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A pilot program DoD established to share cyber threat information between the NSA and Defense companies will be made permanent and expanded to include approximately 200 companies in the coming months.
April 25, 2012 -
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Feds who retire with special skills and top-secret clearances often move into top jobs on Wall Street, with credit card companies or even back in government, Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says. But for those stripped of their clearances, life after Uncle Sam may mean a security guard job at a box store ...
April 25, 2012 -
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On the In Depth show blog, you can listen to the interviews, find more information about the guests on the show each day and links to additional resources.
April 25, 2012 -
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Host John Gilroy will talk federal IT issues with former White House Chief Information Officer Aneesh Chopra. April 24, 2012
April 24, 2012 -
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In a marathon series of votes Tuesday, the Senate considered more than a dozen amendments to a postal reform bill, approving a provision to limit all federal agencies' spending on conferences, but voting down an amendment expanding the federal workers' compensation program. Lawmakers also rejected an amendment that would have required retirement-eligible USPS employees to retire without a buyout payment. The Senate will resume voting on amendments Wednesday at 2 p.m. before voting on a final version of the 21st Century Postal Service Act.
April 24, 2012 -
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Danny Toler becomes the second State Department official to go to the Homeland Security Department's Office of Cybersecurity and Communications since January. He also is the second high ranking official to join DHS in the last week.
April 24, 2012 -
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The Department of Veterans Affairs plans to roll out its planned improvements to the disability claims process to 12 more regional offices this year. The changes include streamlined processing for simple claims, a new, rules-based electronic benefits management system, better triaging of veterans' claims documents, and a cross-functional approach for VA staff. The rest of VA's regional offices will see the changes by next year. It's part of the department's effort to be able to process all disability claims within 125 days by the year 2015.
April 24, 2012 -
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The first outside firms who will make sure cloud computing providers meet federal security guidelines under the new FedRAMP program will be announced by the end of May. The General Services Administration and the National Institutes of Standards of Technology have been sorting through applications for months. The third parties are an instrumental part of FedRAMP, and they'll be subject to conflict of interest rules designed to make sure accreditors aren't also providing cloud computing services to the federal government.
April 24, 2012 -
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Join your colleagues for The Performance Institute’s Government Performance Summit 2012 from June 18-20 at The Washington Marriott at Metro Center. For the past eleven years, federal leaders have gathered to explore the latest mandates…
April 24, 2012 -
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Rep. John Mica (R-Fla.) is calling for the General Services Administration to stop paying an official at the center of the conference spending scandal.
April 24, 2012 -
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Virgin Island Paving Co. successfully sued the Federal Highway Administration, which had rejected the company's low bid for a road contract. The court found that FHA may have been under political pressure not to choose the company.
April 24, 2012 -
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Defense Secretary Leon Panetta has brushed aside Iranian government claims that it has recovered data from a U.S. spy drone that it captured last year. Panetta says he would seriously question their ability to do what they say they have done. Iranian officials claimed Sunday that they were building a copy of the drone and that they had recovered information that the aircraft was used to spy on Osama bin Laden weeks before he was killed.
April 24, 2012 -
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It's long been the tradition of the U.S. Agency for International Development to hire U.S. contractors and nongovernmental organizations. But USAID is not shifting its investments to local entities.
April 24, 2012 -
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The Justice Department has reached a $1 billion settlement with 41 American Indian tribes that had brought 72 separate lawsuits against the U.S. government. Some of the disputes are more than a century old.
April 24, 2012
