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New mobile tools gives agencies ‘giant innovation permission slip'

On the one-year anniversary of the Digital Government Strategy, OMB highlighted the progress being made to make agency information and systems device-agnostic. Federal CIO Steve VanRoekel says mobile is the new default platform.

VA chipping away at oldest disability claims in backlog

All veterans who have waited two years or more for a decision will have their cases decided by next month, the Department of Veterans Affairs told Congress. Half of the Veterans Benefits Administration's oldest cases already have been removed from the backlog.

Congress pressures agencies to speed up office consolidations

Lawmakers want to know why the Nuclear Regulatory Commission spent millions of dollars to renovate office space it may never use.

Furlough Friday: Multiple agencies take advantage of holiday weekend

The Department of Housing and Urban Development, Internal Revenue Service, Office of Management and Budget and the Environmental Protection Agency will all shut down Friday because of widespread employee furloughs — giving feds a four-day holiday weekend. The Labor and Interior Departments also are telling employees to stay home.

Quote of the Day

left quotation marksI think this path, frankly, has a higher chance of success than if we tried to force ourselves together into a single solution and negotiate every single detail of that. I think that's a very difficult path to tread.right quotation marks

-- Frank Kendall
Under Secretary of Defense
- on DoD's decision to pursue a commercial e-health records solution

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