The employee-free-choice act, or “card check” is the proposed legislation that would eliminate secret-ballot elections in the process used to form workplace unions. But how would it affect local federal contractors? Bobbie Kilberg is President…
Congress has passed the $410-billion dollar omnibus spending bill, and just in the nick of time, too! The continuing resolution that was funding government expires today. Joining us to analyze the package is Congressional Quarterly…
The ACT-IAC government 2.0 panel today at FOSE As I have been mentioning, I have the opportunity to moderate a panel at the FOSE trade show on Wednesday titled Government 2.0: Evolution or revolution. I’ll…
There are a lot of opinions on how the defense procurement process could be reformed. The House Armed Services Committee has formed a bi-partisan panel to deal with the issue, and there is a bill…
Vivek Kundra The new Obama administration chief information officer Vivek Kundra is waisting no time getting out there and introducing himself. He had his first interview with Federal News Radio 1500 AM’s Jason Miller yesterday……
New push to improve legal protection for federal whistleblowers
Opportunity name:Information Technology Support Services IV (ITSS IV)
Kamal Bherwani Chief Information Officer & Executive Director, HHS-Connect March 9th and 11th, 2009
CHEERS To President Obama who wisely gave the coup de grâce to the ill fated A-76 process. The A-76 process, to outsource tasks once only performed by government, had some worthy goals. But, the implementation…
Just a reminder that you still have a few days to read Jeff Jarvis’s “What Would Google Do?” which is the Federal News Radio Book Club book for March. First, the details: Our discussion will…
It’s the big FOSE trade show next week. Despite a rough year and questions about how many people will be there, FOSE still is the only place where the government IT community comes together as…
Amy Morris Executive Editor, FederalNewsRadio In an effort to keep the federal government running for at least the next few days, Congress passed a stopgap spending measure today. This became necessary after a massive funding…
The Senate has postponed voting on a $410-billion dollar omnibus spending plan to keep most federal agencies running thru the end of this fiscal year. Up to now, programs have been getting money at 2008…
Vivek Kundra The WP reports this morning what we, of course, have been telling you for week — here and here and here and here — that DC CTO Vivek Kundra is joining the White…