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President Barack Obama announced Tuesday he is combining White House staffs dealing with international and homeland security, predicting the change will make Americans safer. The Associated Press is reporting, Obama also is creating a new office intended to communicate more effectively with other countries about U.S. security policy. The Homeland Security Council, created after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, will be kept as a venue for discussing issues concerning domestic security, including terrorism, weapons of mass destruction, natural disasters and pandemic influenza. Its staff will be integrated into the National Security Council.
May 26, 2009 -
I’ll be on DC’s NewsChannel 8 in the 7:30p ET half-hour — their Federal News Tonight program — and I’ll be talking about (what else) transparency. They stream the show live… and I’ll post the…
May 26, 2009 -
Significant milestones for the Obama transparency initiative. And a lot of good stuff out there to read about it. The DorobekInsider “reader” series try to pull the best of those links together in one place.…
May 22, 2009 -
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.
May 22, 2009 -
Very quickly, federal CIO Vivek Kundra has managed to get Data.gov up — it launched today. I have just started looking at it, but… here is what they say about it themselves… Welcome to Data.gov…
May 21, 2009 -
The White House Office of Science and Technology Policy today posted what amounts to phase two of the Obama administration’s transparency initiative — essentially asking you for your ideas. The White House is creating a…
May 21, 2009 -
Lawmakers push for faster and more inclusive implementation of new air traffic control system. CTO nominee Chopra faces little scrutiny from committee.
May 20, 2009 -
Some predicted it would happen and it did. President Barack Obama says the detainee abuse photos he wants to prevent from being released are \"not really sensational\", but at the same time they could put U.S. troops at risk. So he\'s directed White House lawyers to fight the court-ordered release of the photos. He says he won\'t stand for abuse of prisoners. Just recently, White House said it would release the photos, citing little chance of defeating an ACLU challenge to have them released.
May 13, 2009 -
We’ve been tracking how Recovery.gov ’s National Dialogue has been going — this is the innovative experiment to ask people to help solve the vexing issue of ensuring that there is transparency in the stimulus…
May 05, 2009 -
Last weekend, President Obama used his weekend address to announce the chief performance officer and the Obama chief technology officer. This week, he was talking government reform. (BTW, reporters just love it when they find…
April 25, 2009 -
A big appointment for the Obama administration: It has been somewhat known but it is all but official — Frank DiGiammarino is moving to the White House. Starting next month, he will be the Deputy…
April 24, 2009 -
I’m up early this morning to attend the monthly breakfast gathering for AFCEA International’s Bethesda, MD chapter — and it’s a good one this morning. I expect a packed house as Vivek Kundra, the federal…
April 23, 2009 -
One of the more vexing issues right now is transparency and the recovery program, and I keep pointing out that this is all unprecedented. There has arguably never been this level of transparency on this…
April 22, 2009 -
The Obama administration’s announcement late Friday — and officially made on Saturday — of the OMB deputy director of management/chief performance officer as well as the much discussed Obama chief technology officer has been the…
April 20, 2009 -
Two presidential appointments designed to streamline government.
April 20, 2009