Agriculture Close To Avoiding Furloughs
Sequester Hits Disaster Relief
Feds Respond to Oklahoma Tornadoes
Making Government 'Simpler'
OK Senator Wants Aid Offset by Budget Cuts
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
AUTHOR ARCHIVES
Aliya Sternstein
Senior Correspondent
Aliya Sternstein reports on cybersecurity and homeland security systems for Nextgov. She has covered technology for nine years at such publications as National Journal's TechnologyDaily, Federal Computer Week and Forbes. Before joining Government Executive, she covered agriculture and derivatives trading for Congressional Quarterly. She has been a guest commentator on C-SPAN, WTOP and Federal News Radio. She is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania.
Classification Comments from Public?
August 20, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
Has time run out? A coalition of public interest groups has yet to hear from the national security adviser about its request that he allow public comment on a review of classification policy before delivering it to the president next week. More than twenty activists and organized groups signed an ...
HHS Issues Breach Notification Rules
August 19, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
The administration on Wednesday announced safeguards intended to protect consumers from health information technology breaches, as the White House tries to move healthcare reform forward. Health IT has been a focal point of the stimulus package and the president's larger healthcare plan -- a plan that is under attack by ...
USDA unit bans browsers other than Internet Explorer
August 19, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
An Agriculture Department agency has begun enforcing a policy banning the use of Web browsers other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, to the surprise of employees who rely on other browsers, such as Mozilla's Firefox, to help in developing Web sites for public use. An operations manager at USDA's Cooperative State ...
Online tool sheds sunlight on court records
August 19, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
A group of academics have unveiled an online tool to make federal courts transparent by providing free public access to court records -- and they are encouraging the White House to help with the effort. The Center for Information Technology Policy at Princeton University this month began to unlock the ...
From Nextgov.com: USDA unit bans browsers other than Internet Explorer
August 19, 2009 An Agriculture Department agency has begun enforcing a policy banning the use of Web browsers other than Microsoft's Internet Explorer, to the surprise of employees who rely on other browsers, such as Mozilla's Firefox, to help in developing Web sites for public use. Read the full story on Nextgov.com.
Cloudy Outlook
August 17, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
View charts of top 50 technology contractors for 2000-2009. The impact of Obama IT initiatives like a shift to Web-based services is as yet unknown. The buzzword in federal information technology spending this year is "cloud computing" - the outsourcing of IT services to software and hardware providers. But that ...
Is administration more interested in transparency of Congress?
August 17, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
The Obama administration has moved faster to create transparency for its rivals than for federal agencies under its management, some open government activists claim. Critics point to unrealistic goals in creating a directive for transparency and foot-dragging in posting bills online for comment before the president signs them. Meanwhile, the ...
From Nextgov.com: Is administration more interested in transparency of Congress?
August 17, 2009 The Obama administration has moved faster to create transparency for its rivals than for federal agencies under its management, some open government activists claim. Read the full story on Nextgov.com.
Cloudy Outlook
August 15, 2009 The impact of Obama IT initiatives like a shift to Web-based services is as yet unknown. The buzzword in federal information technology spending this year is "cloud computing"-the outsourcing of IT services to software and hardware providers. But that migration will have to wait for future budget cycles. The fiscal ...
Birthers and Transparency
August 14, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
Programmers may extract data from a White House-led online discussion about transparency to analyze the influence of participants who are out to prove that President Obama is not a natural born U.S. citizen. Since May, the administration has been seeking public input on a forthcoming presidential directive on open government ...
