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- Senators push Tangherlini for assurances GSA is improving
- Contractors with security clearances lack path to report problems
- Senator: IRS to pay $70M in employee bonuses
- Furlough song: Laugh or you'll cry
- Navy strikes enterprise licensing deal with Oracle
- 8 contract executives guilty of 8(a) contracting fraud
- Whistleblower suit leads to $12M false claims settlement by SAIC
- 29-year-old NASA engineer going where no one has gone before
- USPS reaches energy reduction goal ahead of schedule
- NOAA meteorologist helps save lives one storm at a time
- NASA picks 8 new astronauts, 4 of them women
- House passes sweeping $638 billion defense bill
- NIH tops list of best companies for baby boomers
- Latest postal reform proposal OKs 5-day delivery
Public procurement field gets first standards of practice
The National Institute of Government Procurement is proposing professional guidelines for the public procurement field.
Gov innovation requires optimism, failing in small ways
IDEO's Fred Dust discusses some of the findings from its government innovation report conducted with the Partnership for Public Service.
GobiernoUSA.gov offers lessons for online Latino outreach
Laura Godfrey, manager of GoviernoUSA.gov, explains best practices for reaching out to Latinos online.
Secrets to gov programs that work
The Center for American Progress' Jitinder Kohli shares the center's new report on how to design successful government programs.
U.K. offers model of regulation reform
The Center for American Progress' Jitinder Kohli explains how he helped the initiative to cut billions in the U.K. government.
Plain writing award open for 2011
Sure, Johnny Fed can read, but if it's not written clearly, there's room for misunderstanding. The Center for Plain Language's Dr. Annetta Cheek, tells us about this year's awards for writing.
Conficker confounds federal computers too
When it comes to Conficker, what are the lessons learned and how can the public and private sectors work together to defeat it? We ask Neustar's Rod Joffe.
DoD hoping for shorter GAO High Risk List
The Defense Department's leader of business process reform said Friday that she's hopeful the Government Accountability Office will remove one of DoD's high risk areas from its biennial list of government trouble spots. GAO is expected to issue the list within the next several weeks.
Agency Tip 1: Get out the message
Part of "The Need for the Next Generation" special report, GAO explains how the watchdog agency re-imagined its brand and recruiting methods to become a highly competitive agency for young people to work for.
City of Copenhagen shares info with idea map
The city of Copenhagen's Tine Malm shares how the idea map allows citizens to offers suggestions to the local government.
How to innovate in a radical (but not crazy) way
Bill Taylor, author of Practically Radical, explains how to bring innovative ideas to the workplace.
CDW report: Agencies adopt green gov to reduce IT energy use
CDW-G's Andy Lausch discusses the findings of a report on green government initiative metrics for IT.
Report: Keeping Talent key to future success
Agencies spend significant time and resources recruiting and training top talent but a new study warns that many are ignoring the other crucial side of the equation - keeping those employees. Booz Allen's Ron Sanders explains.
DISA's BRAC move to Ft. Meade underway
As DISA heads north for the Maryland border, we get an update from Director for Manpower, Personnel and Security, Jack Penkoske.
Study: Agencies should work harder to keep employees
A new report warns that agencies need to focus on employee retention as Congress threatens pay and hiring freezes. Agency leaders and line managers must work together to maintain their workforces.
CPSC database to make complaints transparent
With the new database available in March, consumers can easily go online to SaferProducts.gov and report a complaint about an unsafe product or conduct a background check on a product's safety by examining reports of consumers' complaints. We get details from CPSC's Scott Wolfson.
Taxpayer Advocate: IRS must address new health care laws
The most serious problem facing taxpayers and the IRS is a shared one. Taxpayer advocate Nina Olson has details.
Data leaks happen - then what?
If agencies can't eliminate data loss, surely there has to be something that can be done to minimize it? We ask Neustar's Rodney Joffe.
