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From Government Computer News: White House marks digital gov strategy’s first milestones
8/27/12 9:58 AM
From Government Computer News: Federal agencies are making “great strides” toward meeting President Barack Obama’s May 23 directive, “Building a 21st Century Digital Government” during the next year, Federal CIO Steven VanRoekel said in marking the first quarterly anniversary of the initiative.
From Information Week: White House Innovation Fellows Tackle Federal IT Projects
8/24/12 9:51 AM
From Information Week: The White House Wednesday named a group of 18 Presidential Innovation Fellows to work for the next six months on five "high impact" federal IT projects, including one that will allow for easy download of personal healthcare information from the Internet and another that aims to make it easier for government to do business with start-ups.
From Information Week: Apple, Feds Ink E-Book Deal
8/23/12 10:07 AM
From Information Week: The federal government is adding Apple to a list of companies that offer e-book versions of federal government documents, and Apple is now offering on itunes everything from the federal budget to the 9/11 Commission's report.
From Government Computer News: USDA expects to manage 100,000 mobile devices
8/22/12 10:59 AM
From Government Computer News: Expecting the use of on-the-job mobile devices to explode in the coming years, the Agriculture Department has put out a call for an end-to-end mobility solution.
From Washington Technology: Who had 2012's 10 best government projects?
8/21/12 10:04 AM
From Washington Technology: Ten federal information technology projects have won IT achievement awards from Washington Technology’s sister publication, GCN.
From Washington Technology: Five Top 100 win $489M contract to manage chemical weapons
8/20/12 10:00 AM
From Washington Technology: Five companies will vie for task orders under a $489 million contract to help manage chemical weapons.
From Government Executive: Federal program reviews are superficial, Hill and agency veterans say
8/17/12 10:11 AM
From Government Executive: The federal government has become “very top-down” in its management style and uses data and expertise more to confirm leaders’ preplanned policies than to design “intelligent” ones, a new report says.
From FederalNewsRadio.com: Treasury tackles IT reviews in a new way
8/16/12 11:31 AM
From FederalNewsRadio.com: The Treasury Department is bucking the trend in how agencies are using the TechStat review process.
Veterans Affairs Dept. under investigation
8/15/12 10:02 AM
Questions are raised over the Veterans Affairs' conference spending.

From FederalNewsRadio.com: Three contractors vie to build next generation of DoD trucks
8/24/12 9:54 AM
From FederalNewsRadio.com: The Defense Department has awarded three companies the chance to build a new generation of trucks. They'll partially replace the aging Humvees.
Federal Times: Virginia’s defense contractors have most to lose under sequestration
8/23/12 10:13 AM
Federal Times: Virginia, California and Texas stand to lose the most money in defense contracts under across-the-board budget cuts scheduled to take effect Jan. 2, a new report shows.
From Federal Computer Week: DHS considers rule change to protect subcontractors
8/22/12 11:02 AM
From Federal Computer Week: Homeland Security Department officials may retool some of their rules to avoid a bonanza for prime contractors at the expense of their subcontractors.
From FederalNewsRadio.com: Obama says military budget deal unlikely by November
8/21/12 10:06 AM
President Barack Obama says he doesn't believe Congress can reach a deal before the November elections that avoids deep cuts in military spending, but says he is optimistic that the reductions won't occur.
Executive Compensation within Federal Contractors Under Scrutiny
8/20/12 3:19 PM
As elected officials look to reduce federal spending, executive compensation within federal contractors has again come under scrutiny. For this year, the ceiling that the government will reimburse towards an executive’s compensation is $763,000.
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From Government Computer News: 10 agency IT projects take 2012 GCN Awards
8/20/12 9:58 AM
From Government Computer News: Ten government IT projects showing ingenuity in connecting citizens with government as well as creative ways of meeting the growing demand for information-sharing tactics and tools have been named winners of the 2012 GCN Awards for IT achievement.
From FederalNewsRadio.com: NASA reveals how it revived a struggling program
8/17/12 10:08 AM
This story is part of the special report Inside TechStat.
From GCN: DOD plans massive database of human research
8/16/12 11:13 AM
From Government Contracting News: A Defense Department initiative on medical research is looking to solve a problem shared by a lot of government agencies -- how to make use of the vast amounts of data generated by its programs.
D.C. area could see recession with sequestration
8/15/12 9:57 AM
From WTOP: Stephen Fuller, director of the Center for Regional Analysis at George Mason University, says the D.C. region would be greatly impacted by sequestration mainly because of the federal payroll and procurement dollars Maryland, Virginia and D.C. receive from the federal government.

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