The Navy and Marines have a network. The Army has its knowledge online. The Air Force wanted to be the cyber czar. The Joint Staff has a network. NSA has a really big network. And then there’s the Department of Homeland Security and everyone else in government. Everyone has a network.
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The proposed realignment of federal agencies announced by the Obama administration would be more extensive than first announced last Friday, affecting the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and the National Institute of Standards and Technology among other agencies, according to a report today by Federal Computer Week.
Office of Management and Budget’s Jeffrey Zients, who earlier today was named OMB acting director, told reporters during a briefing Jan. 13, that there would be a second phase of the proposed reorganization. In the initial announcement, the White House proposed a realignment that called for merging six trade agencies into a new, cabinet-level agency to promote export and business development. Keep reading →
The White House announced today that Jeffrey Zients will serve as the acting director of the Office of Management and Budget.
Zients is currently deputy director for management and chief performance officer at OMB. He replaces Jack Lew who last week was named as chief of staff to the president after William Daley announced he will be leaving the position later this month. Keep reading →
Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel provided preliminary technology details that will support President Obama’s plans, announced earlier today, that call for merging the trade and commerce activities of six federal agencies and for making it easier for businesses to interact with federal agencies.
VanRoekel also elaborated on a series of new initiatives his office is taking to promote cross-governmental technology strategies in the coming year. Keep reading →
President Obama plans to ask Congress for the authority to merge six trade and commerce agencies in a move to pare redundant costs, according to a report in The Hill today.
The proposed merger is part of broader considerations to streamline government that have been under discussion by the Office of Management and Budget for a number of months, a senior administration told The Hill. Keep reading →
Federal Chief Information Officer Steven VanRoekel is expected to elaborate on a new set of mobile government initiatives during a speech scheduled this Friday that will be broadcast live over the Internet by the trade group AFFIRM and by Breaking Gov.
The broadcast will appear on AFFIRM’s website and carried by Breaking Gov on this page Jan. 13, beginning at noon eastern standard time. (A recorded version of VanRoekel’s remarks are now available here.) Keep reading →
Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel today announced a new set of initiatives to spur broader adoption of mobile technology for the federal government, calling 2012 “the year of mobile government.”
Speaking at a government conference held at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, VanRoekel described a new 2012 “Roadmap for Federal Mobility” that would put an emphasis on governance, sharing technologies wherever possible, and collaborating with the private sector to accelerate adoption. Keep reading →
Social media and Internet freedom have become an increasingly important part of the State Department’s agenda, a senior adviser to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said today during an international video Web chat with journalists and bloggers.
Alec Ross, senior adviser for innovation at the State Department, said social media has become both an essential communication tool for diplomats as well as an barometer of broader social freedoms across the globe. Keep reading →
When the Senior Executive Service was established by the Civil Service Reform Act of 1978, the vision was as lofty as it was pragmatic.
The government of the United States needed to attract and employ a pool of the highest quality management executives available. And it needed a better system for holding those executives more uniformly accountable for their individual and organizational performance.
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The Air Force Special Operations Command announced it plans to buy 2,861 iPad 2 tablets in a move to unload as much as 70 pounds of paper per flight.
The decision, announced in a Dec. 29, 2011, justification and approval notice, and first reported by Nextgov, followed a three-month product evaluation begun last July and completed in the fall on five aircraft. Command officials concluded that iPad not only meet but exceeded AFSOC mission specifications, the report said. Keep reading →