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Senate approves full VA IT budget request
The Senate voted July 20 to approve the Veterans Affairs Department request for $3.16 billion to spend on information technology in the coming fiscal year. This places the Senate version of a bill to...
Spotlight: Federal workers comp fraud in lawmakers' crosshairs
The Government Accountability Office wants information on federal employees who are abusing workers compensation benefits, as part of an investigation into the Federal Employees' Compensation Act
OMB releases IT Dashboard, TechStat code amid program funding uncertainty
The Office of Management and Budget has released the open source software code behind the IT Dashboard . According to a March 31 OMB blog post from Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, the
Republicans downplay possibility of government shutdown
House of Representatives approval along party lines in a before-dawn Feb. 19 vote on a spending bill to fund the remainder of the fiscal year that would cut $61 billion from federal agencies, has
Sunlight Foundation finds $1.3 trillion worth of inaccuracies in USASpending.gov
A government website meant to track federal spending is off by more than $1.3 trillion, says the Sunlight Foundation, a non-profit watchdog. When the watchdog compared data posted online at
Open government plans week arrives
Agency open government plans will be unveiled this week. In a Dec 8, 2009 memo , Office of Management and Budget director Peter Orszag directed agencies to prepare and post online, by April 7, plans
Coburn: Federal transparency efforts fall short
Open government transparency efforts are falling short, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) told Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra during a March 23 hearing. "Had you put the same effort into
DHS finally gets an intel chief
Caryn Wagner, whose confirmation was among two dozen held up in the Senate, was confirmed last week to head DHS Office of Intelligence and Analysis (I&A). A hold had been placed on Wagner's
