TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
OK Senator Wants Aid Offset by Budget Cuts
Feds Flock to TSP's L Funds
Making Government 'Simpler'
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
Sequester Hits Disaster Relief
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Joseph Marks
Staff Correspondent
Joseph Marks covers government technology issues, social media, Gov 2.0 and global Internet freedom for Nextgov. He previously reported on federal litigation and legal policy for Law360 and on local, state and regional issues for two Midwestern newspapers. He also interned for Congressional Quarterly’s Homeland Security section and the Associated Press’s Jerusalem Bureau. He holds a bachelor’s degree in English from the University of Wisconsin and a master’s in international affairs from Georgetown.
Wanted: Someone to Keep an Eye on Mount Rushmore
April 17, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Here’s something you probably didn’t know about Mount Rushmore. A series of studies in the early ‘90s identified 21 distinct “rock block[s]” on the monument, three of which were deemed structurally significant, according to a recent National Park Service posting on the government contracting site Federal Business Opportunities. There isn't ...
IRS Should Be Doing More With Its Websites, GAO Says
April 17, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
The Internal Revenue Service's Web tools lag behind other federal agencies and some state governments, especially its inability to give taxpayers secure online access to most of their records, a government auditor said Tuesday. The tax agency has also been too slow to collect data on how people are using ...
White House Debuts Shared Services Catalog
April 16, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
The government’s team of top information technology officials published a catalog of shared services on Tuesday aimed at helping agencies save money on IT services. Agencies will be able to use the catalog to shop for IT services provided by other agencies that are cheaper than they could provide on ...
Boston Bombing Aftermath Documented on Vine
April 16, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
In the wake of Monday’s bombings at the Boston Marathon finish line that have left three dead so far, some people have turned to Twitter’s six-second social video site Vine to document the tragedy and to share their grief. Here’s a sample of those videos. Many people shot Vine videos ...
Social Media Aids First Responders and Grieving Public After Bombing
April 16, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Online social networks have played a role in national emergency response for nearly a decade now. After bomb blasts at the Boston Marathon finish line left three people dead and more than 100 people injured on Monday, Nextgov caught up with observers of social media in emergency management to find ...
Social Media Plays Role in Response to Marathon Bombing
April 15, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
This story has been updated. Here’s a quick inventory of the role social media is playing in the response to Monday's bomb explosions at the Boston Marathon finish line that has caused at least two deaths so far. The Boston Police Department began tweeting confirmed news about 45 minutes after ...
Your Itemized Federal Tax Receipt
April 15, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
With the release of the White House’s 2012 federal taxpayer receipt tool on Monday, it seemed like a good time to put a plug in for the National Priorities Project’s Your Tax Receipt tool. Both tools are basically fancy calculators that break down each taxpayer’s bill based on the proportion ...
Big Data Can Help Keep the Peace
April 12, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
Some of the same social media analyses that have helped Google and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention spot warning signs of a flu outbreak could be used to detect the rumblings of violent conflict before it begins, scholars said in a paper released this week. Kenyan officials used ...
President’s Budget Moves Spending Transparency Site from GSA to Treasury
April 11, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget proposal moves control over the spending transparency website USASpending.gov out of the General Services Administration and gives it to the Treasury Department. The budget also requests $5.5 million in additional funding for Treasury to manage the site, a Treasury spokeswoman said. The site was previously ...
House Oversight Chairman Calls IT Budget Request Misleading
April 11, 2013
FROM NEXTGOV
This post has been updated to add comment from Rep. Gerry Connolly, D-Va. The chairman of the House committee that oversees most government information technology spending on Thursday criticized the $82 billion IT request included in President Obama’s fiscal 2014 budget proposal, saying the figure is likely misleading. The Obama ...
