AOL Government Editorial Director Wyatt Kash recently caught up with McClure, and his principal deputy, 
When it comes to keeping abreast of government IT innovation, few individuals enjoy a better perspective than Dave McClure, associate administrator for GSA’s Office of Citizen Services and Innovative Technologies. McClure spent 14 years with the Government Accountability Office leading IT reviews — and five more years with Gartner, heading government research, before joining the General Services Administration in 2009. In addition to supporting a number of major federal IT initiatives, McClure also makes time to meet with entrepreneurs in Silicon Valley to keep his finger on the technology pulse.
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The TechAmerica Foundation, which has helped define cloud computing and IT policy discussions in the public sector, announced a new leader today.
Jennifer A. Kerber, considered an expert in technology policy, was named by the Foundation’s board to be the organization’s new president. Keep reading →
Federal agencies looking to attract the next generation of technically-inclined leaders have their work cut out for them, but may also have a window of opportunity, according to new analysis of college students’ plans released this week by the Partnership for Public Service.
Based on a survey of 35,401 students from 599 colleges and universities across the nation, the Partnership found that just 6% of students intend to work in federal, state or local government–and the percentage was even lower among students majoring in technical areas. Keep reading →
Nearly two dozen government technology executives and organizations were honored by their peers in Washington, D.C., Thursday evening at a ceremony hosted at the Newseum by the Government Technology Research Alliance.
Ira Grossman, chief enterprise architect at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (pictured above, right), and Dr. Ron Ross, senior fellow for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (pictured above, left), were among those who earned special recognition at the GovTek Awards ceremony. Keep reading →
The American Council for Technology-Industry Advisory Council released its list of top 30 government IT programs and projects for 2012.
The finalists in ACT-IAC’s 11th annual Excellence.gov Awards Program, were selected by a panel of more than 50 judges, representing senior government IT and industry IT organizations. Keep reading →
A senior Google executive issued new details today–and shared a letter sent to eight Congressmen, Jan. 30–in response to widespread concerns about Google’s plans to revise its privacy policy March 1.
Pablo Chavez, Google’s director for public policy, outlined what was changing at Google — “our privacy policies” — and what was not –“our privacy controls”– in a public policy blog posted Jan. 31. 
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The names of this year’s 100 most influential executives in the government IT community were released by Federal Computer Week magazine this morning.
The Federal 100 Awards recognize government and industry leaders who have played pivotal roles in the federal government IT community-and who “have made a difference in the way technology has transformed their agency or accelerated their agency’s mission.” Keep reading →
UPDATED. President Barack Obama reached out across the Internet to engage directly with Americans and small business owners in a live virtual interview staged by The White House Monday. The virtual session, held at 5:30 EST, was hosted by Google and produced using YouTube in what was billed as a post State of the Union Google+ Hangout.
The online question and answer session were streamed live on WhiteHouse.gov, YouTube.com/WhiteHouse and on the White House Google+ page. Keep reading →
Government agencies are savings billions of dollars from virtualization; and those savings are projected to grow as workloads in virtualized server and desktop environments are expected to double by 2015. But agencies must overcome funding uncertainties, concerns about legacy systems and other barriers to achieve virtualization’s full potential, according to a new industry survey of government IT executives.
The new study found that 82% of federal and 77% of state-and-local IT professionals say their agencies have already implemented some degree of server virtualization, where computing work is done in artificially-created, software-controlled work spaces. Keep reading →
The Defense Information Systems Agency has opened a program office to manage Defense Department mobile devices and the applications that run on them, according to David Bennett, DISA’s acting component acquisition executive.
The new agency will also run an online store providing DOD users with applications and mobile device management (MDM) services, Bennett said, according to a Jan. 27 report by Government Computer News. Bennett commented on the initiative at an IDGA Network Enabled Operations conference in Alexandria, Va., Jan. 24. Keep reading →