Is Your Privacy Worth 50 Foiled Terror Plots?
Tangherlini As GSA's Mr. Fix-It?
The Plan to Open More Military Jobs to Women
Saving Overnight Mail Delivery
Should Leaders Ever Lie?
Lew Cleans Up Signature for the Nation's Currency
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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.
From Nextgov.com: GSA posts Recovery.gov winning contract proposal
August 3, 2009 The General Services Administration made public on Friday the winning contract proposal for the potential $18 million overhaul of Recovery.gov. Read the full story on Nextgov.com
Updated: Recovery.gov Contract
July 31, 2009
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Update: Late Friday night, GSA released the Smartronix contract documents. They are now publicly available here on Recovery.gov . The government is behind in posting the potential $18 million contract for the redesign of Recovery.gov because of the work involved to ensure the disabled can access it, said officials at ...
Godwin's White House Tenure Ends
July 31, 2009
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Bev Godwin, who helped bridge the digital divide between federal Luddites and Obama administration tech whizzes, is leaving her post at the White House's new media office. Friday is her last day as the office's director of online resources and interagency development, White House officials said. Her detail to the ...
Privacy protections could hamper agencies' adoption of cookies
July 30, 2009
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The White House's newly proposed plan to lift a nine-year ban on placing online-tracking devices on federal Web sites could conflict with other government regulations, some privacy and new media specialists said. Since 2000, agencies have been barred from using cookies -- software that a site deposits on visitors computers ...
The Health Show Must Go On
July 29, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
After liberal and conservative House Democrats on Wednesday compromised on a health care bill, the Web site of the committee with jurisdiction apparently went down due to "an unusually high number of visitors." The spartan site of the House Energy and Commerce Committee now consists of the panel's logo, logistical ...
States' stimulus tracking sites are mediocre at best, report finds
July 29, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
A study released on Wednesday criticizes most state Web sites that track stimulus spending, specifically finding fault with their coverage of job creation, contract awards and geographic location of projects. Good Jobs First, a Washington research center that co-chairs the Coalition for An Accountable Recovery, issued the report as part ...
Library Official Picked For Archivist
July 28, 2009
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Update: The White House has announced it has sent Ferriero's nomination to the Senate for confirmation. President Obama reportedly plans to appoint David S. Ferriero to the position of U.S. Archivist, a job that entails deploying a massive technologically-agnostic system to preserve and publish the historical record of the United ...
Public more satisfied with agencies that pursue transparency online, study says
July 28, 2009
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Agencies can fulfill the president's vision of open government by posting large amounts of data online quickly and making it easy to find, a group that tracks the public's satisfaction with government Web sites reported on Tuesday. By boosting the "thoroughness and accessibility of information made available online," or what ...
White House Confronts Cookies
July 27, 2009
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The White House may lift its policy barring federal Web sites from tracking users' online behavior. A Federal Register notice published on Monday seeks public comment on revisions to an existing ban on persistent cookies -- common software programs that commercial sites deposit on a visitor's computer to collect usage ...
White House mulls making NASA a center for federal cloud computing
July 24, 2009
FROM NEXTGOV
NASA and the Obama administration's top technology officer are considering a NASA cloud computing prototype to test the president's plan for agencies to outsource information technology services to a shared platform. President Obama has called for slashing federal IT infrastructure costs by relying on cloud computing, a process where agencies ...
