TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
CBP Could Escape Furloughs
Feds Flock to TSP's L Funds
EIG 2013 as Told by Your Tweets
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
The Big Squeeze: Defense Under Sequester
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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.
Government job listings may not reach wide enough
July 24, 2007 The official job search portal of the U.S. government, a very effective recruiting tool by most accounts, could lose out on young job-seekers soon if it does not start sharing job listings with other Web sites, some management experts say. USAJobs.gov, the government's centralized job-search Web site, is user friendly ...
Senator pans federal contract for traffic information site
July 23, 2007 Sen. Orrin Hatch has accused the Transportation Department of squelching competition for an open-bid contract to collect and post real-time data on traffic conditions. Traffic.com has been under contract with the department since 1999 to deploy "intelligent transportation systems," or ITS, capable of measuring and managing the performance of the ...
Ousted hurricane center chief defends request for new satellite
July 19, 2007 The director of the National Hurricane Center, who was removed from his position July 9, said the center has never been more ready for hurricane season -- but he still questions why the Bush administration did not act aggressively to replace an aging satellite that provides key forecasting data. The ...
Science, tech advocates eye increased federal resources
July 13, 2007 Six months into 2007, education in the areas of science, technology, engineering and mathematics, or STEM education, is finally getting much needed attention in Washington, education advocates and lawmakers say. "The budget request contained the first meaningful increase for the National Science Foundation's education programs in many years, something the ...
Health IT for veterans gets notice in New Orleans
July 9, 2007 Nearly two years after Hurricane Katrina devastated New Orleans, there is still debate about where to rebuild a healthcare system that will provide the best treatment and most efficient electronic record-keeping for veterans in the southeastern Louisiana region. "Veterans in south Louisiana have waited too long for a decision to ...
Panelists discuss cyber threats, government response
June 21, 2007 Instead of reactively encrypting data whenever government computers go missing, agencies need to be more proactive in combating computer crime, according to the security firm McAfee. "If you look at data loss, the only times that you see real strong reporting is when laptops are lost," said Mike Carpenter, McAfee's ...
Panelist notes politics of putting agency information online
June 19, 2007 Patrice McDermott, executive director of OpenTheGovernment.org, chose to participate in a Tuesday workshop sponsored by the World Wide Web Consortium and the Web Science Research Initiative because she wants to convince techies that the government's underutilization of the Internet has a lot to do with politics. The workshop, held this ...
Tech firms wary of push for contracting reform
June 5, 2007 Information technology contractors are increasingly concerned about bills that seek to minimize the use of so-called cost-reimbursement contracts, which allow contractors to estimate total fees when expenses and requirements involve many unknowns. Lawmakers who are worried about contract abuse want agencies to adhere to standard fixed-price contracts. Language encouraging federal ...
Survey: Unauthorized teleworkers a security risk
June 4, 2007 Federal teleworkers are less of a security risk than many of their in-office colleagues who take home government work without authorization, according to a report released Monday by the public-private partnership Telework Exchange. An online poll of 258 federal employees including sanctioned teleworkers, non-teleworkers and non-teleworkers who unofficially work at ...
Rules lacking over access to executive branch info
May 31, 2007 No laws have been established to help Congress obtain internal information, including e-mails, from the executive branch -- and that may not be a bad thing according to some open government advocates and a recent Congressional Research Service report. But at least one member of Congress says there should be ...
