Sen. Scott Brown (R-Mass.), who campaigned on the idea of freezing federal worker salaries to control the deficit, may get to explore the topic further soon. Senate Republicans announced on Tuesday that Brown will join the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs committee, and also the Armed Services and Veterans Affairs committees. The Homeland Security andRead… Read more »
The National Inventory of Legal Materials: A Call to Action is now available; per @evwayne, it “offers guidance and suggestions for creating the inventory,” which is a component of the Law.gov legal open government data project. Click here to learn more about the National Inventory. Click here to learn more about the Law.gov project.
Kevin Kelly is one of those old-time Internet institutions. He’s the founding executive editor of Wired magazine and a former editor/publisher of the Whole Earth Catalog. His Cool Tools blog is one I follow regularly through the RSS feed. I was recently referred, however, to his Technium blog and the post “The Game-ified Life”. InRead… Read more »
While I have known about this partnership for a while it was great to see INgage Networks and Michigan State University announce their partnership yesterday. I asked Kim Kobza, CEO of INgage Networks, how the projects will be selected and how they will decide success, here is what he shared: “As part of our agreementRead… Read more »
From The Acquisition Corner Recent testimony by Steve Schooner, co-director of The George Washington University’s Government Procurement Law Program, and others before the House Armed Services Committee’s Defense Acquisition Reform Panel, helped paint the picture and made valid points about how the media portrays the federal acquisition environment and the current state it is in.Read… Read more »
The $66 million dollars pledged by local Federal workers broke CFCNCA fundraising records. The Washington Post and the Federal Times covered the announcement that the campaign exceeded the 2009 fundraising goal of $64 million by $2 million dollars. A special thank you ran on page 5 of the February 23 edition of the Washington PostRead… Read more »
The U.S. Postal Service issued a worst-case scenario cry for help on Tuesday, anticipating $238 billion in losses in the next 10 years if lawmakers, postal regulators and unions don’t give the mail agency more flexibility in setting delivery schedules, price increases and labor costs. The estimates released Tuesday also predict that letter carriers willRead… Read more »
Happy Tuesday! Defense Secretary Robert M. Gates has reorganized the Pentagon’s line of succession, reverting back to a pre-Rumsfeld pecking order that emphasizes civilian service chiefs and adds new positions. President Obama issued an executive order Monday that restocks the order this way in the event that Gates dies or is otherwise unable to serve:Read… Read more »
In the days since my last post, William J. Lynne, Deputy Secretary of Defense, signed a policy memorandum covering the use of internet-based capabilities — including social media. Because of this memo, I listened to a blogtalkradio broadcast of an interview with Price Floyd, Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. During his interview, IRead… Read more »
More from Andrea Di Maio/Gartner: http://blogs.gartner.com/andrea_dimaio/2010/03/01/five-not-so-serious-proposals-to-make-open-government-cooler/ Open Government Idol. A group of citizen-developers perform in a coding contest which is broadcasted on several media. Besides programming, contestants are expected to read or sing their lines of code aloud. Audience can vote for the best coder based on a combination of usefulness of applications, choice ofRead… Read more »