Defense Secretary Robert Gates and Joint Chief of Staff Chairman Adm. Mike Mullen signaled Thursday that he won’t let a pay raise for military service members derail this year’s Defense Authorization Bill. But Gates said he will “strongly recommend” that President Obama veto the Pentagon budget if it includes an extra engine for the JointRead… Read more »
The Australian Public Service (APS) Management Advisory Committee (MAC) last year commissioned a report on public sector innovation and what could be done to encourage innovation in the APS. That report, Empowering Change: Fostering Innovation in the Australian Public Service, has now been released. The report looks at the innovation ‘state of play’ in AustraliaRead… Read more »
Long time Drupal community member, Kieran Lal, will be on hand at Gov 2.0 conducing a session on Drupal for Open Government and Enterprise 2.0 Collaboration (internal collaboration). Kieran will cover: 1) What is Open Source and Why is it relevant to Open Government? 2) What is Drupal? 3) How are Government organizations using Drupal?Read… Read more »
I’m sure I’m not the only one anxiously waiting for the start of O’Reilly & TechWeb’s Gov 2.0 Expo next week. With such an expansive list of interesting sessions over three days, I thought it would be interesting to get program co-chairs Laurel Ruma and Dr. Mark Drapeau to share what they thought were “10Read… Read more »
Japanese scientists, engineers and financiers have already charted their course and set sail on the botanical city. Forget about that tall building in Dubai, and picture a 3,330 ft. tower and a vertical farm (complete with cornfields and a livestock ranch) floating on a concrete lilypad in the middle of the ocean. By the yearRead… Read more »
Coast Guard Commandant Adm. Thad W. Allen will continue to serve as President Obama’s point man on the Gulf Coast oil spill after he retires later this month, the administration said Thursday. Obama tapped Allen last month to serve as national incident commander when he labeled the spill an “incident of national significance.” Such incidentsRead… Read more »
We continue to have great deals, discounts, and freebies for GovLoop rockstars.-A few weeks back we had a 70% off coupon for restaurants.com This week – We have free passes to the OMG Cybersecurity forum in Arlington, VA on May 25-26. You can find out more about the event by clicking here to see theRead… Read more »
In honor of Public Service Recognition Week, GovLoop has teamed up with the Partnership for Public Service to promote your great work and give hardworking govies a little pick me up. As a way to say THANK YOU for your work as public servants, GovLoop has made this special arrangement with Restaurant.com to get youRead… Read more »
By The Post’s Federal Diary columnist Joe Davidson: The mix of government work done by federal employees and that done by outside contractors is out of balance, but the right balance doesn’t necessarily mean having those employees do more of the contractors’ work, the Obama administration planned to tell Congress Thursday. “While contractors play, andRead… Read more »
A great conversation is kicking off over in the “Google for Gov” group, where I asked “Do you worry about privacy issues when you’re using Google?” But it sparked a quick thought: Will genealogists be the new gold diggers? What I mean is that genealogists could make a killing by archiving and sculpting the digitalRead… Read more »