Contractors lack skills to help agency modernize, Customs official says
Ken Ritchhart, Customs' IT chief, is urging IT workers to get retrained. What advice is he offering his prime contractors?
Move to Drupal means business on Capitol Hill
The House is transitioning to the Drupal open-source content management platform for its 520 websites.
Higginbottom picked as deputy director at OMB
More executive changes: Heather Higginbottom to be named deputy director at OMB, and GSA's Teresa Nasif moves to head senior executive service initiatives.
Ken Thibodeau retires from electronic archive development
Ken Thibodeau retired from the National Archives and Records Administration on Jan. 1 after 25 years in the federal government.
World Bank holds apps contest; NIH uses texts, Facebook for weight loss
Judging for the World Bank's innovation competition will start Jan. 31, and the National Institutes of Health is conducting clinical trials using social media and mobile devices for weight loss.
SBInet contract gets another 30 day extension
The SBInet electronic border surveillance system under construction in Arizona is getting another 30-day extension.
Sen. Coburn knocks paying to digitize the Grateful Dead, create wolf avatars
The Oklahoma Republican rips a few IT-related projects in his "Wastebook 2010" list of alleged wasteful spending.
Federal shutdown a possibility
The federal government's money runs out at midnight Dec. 18 unless the Senate takes quick action.
So much for open government, Navy shutters public blog
The Navy CIO blog has been stopped, and archived posts are no longer available on the site.
Tougher contractor ethics rule under consideration
The Administrative Conference of the United States is back in business as a federal advisory body, and one of its first agenda items is a draft proposal on federal contractor ethics.
White House has a new wiki; NARA, SSA start social media projects
Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra said a new wiki for the ExpertNet project was created as a model for public participation.
Former FBI cybersecurity exec joins Mandiant
Retired FBI official Scott O'Neal joins the IT security firm to head its federal business practice.
DC region had 293,000 IT jobs in 2009, study says
The Washington, D.C. metropolitan area ranks third in high-paying IT positions, according to a TechAmerica Foundation study.
Avoid WikiLeaks, White House tells contractors and employees
The Office of Management and Budget is informing federal contractors and employers that unless they have the appropriate authorizations they must not view the WikiLeaks documents. But reading news stories about the leaked cables is OK, OMB says.
VA pilot tests accelerating medical records processing
The VA is using a private firm in a demonstration project to see if it can reduce the time it takes to obtain veterans' medical records from non-VA doctors.
Lockheed agrees to settle Deepwater False Claims lawsuit
A whistle-blower and Lockheed Martin have signed a settlement for an undisclosed amount, but the fight with Northrop Grumman continues.
Tighter controls save VA more than $1B
While questioning some IT programs, VA Inspector General George Opfer said his office's efforts had resulted in $1.2 billion in savings, avoided costs and other monetary benefits.
Cass Sunstein remembers a special date
The administrator of the White House's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs shared a special personal memory in his keynote speech at the Brookings Institution.
White House promises major changes to IT management
The federal government is doing a major rehab on how it oversees and manages the $70 billion in annual IT spending.
On Thanksgiving, fed IT leaders count their blessings
We asked your colleagues what they're thankful for this Thanksgiving.
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