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White House unveils more deliverables on anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy
Six deliverables were unveiled across government May 23--20 percent of all the goals laid out in the plan. Five of the announcements were directly related to mobile adoption, use and services in the federal government, while one advances open data efforts around APIs and data.gov.
Agencies need to reduce building space and better use existing space, GSA building service commissioner says
Agencies must consolidate offices and better utilize existing offices to help reduce the amount of money and energy spent on maintaining federal buildings, General Services Administration Public Buildings Service Commissioner Dorothy Robyn told the House Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Economic Development, Public Buildings and Emergency Management in a May 22 hearing .
GSA shares mobile contracting templates
The General Services Administration's office of citizen services and innovative technologies has developed a guide for agencies looking to procure mobile applications, responsively-designed websites, mobile program testing or mobile developer services.
Spotlight: Obama to nominate Tangherlini to stay on as permanent GSA administrator
President Obama nominated Acting General Services Administration head Dan Tangherlini to be the permanent administrator, Obama said in a May 22 statement . Tangherlini had held the role of acting administrator since April 2012.
Conference restrictions enacted in continuing resolution outlined by OGE
The continuing resolution signed into law by President Obama in March included new restrictions around conferences, which the Office of Government Ethics outlines in an advisory (.pdf) published May 15.
GSA failed to follow legal process when doling out bonuses, IG report says
The General Services Administration did not properly review senior executives when giving out bonuses from 2009 to 2011 and instead employed practices that lacked transparency and accountability, a May 16 GSA Inspector General report says. GSA "illustrated a willingness by the GSA to violate legal requirements and the way officials gave out bonuses was a "manufactured process," the report says.
GSA will pay $3M to more than 1,000 contractors kicked out of schedules program
The General Services Administration owes more than one thousand contractors more than $3 million because the agency failed to reimburse vendors after kicking them out of the schedules program.
Digital Government Strategy milestones morphed, say officials
The strategy initially called for a governmentwide bring-your-own-device policy within 3 months, which ended up becoming a 43-page BYOD toolkit (.pdf) published Aug. 23, 2012. "It became quickly apparent that getting out an actual policy that applied across the diversity of agencies in that time frame was not something that was realistic and achievable," said Rick Holgate, chief information officer of the Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms Bureau.
Data catalog in 6 months may not be achievable for all agencies, says OMB advisor
The task of pulling together a complete, standardized inventory of all of its data is an enormous task for agencies—one Martin admits could be an overwhelming challenge.
White House warns of open data mosaic effect
Beyond asking agencies to guard against the release of data with personally-identifiable information, the Open Data Policy published by the White House May 9 directs agencies to account for the "mosaic effect" of data aggregation. The mosaic effect occurs when information alone is not identifiable but when coupled with other available information poses a privacy or security risk.
