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White House wants to root out copycat programs - starting with STEM
The Obama administration's proposed fiscal 2014 budget called for consolidating or eliminating 116 of the government's 226 STEM initiatives and centralizing the coordination of STEM programs under just three agencies: the Education Department, the National Science Foundation and the Smithsonian Institution. The administration's STEM proposal is one of the government's first visible steps in reversing some of the duplication that riddles the federal landscape and which some lawmakers have seized on as examples of government waste.
Tags: Senate , Senate Budget Committee , Task Force on Government Performance , Mark Warner , Kelly Ayotte , John Holdren , STEM , duplicative programs , Jack Moore
White House to mandate machine-readable open data
The guidance is two months late, but OMB is expected to issue it in early 2013. Todd Park, the federal CTO, said the White House also is updating the Data.gov platform and expanding the approach to healthcare data to other sectors.
Tags: technology , open government , Todd Park , Steve VanRoekel , OMB , Innovation Fellows Program , Digital Management Strategy , data management , Blue Button initiative , healthcare data , Jason Miller
Federal CTO plans new networking tool to spur innovation
The Innovation Networking Project will supplement traditional, face-to-face, networking with the goal of connecting federal visionaries, Todd Park said. He hopes the end result will remove stovepipes that have prevented big thinkers from finding each other.
Tags: Todd Park , innovation , networking , Innovation Networking Project , Carmen Medina , Ruben Gomez , Govloop , Next Generation of Government Summit
Obama assigns new responsibilities for keeping government connected in case of emergency
In an executive order issued Friday, President Barack Obama laid out an all-hands-on-deck approach to developing policies for preserving government communications in the event of a national disaster or emergency. The order creates the Executive Committee on National Security and Emergency Preparedness Communications — or NS/EP communications — to be staffed with high-ranking officials from eight agencies and departments
Tags: DoD , DHS , emergency communications , Barack Obama , National Communications System
OSTP helping agencies take open gov to '2.0 level'
Chris Vein, the deputy chief technology officer for government innovation at OSTP, gives an update on how agencies have done in the past few years in carrying out their open government and transparency plans.
Tags: Chris Vein , technology , open government , Federal Drive
White House touts success of agency 'challenges'
Increasingly, agencies are using a tool at their disposal. Instead of issuing RFP's, they're issuing challenges. And according to a new report from the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy, agencies that have jumped on the challenge bandwagon have begun to "reap the rewards of well-designed prizes integrated into a broader innovation strategy."
Tags: Challenge.gov , challenges , Air Force Research Laboratory , HHS , GSA
White House, agencies commit $200M to solving 'big data' quandary
Federal technology leaders unveiled an initiative to develop better ways of harnessing the rapidly growing volume of increasingly complicated data sets, known as big data. The push is led by a joint solicitation — from the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health — to develop the core technologies for reigning in big data. All told, six federal departments and agencies will take part in the program — committing more than $200 million in research-and-development investments.
Tags: NIH , DoD , DARPA , Energy , USGS , NSF , John Holdren , Subra Suresh , Francis Collins , Marcia McNutt
Obama appoints Todd Park to federal CTO role
The White House announced today President Barack Obama will appoint Todd Park to serve as the next federal chief technology officer. Park most recently served at the CTO of the Health and Human Services Department and fills the slot vacated by Aneesh Chopra, who stepped down last month after three years in the position.
Tags: Todd Park , HHS , Aneesh Chopra , technology , people
OSTP wants help in making scientific data accessible
Under the America Competes Act, an interagency working group issued a RFI asking for input across 13 areas on how to ensure federally-funded research data is available for the long-term.
Tags: America Compete Act , data management , records management , industry , Jason Miller
New federal cookie policy coming soon?
Federal chief technology officer Aneesh Chopra says a 15-member working group is close to coming out with a report. It's been nearly six months since OMB ended the public comment period on whether to allow software to track users' habits.
Tags: technology , management , Aneesh Chopra , Dave McClure , Vivek Kundra , Cass Sunstein , OMB , OIRA , GSA , EPA , DHS , Education , Anil Dash , American Association for the Advancement of Scienc , open government , Federal cookie policy
