost the White House information technology agenda will continue to receive funding this fiscal year Read more...

The White House spent about $5 million in developing a social network for federal employees before canceling the project in May 2011 due to lack of funding, according to data from a Government Read more...

A Senate Appropriations Committee markup of the annual federal financial services and general government funding bill would give approximately 5 percent less than the president's request but Read more...

Certain cultural values are crucial to the enhancement of e-government readiness, and e-government policies should be tailored to a nation's specific cultural profile, finds a Government Information Read more...

Legislation approved June 16 by a House Appropriations subcommittee would restore, in part, fiscal 2012 funding for the General Services Administration's e-Government Fund. According to a fiscal 2012 Read more...

Lower than expected congressional appropriations require the Office of Management and Budget to cancel two collaborative websites it had under development, says Vivek Kundra, the OMB administrator Read more...

The General Services Administration's electronic government fund will be slashed under the presumptive fiscal 2011 budget, introduced April 11 into the House as H.R. 1473 (.pdf). The House now has Read more...

The White House is getting ready in the next few days to release guidance that will promote electronic dockets for rulemaking, said Cass Sunstein, administrator of OMB's Office of Information and Read more...

Senate appropriators want to make cuts to Office of Management and Budget fiscal 2011 plans for e-government and cloud computing. The Senate Appropriations Committee voted July 29 to reduce a $35 Read more...

The Financial Systems Integration Office, the federal office that manages the Financial Management Line of Business, will stop testing and certifying federal financial systems on March 31. In a Read more...