Kansas Governor Sam Brownback is rejecting a $31.5 million federal grant intended to support his state’s implementation of federal health care reform requirements. In an announcement Tuesday, the Governor cited the federal deficit as his reason for rejecting money the state applied for just last December. The money was supposed to support integration of stateRead… Read more »
Last year I started a series to highlight outrageous cases of waste, fraud, and abuse by the federal government. In the current environment of complete political theatre and legislative dysfunction leading to budget crises, debt ceilings, and continuous resolutions, I can probably write a book with so much material. However, I wanted to focus onRead… Read more »
This shouldn’t be considered a new idea or story by any stretch of the imagination but social networking sites like Facebook, Twitter and the newly launched Google+ are becoming increasingly popular frontiers for terrorist organizations. Classic cyberterrorism has always been associated with the large-scale disruption of computer networks and certain targeted websites being affected byRead… Read more »
The White House announced a new opportunity for the public to get involved with the Open Government Initiative. In a recent blog post, U.S. Chief Technology Officer, Aneesh Chopra and Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs Administrator, Cass Sunstein asked for public feedback “on ideas related to two of the key challenges – improving publicRead… Read more »
I just got this awesome email: Happy High-Five Friday! My name is Emerson Souza and I’m currently an intern at HUD for the Office of Healthy Homes and Lead Hazard Control. I was at the Next Generation of Government Summit with a few co-workers from my office. We all really enjoyed the entire conference, veryRead… Read more »
In snail mail times, published exposure was expensive and constrained. “Editing” was selecting the best offering and making sure it was centered on message. With social media, exposure is easy and infinite. “Editing” is delivering everything that might be interesting to your audience as quickly as possible. Underestimating audience interest is one of today’s mostRead… Read more »
Deltek Analyst Evan Halperin reports. Last week, the Virginia Information Technology Agency (VITA) issued a solicitation for its statewide two-way radio requirement. The solicitation was a re-compete of a contract that inked in 2006 and is set to expire this year. VITA awarded contracts to six vendors from the previous solicitation and had been planningRead… Read more »
Earlier this week, Federal CTO Aneesh Chopra and OIRA Administrator Cass Sunstein jointly released an inquiry about the future of open government… http://expertlabs.org
When an international hacker group broke into law enforcement agencies in 11 states last weekend and made sensitive personal information public, it caused a number of people, both within government and without, pause. The hacking collective AntiSec — a combination of Anonymous and LulzSec — hacked into Brooks-Jeffrey Marketing (BJM), an online marketing company thatRead… Read more »
Michele M. Leonhart, administrator of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA), has spent more than 30 years in law enforcement. As a DEA special agent, she commanded the Los Angeles Field Division, one of DEA’s largest field divisions; served in San Francisco, where she became the first woman within DEA promoted to the position of specialRead… Read more »