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Obama administration hints at flat IT budgets
The sunny days of a growing federal IT budget may soon be over. Office of Management and Budget Director Peter Orszag spoke this week at a leadership breakfast, hinting that the $80 billion federal... Read more...
Fed survey: Are you happy?
President Obama's fiscal 2011 budget has a whimsical plan to survey government workers about their job satisfaction. It also wants to evaluate the well-being of enrollees in the federal health... Read more...
DHS turns to IT to hire 65,700 workers
It's not your father's federal government anymore. And it's not his HR department either. Jeffrey Neal, the personnel chief for the Department of Homeland Security, has a major challenge on his desk:... Read more...
Bill would ban feds from P2P networks
Congress is stepping in to ban the use of public peer-to-peer networks for federal workers. The action follows a recent disaster that encompassed details of ethics investigations of members of... Read more...
How much do the Feds spend on cybersecurity?
Although the government wants every IT department to keep a close eye on how much it is spending, it's pretty surprising that the Office of Management and Budget does not know how much its... Read more...
Next up: Kundra's cybersecurity dashboard
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra is not standing still with the launch of the IT dashboard that shows where money is being spent on government IT. Instead, he's moving quickly toward cybersecurity, and plans... Read more...
Kundra: Put the brakes on number of data centers
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra says there are too many data centers in the federal government, according to an article on Federal News Radio.com. In the last 10 years the number of data centers has jumped... Read more...
Congress focuses on cybersecurity...sort of
Considering the intense workload Congress faces as the year comes to a close, there has been a surprising amount of attention on cybersecurity. The threat of cybercrime and cyberterrorism are... Read more...
Tech helps OPM beat the clock on security clearances
With a little help from technology, the Office of Personnel Management is on track to cut down the average length of time required to process security clearance applications. OPM Director John Berry... Read more...
Stimulus watchdog site cuts red tape for data
The board overseeing economic stimulus spending received a waiver from the 1995 Paperwork Reduction Act that allows it to collect recipient information online without giving the public notice. OMB... Read more...
