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Changes to federal cookie policy facing legislative hurdle?
White House says provision in financial services bill not a problem. Administration not taken any steps to work with Congress on changes to the law.
Tags: technology , Aneesh Chopra , Rick Weiss , OMB , Senate Appropriations Committee , Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board , health IT , Smart Grid , Federal cookie policy , research and development , cybersecurity
Senate confirms federal CTO Chopra, several others before break
Tags: management , Aneesh Chopra , Priscilla Guthrie , Randolph Babbitt , John Pocari , Peter Rogoff , Seth Harris , ODNI , DOT , FAA , FTA , White House , Senate , Labor
Federal R&D efforts could get boost
NSF, NIST and Energy continue to receive increases on way to doubling budget by 2017. Overall, R&D across government increases only slightly. OSTP will create a dashboard to measure effectiveness of federal R&D efforts.
Tags: technology , John Holdren , Aneesh Chopra , White House , NASA , NSF , Energy , NIST , USDA , Education , Smithsonian , research and development , R&D dashboard , budget , FY 2011 budget
Wolf: Answers needed in OSTP China meeting
Rep. Frank Wolf (R-Va.) wants answers from Attorney General Eric Holder.
Tags: Frank Wolf , GAO , John Holdren , China , In Depth
White House launches 4-pillar smart grid plan
The Obama administration released its policy framework for modernizing the nation's electric grid Monday. As has been the case in national strategies on other topics the White House has released recently, the administration wants the federal government to emphasize its role as a facilitator and standards author rather than a regulator.
Tags: White House , technology , cybersecurity , industry , Smart Grid , John Holdren , Nancy Sutley , Department of Energy , Stephen Chu , Jared Serbu
OMB freezes new .gov websites
Federal CIO Vivek Kundra will develop policy and guidance to improve how agencies manage their websites.
Tags: technology , Jeff Zients , OMB , GSA , websites , customer service , .gov domain , executive order , Jason Miller
How contests can help agencies do more with less
Incentives, contests, and challenges are being used by the federal government to help solve a multitude of problems. Robynn Sturm, Assistant to the Deputy Director in the White House's Office of Science and Technology Policy, discusses why this method is so successful.
February 1, 2011
Tags: Robynn Sturm , technology , Challenge.gov , John Gilroy , Federal Tech Talk
OSTP loses another deputy CTO
Beth Noveck returns to New York Law School after spending two years at deputy chief technology officer for open government. She focused on the White House's transparency initiative.
Tags: technology , management , Beth Noveck , Andrew McLaughlin , Phil Larson , New York Law School , open government , transparency , Jason Miller
Congress gives NIST a clear set of priorities
The America Competes Reauthorization Act authorizes the agency's programs and sets a path toward the future. President Obama signed the bill into law Tuesday. Several other science and technology agencies receive marching orders from lawmakers.
Tags: technology , management , Patrick Gallagher , John Holdren , NIST , Energy , NSF , America Competes Act , challenges , cybersecurity , cloud computing , Jason Miller
OMB wants to bring expert help to agencies
The White House and the Office of Science and Technology Policy issued an RFI on how to develop a new platform called Expert-net to solicit ideas for solving mission-critical problems.
Tags: technology , management , Aneesh Chopra , Shelley Metzenbaum , OMB , GSA , Web 2.0 , crowd sourcing , Challenge.gov , Jason Miller
