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Feds banned from texting while driving
President Obama issued an executive order last week banning federal employees from texting while driving during their work days. The order is extensive. It covers federal employees when they are... Read more...
Rotating federal IT jobs?
The Obama administration cybersecurity report released last month received lots of attention for its major recommendations. But one idea was overlooked, according to Brittany Ballenstedt of... Read more...
OPM abandons RetireEZ
This is a lesson for every agency about reaching too far in developing a project. It happened to the Office of Personnel Management, which had plans for an online retirement calculator that would... Read more...
Feds miss HSPD-12 deadline
The federal government wanted to make sure 5.6 million federal workers and contractors had their high-tech identification cards--or HSPD-12 cards--in hand by October 2008. But whoops, it missed the... Read more...
Government seeks rules for federal social networking
The federal government is not jumping into the world of social networking without any forethought or plan. Although many federal agencies and workers are clamoring for more access to social networks,... Read more...
SPOTLIGHT: Retiring Fed employees caught in a paper chase
The Office of Personnel Management had some grand ideas to automate its retirement system. But six months ago, it canceled a $290 million contract plan for the system's modernization. And with no... Read more...
Former government IT analyst arrested for hacker-loan scam
It is often said that security threats not only come from external hackers and criminal groups, but from people on the inside who know the system, the passwords and the codes. On Friday, a former IT... Read more...
Nearly half of all Feds have HSPD-12 cards
It was in August 2004 that the White House initiated Homeland Security Presidential Directive 12--a plan to enforce standardization of secure identification credentials for government employees and... Read more...
White House faces email hang-up
The White House tried to get responses from federal employees about improving government transparency, but several workers never received the email prompting until the comment period had ended.... Read more...
GSA embraces 2.0
Your son and daughter use social media. Maybe you do, too. And now the General Services Administration just made it easier for federal employees to use YouTube and similar online tools to communicate... Read more...
