5:39 am, May 23, 2013
Department of Commerce 
Top News
- Data breach puts DHS workers at risk of ID theft
- DoD to pursue commercial alternative to VA's VistA system
- Obama to nominate Tangherlini as GSA administrator
- PHOTOS: Meet the 2013 Service to America Medal Finalists
- House GOP panel moves on deep budget cuts
- OMB fuels synergy between mobile, open data
- IRS official Lerner: 'I did nothing wrong'
- OMB reworking financial system requirements to focus on outcomes, not inputs
- Retirement funds temporarily tapped to avoid debt limit default
- VanRoekel to lead OMB management team
- SBA starting new lending program for veterans
- New Apple devices cleared to join DoD IT networks
- Bonuses under fire at GSA, other agencies
- Wednesday federal headlines - May 22, 2013
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All Commerce News
- OMB reworking financial system requirements to focus on outcomes, not inputs
- Obama nominates Pritzker, Froman for economic jobs
- New security standard to boost agency trust, use of mobile devices
- USDA seeks authority to transfer funds to offset sequestration cuts
- Acting commerce secretary leaving administration
- Inside the Reporter's Notebook: Barry West returns, two CIOs leaving, Einstein cyber initiative faces delay
- Commerce considering managed service to fix cyber weakness
Census Bureau
- Federal Drive Interviews -- Jan. 4, 2013
- Census to offer Internet option in gov't surveys
- IT Innovation in the New Era of Government
- Census managers, employees take backseat-driver role in reorg
- Census asks employees to grade themselves to cut costs
- Groves envisions future censuses to be cheaper, more mobile
- 2010 census missed more than 1.5M minorities
NIST
- Identity management in a dynamic federal landscape
- NIST, industry begin journey to develop cyber framework
- White House employs cross-agency goals to broaden oversight of cyber
- How to secure mobile devices at your agency
- DHS, NIST lynchpins helping cyber order succeed
- White House issues cyber order, giving NIST, DHS lead roles
- Agencies slowly knocking down cybersecurity barriers to going mobile
NOAA
- NOAA plowing through the growing, complex challenges CIOs face
- NOAA plans for 4 furlough days, begins talking to unions
- NWS ramps up to track Post-tropical Cyclone Sandy
- Federal Drive interviews - Oct. 12, 2012
- Washington Monument didn't sink after earthquake
- NWS could furlough 5,000 employees to cover budget shortfall
- Shared services is new 'default' for federal CIOs
National Weather Service
- Federal Drive Interviews -- Oct. 30, 2012
- NWS ramps up to track Post-tropical Cyclone Sandy
- The nuts and bolts of the sequester
- NWS could furlough 5,000 employees to cover budget shortfall
- Say goodbye to inaccurate weather forecasts?
- The Great Washington Shakeup
- Storms kill 1, leave thousands without power in Va.
USPTO
- Unions frustrated by slow-roll of some labor-management forums
- Smithsonian to reopen 1 of Mall's oldest buildings
- PTO head Kappos stepping down
- 'Give it a rest,' USPTO chief tells patent critics
- Telework helps PTO employees stay productive through Sandy
- NYC campus gets US patent officer
- PTO changes the way it invests in IT systems
