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Agencies gravitate to low-cost contests as Challenge.gov celebrates its first birthday

In its first year, the website Challenge.gov let agencies add public contests as a low-cost way to find innovative solutions to their problems. Officials at the General Services Administration, which runs the site, say challenges offer a lower-cost alternative to procurement or grants and speak to a different audience. GSA would like to see challenges standardized across the government in the coming year — but worry that the site may lose funding.

Tags: management , David McClure , Kathy Conrad , robynn sturm-steffen , GSA , Challenge.gov , technology , innovation , Emily Kopp

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Federal e-customers get satisfaction

After a slow start and a small drop in the first quarter of 2009, e-government satisfaction reaches an all-time high.

Tags: mngt , American Customer Satisfaction Index , ForeSee Results , Larry Freed ,

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More Reaction to Kundra at OMB

Tags: OMB , President Obama , Vivek Kundra

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Kundra Could be E-Gov Administrator 2

Tags: OMB , information technology , CTO , Vivek Kundra , Washington, D.C. , KPMG , Mark Forman , Industry Advisory Council

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Ask the CIO Preview-Evans Part 2

Tags: JM , OMB , information technology , CIO , Karen Evans ,

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How will the administration meet citizens' needs?

Engage, listen, respond, new study says

Tags: mngt , Accenture , Obama administration , Greg Parston , citizen services , Tracking the Transition

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Analysis: Impact of e-gov fund cuts

Next on the Federal Drive, 6-10 a.m. * Here we go again - the countdown to shutdown is underway. Congress has less time than you think to come to a compromise. * Find out about the new National Center for The Veteran Institute for Procurement, and how it helps small veteran-owned businesses land federal deals. Be sure to check out these interviews and more on the next edition of the [14]Federal Drive, weekdays from 6-10 a.m.

Tags: Mark Forman , technology , budget , In Depth

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E-gov funds on the budget chopping block?

Former E-gov administrator Karen Evans is here to tell you what might stay, what might go, and who it would affect if this cut gets passed.

Tags: Karen Evans , budget , Congress , In Depth , technology

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EXCLUSIVE: OMB uses budget to set cyber deadlines

Federal News Radio has obtained exclusive details on the IT budget guidance OMB sent to agencies for the fiscal 2012 budget request. The administration is asking agencies to begin using monitoring their networks continuously by the end of next year. OMB also sets deadlines for cyberscope, IPv6 and funding of e-government projects.

Tags: technology , management , Vivek Kundra , OMB , IT budget , cloud computing , cybersecurity , Cyberscope , IPv6 , Jason Miller

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Satisfaction high for e-gov sites

Foresee Results' Larry Freed shares the results from the citizen satisfaction survey.

Tags: Government Results Archive , Larry Freed , ForeSee Results , Gov 2.0 , technology , Dorobek Insider

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