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There may still be some confusion — even among feds — over the implementation of the various recovery and bailout programs out there. There’s the Troubled Asset Relief Program (TARP), which focuses on banks. There’s…
August 12, 2009 -
The General Services Administration is saying it will bring the Office of Acquisition Policy back into the Office of Governmentwide Policy. Originally part of that Office, the Office of Acquisition Policy was renamed the Office…
August 11, 2009 -
It’s my birthday on Wednesday, but… here’s a gift for you… Earlier this year, for Federal News Radio Book Club book number four, we discussed Fired Up or Burned Out: How to reignite your team’s…
August 11, 2009 -
The Federal Dispute Resolution conference is happening now in Phoenix, Az. and our own Senior Correspondent Mike Causey is there. He gives us a breakdown of who’s there and what’s going on.
August 11, 2009 -
Federal education officials — as well as leaders in education, research, and development — are out in New Mexico this week for a summit on the future of public education. The three-day summit, Unleashing Knowledge…
August 11, 2009 -
I mentioned earlier about GSA’s Michael Robertson being named as GSA’s chief acquisition officer and the Associate Administrator of the Office of Governmentwide Policy… There were other announcements too. Here is the note sent out…
August 10, 2009 -
The DorobekInsider has learned that the General Services Administration this afternoon will name Michael Robertson, who currently serves as GSA’s White House liaison, as the associate administrator of GSA’s Office of Governmentwide Policy and the…
August 10, 2009 -
The Pentagon\'s chief information officer is conducting an agency-wide review of the use of popular social networking sites like Facebook and Twitter. Officials are trying to balance the benefits of allowing the use of social networking on recruiting, public affairs and troop morale, against the potential security risks. Defense Secretary Gates gets a report on ‘web 2.0\' at the end of this month, and department-wide policy is expected out in late September.
August 10, 2009 -
Yes, I’ve been going on and on and on about the fifth meeting of the Federal News Radio Book Club, talking about the book Payback: Reaping the Rewards of Innovation by James P. Andrew and…
August 05, 2009 -
The White House wants agencies to shift priorities as they develop their fiscal 2011 budget submissions to focus more on the administration\'s science and technology priorities.
August 05, 2009 -
ID management can sound, well, boring. But there is something of a transition going on with government identity management — shifting more from getting HSPD-12 cards out to people to now focusing on what you…
August 03, 2009 -
FederalNewsRadio has been following the development of the Obama administration’s open government and transparency initiative. The federal government used an innovative way of reaching out to include the public in the development of that policy…
August 03, 2009 -
The U.S. Army has picked two firms -- Clark Energy Group of Bethesda, and Acciona Solar Power of Henderson, Nevada -- to help develop and build the largest solar power array in the Department of Defense. It will be built at Fort Irwin, in California\'s Mojave Desert. When complete, the solar farm will generate 500 megawatts using photovoltaic cells, and solar concentrators, which turns the heat of the sun into electricity.
August 03, 2009 -
The goat is traditionally the mascot of the U.S. Navy. But at Camp Williams in Utah, the Army National Guard is putting goats to work as fire protection officers. Since 1999, the Utah Guard has enlisted more than 12-hundred goats and sheep to consume sagebrush and oak brush that usually become fuel for wildfires. Goat-created firebreaks stopped big fires from spreading in 2001, and 2006.
August 03, 2009 -
We have been telling you about the the Recovery and Transparency Board and the General Services Administration, which acted as the Recovery Board’s acquisition team, $9.5 million contact award to Smartronix for the next generation…
August 03, 2009