read more at FCW.com
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
OMB says agencies must boost competition in contracting
Civilian agencies must draw up acquisition workforce strategies and consider new ways to promote more competitions in their contracts, according to two memos the Office of Management and Budget released today...
OMB contracting guidance expected to be released this week
Contracting guidance that the Office of Management and Budget is developing likely will be released within the next few days, sources toldGovernment Executive on Monday.
The Senate's contracting oversight subcommittee is holding a hearing on Wednesday to review the Obama administration's strategy for reforming government contracting...
Read more at Governement Executive govexec.com
Half of stimulus contract spending falls into risky categories
Despite the Obama administration's stated preference for competitively awarded, fixed-price contracts, at least $7.8 billion of the more than $16 billion in federal contracts awarded under the stimulus falls outside these categories, according to data posted on Recovery.gov...
Read more at Government Executive, govexec.com
Friday, October 23, 2009
Official: Despite budget cuts, NASA to continue spending on IT
10/22/2009
A top NASA official told a House panel on Thursday that information technology was a high priority, signaling that IT opportunities most likely will survive deep budget cuts at the space agency.
Human exploration beyond Earth, including planned missions to the Moon, is not affordable under NASA's fiscal 2010 budget, according to an independent review of the human space flight program released on Thursday. The review was led by Norman Augustine, former chief executive officer of Lockheed Martin Corp., who served on the President's Council of Advisors on Science and Technology during Democratic and Republican administrations.
http://www.nextgov.com/nextgov/ng_20091022_5071.php?oref=rss
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
DOD finds knowledge management a tricky fit The discipline runs into problems when operations are compartmentalized
As much as Defense Department officials like the idea of knowledge management, they are finding the discipline often does not fit easily into their daily operations.
The goal of knowledge management is to develop organizational strategies for culling and disseminating information, experience and insight and administration. The problem is that DOD has compartmentalized operations, security worries and other distinctive needs and finds itself having to deal with knowledge management.
Read more at FCW.com:
http://fcw.com/articles/2009/10/16/dod-knowledge-management.aspx?s=fcwdaily_191009
The Cyber/IT Workforce's Bright Future
One of the most enjoyable events I get to participate in is the DON Workforce Town Hall, which we host twice a year during the DON Information Management/Information Technology conferences in San Diego and Virginia Beach.
This session allows me to directly engage with the Cyber/IT Workforce and hear their concerns, whatever they may be. As a matter of fact, I have a few regulars who tee up important questions that I do my best to answer
This session allows me to directly engage with the Cyber/IT Workforce and hear their concerns, whatever they may be. As a matter of fact, I have a few regulars who tee up important questions that I do my best to answer
Read more at the Navy CIO Blog:
Public CIOs' Role Shifting to Leader
When it comes to leadership, there's nothing like a humble beginning. Take the example of Teri Takai, California's CIO and one of the country's leading IT executives in government. Just about everybody agrees that Takai has burnished the CIO's role as a leader in the public sector. Yet at the start of her career, she was a duck out of water when it came to leadership...
Read more at Government Technology, Govtech.com
Wednesday, October 14, 2009
GSA Is Designing the Next Generation of USA.gov
In recent years, the web portal, USA.GOV has become one of the most popular destinations in the federal government's web presence. But now, the site's managers are plotting the "next generation" of the site, at a time when social collaboration tools are reshaping the way that people use the World Wide Web.
Read more at Federal News Radio.com
Agencies late on guidance for insourcing, GAO says
Several departments and an agency have missed a deadline for issuing guidelines on taking work back in-house and away from contractors, according to a letter from the Government Accountability Office issued today.
GAO was checking on whether the departments and the agency had issued any guidelines as the fiscal 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act required. The law gave government organizations until mid-July to get out the guidance on "insourcing."
According to the letter, the Health and Human Services, Justice, Transportation, and Veterans Affairs departments and the General Services Administration have not drafted the guidelines...
Read more at FCW.com
New NASA CIO and Technology
Linda Cureton supports social media as a tool to help employees.
For Linda Cureton, the new chief information officer for NASA, the role of technology at federal agencies is simple: It is an enabler for business missions.
Cureton’s support for using social-media tools in government follows that basic principle, said Emma Antunes, Web manager at Goddard Space Flight Center, where Cureton was CIO before her new appointment. Antunes also is project manager for Spacebook, a Facebook-like tool designed for internal collaboration...
Read more at FCW.com
http://fcw.com/articles/2009/09/28/week-cureton-nasa-cio.aspx?s=fcwdaily_081009
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