Vendor past performance data not up to par
Agencies making contract awards without fully understanding the contractor's past successes or failures. GAO makes six recommendations to improve and standardize the information.
OMB reveals transparency roadmap
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.
Retired Marine Corps General likely pick for NASA head
Pick is also former astronaut and likely to meet with the President on Monday.
Back to the future
Its back to the future for the American space program. NASA is currently testing the next-generation Orion spacecraft, designed replace the space shuttle. If the cone shape looks familiar, its because its almost identical to the Apollo lunar modules. The Orion is now being tested at the Navy's Surface Warfare Center in Bethesda, Maryland. And instead of landing like a shuttle, Orion will splash down like Apollo. I'm Max Cacas
OFPP trying to stem the use of cost-plus contracting
Cost-type contracts nearly double over the last eight years.
NASA Goddard
Linda Cureton,
CIO, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
March 26, 2009
Web 2.0 'flood gates to open' with GSA's agreements
Agency sets sights on next set of standard terms of service with providers
NASA streaming an astronaut's view
NASA is offering streaming video of Earth and the outside of the station from cameras mounted on the laboratory complex.
A summary of spending proposals
A summary of spending proposals from the Obama administration
DoD, students provide a glimpse of the future
One approach DoD and many other agencies are using to address the impending retirement wave is by attracting high school students through the Chief Information Officer Council's Information Technology Job Shadow Day.
Agencies grasp onto IT optimization
Several contracts on way to help consolidate, standardize




