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Federal Eye: Government probing thousands of stimulus complaints

The Obama administration’s economic recovery program has triggered more than 1,700 fraud complaints since it launched last year, according to a new report. The Recovery Accountability and Transparency Board and federal inspectors general are investigating 147 of those allegations and federal prosecutors have opened investigations into 43 cases, the RAT Board said in its quarterlyRead… Read more »

The Future of Federal IT Spending

(Note this Blog is written by Rick Marcotte, CEO of DLT Solutions and comes from blogs.dlt.com) A recently published and well-read blog in this sector recently disclosed that government contractors surveyed by Grant Thornton LLP experienced revenue boosts from federal business during the past year. Here are a couple of thoughts on why that mightRead… Read more »

OFCCP Audits: How Will You Answer the Outreach to Veterans and Persons with Disabilities Questions?

(Originally posted on www.HireMilitary.com on March 5, 2010) I’ve recently come across some LinkedIn discussions, blogs and articles on Office of Federal Contract Compliance Programs (OFCCP) audits. The one thing that seems to be catching HR professionals by surprise during the audits is the OFCCP’s interest in their company’s demonstrated outreach to veterans and personsRead… Read more »

March Madness!!!

Greetings from the Hokie Guru… been a while since I’ve posted here… and I’m in this Executve Master of Public Policy graduate education program at Georgetown University (for Inspector General personnel… you can see more about our mission right here)… it’s taking quite a bit of my time. you can see the curriculum right here.Read… Read more »

How-To: Grab Video and Audio from the Web

Update (3/15/2010): I just found this simple little bookmarklet that makes it dead simple to download any YouTube video. Additionally, there’s another post here on GovLoop that links to what someone intends to be the definitive guide to YouTube with a lot of download options, software, and many other things.________________________________________I’m prefacing this post with theRead… Read more »

Gov 2.0 Roundup (March 12 Edition)

The State Department visualizes data, the FBI has an app for that, the First Lady offers prizes to get kids moving, and the Department of Homeland Security sniffs out a unique mobile application, all in this week’s version of the Rock Creek Roundup. –Earlier this week, the State Department, in conjunction with the University ofRead… Read more »

Know Your Hypervisor

Virtualization is very much on the minds of IT managers this year. Some have the vision of a low power, smoothly running, optimized data center; thinly staffed but capable of provisioning new users almost instantaneously (AKA ‘Nirvana’). Others see the nightmare of single points of (hardware) failure bringing down an entire agency, virtual machines migratingRead… Read more »

This article is for information purposes only

I read this interesting article this morning by Gerry McGovern about some ‘protective’ (my description) thinking behind most web pages. I was wondering if you see this as true for web pages published by your government agency. One would hope that government agencies publish actionable information. Do you think this is more of a concernRead… Read more »