Now a new map from SBA and the U.S. Digital Service makes it easier to determine if a particular address qualifies as a HUBZone.
Read more about Alberto Colon-Viera & Mariana Pardo: New map helps identify HUBZones
In today's Federal Newscast, another high ranking defense official comes out against the creation of a new military branch to focus on space issues in the House's defense authorization bill.
Read more about Idea of new space branch for the military gets cold reception from defense leadership
Ed Harper, the Food and Nutrition Service’s director of the Office of Program Integrity for Child Nutrition Programs, worked with the Presidential Innovation Fellows to create a new online application prototype for free and reduced lunches.
Read more about Food and Nutrition Service relies on wisdom of the crowd for new online application
The House Appropriations Financial Services and General Government Subcommittee stayed quiet on federal pay in its 2018 bill. Without action from Congress, federal civilian employees would receive a 1.9 percent raise next fiscal year. The appropriations bill also includes significant spending cuts to key priorities at the General Services Administration and Office of Personnel Management.
Read more about Congress so far silent on civilian federal employee 2018 pay raise
In just over seven years, agencies have submitted more than 149,000 data sets to the data.gov portal. Of those, the Commerce and Interior departments account for more than 110,000 of them.
Read more about Modernizing the Citizen Journey through Data
The federal government may be a step behind industry when it comes to IT, but it's always the same step. It stays in the race, never quite catching up.
Read more about IT modernization opera: Same score, new conductor
Change is no fun, especially for people in an organization like the Technology Transformation Service.
Read more about Nothing like a reorg for a little fun
Industry experts reacted with optimism and surprise to the decision by the General Services Administration to merge the Technology Transformation Service into the Federal Acquisition Service.
Read more about ‘A punch to the gut’ is how some described the news of GSA’s most recent merger
New data shows agencies bought $120 million more worth of agile services in 2016 than in 2015 as part of the growing demand for these capabilities.
Read more about New platform tries to bring some normalcy to the agile craze
Rob Klopp spent two years as the Social Security Administration’s chief information officer and brought the agency into the modern technology era.
Read more about How an unexpected meeting with Obama induced Rob Klopp to begin modernizing SSA’s IT
After two sets of awards and more than 20 protests, the Homeland Security Department is going back to the drawing board with its FLASH small business vehicle.
Read more about DHS cancels $1.5B contract for agile services
The players have taken their seats. They're tuning their instruments. Now where's the Trump administration's IT conductor?
Read more about News flash: Obama and Trump agree on this $95B item
Digital transformation is a hot topic in the federal community. But what do CIOs mean by digital transformation? Does digital transformation mean IT modernization? Does it mean moving to the cloud? Does it mean changing business processes and doing all of the above?
Read more about Digital Transformation – The Consumerization of Government IT
President Donald Trump signed an executive order establishing the American Technology Council to transform and modernize the federal government’s information technology and how it uses and delivers digital services.
Read more about White House creates a second office to focus on federal IT
In this week's edition of On DoD, Peter Kim, the Air Force's chief technology officer, Alex Rice, the CTO at HackerOne, and Reina Staley, the chief of staff of the Defense Digital Service join is to talk about the latest of DoD's bug bounties: Hack the Air Force. We’ll also talk about changes in how the Army buys cloud computing services as part of a broader effort to shut down expensive, government-owned data centers.
Read more about In DoD first, Air Force launches bug bounty open to foreign hackers
