Agencies making contract awards without fully understanding the contractor\'s past successes or failures. GAO makes six recommendations to improve and standardize the information.
NASA was recently named as one of the Best Places to Work in the federal government by the recently released Best Places to Work Survey. That was published by the Partnership for Public Service earlier…
New site, Data.gov, to grow to about 240,000 datasets over the next month. Federal CIO Vivek Kundra says the public should direct what information is made available.
Pick is also former astronaut and likely to meet with the President on Monday.
Space Shuttle Atlantis blasted off earlier this week on its final trip to the Hubble Space Telescope. Commander John Herrington is a former NASA astronaut. He got a behind-the-scenes look at preparations for the Hubble…
Its back to the future for the American space program. NASA is currently testing the next-generation Orion spacecraft, designed replace the space shuttle. If the cone shape looks familiar, its because its almost identical to the Apollo lunar modules. The Orion is now being tested at the Navy\'s Surface Warfare Center in Bethesda, Maryland. And instead of landing like a shuttle, Orion will splash down like Apollo. I\'m Max Cacas
Cost-type contracts nearly double over the last eight years.
In the past few months, we’ve heard multiple stories about space debris causing a ruckus in outer space. Space junk almost hit the International Space Station last month and it was just over two months…
Agency sets sights on next set of standard terms of service with providers
NASA is offering streaming video of Earth and the outside of the station from cameras mounted on the laboratory complex.
A summary of spending proposals from the Obama administration
One approach DoD and many other agencies are using to address the impending retirement wave is by attracting high school students through the Chief Information Officer Council\'s Information Technology Job Shadow Day.
The latest Space Shuttle Mission was called STS-126. The commander of that mission was Chris Ferguson. He and his crew have been making history, both in space and here on Earth. Commander Ferguson updated us…