As part of his new budget proposal, President Obama has opted to drop “User fee” language from the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) budget. User fees would break from the traditional excise tax
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The Department of Veterans Affairs recently introduced a test website. This website details the status of various IT projects from the federal IT Dashboard website. According to Roger Baker, the VA CIO,
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Despite calling for a discretionary budget freeze for 2011, President Barack Obama has requested $79.4 billion in spending on information technology projects for fiscal 2011, a 1.2 percent increase over the amount he
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In case it hadn’t already been made abundantly clear, the Obama administration has put an increasingly intense emphasis on Web 2.0 initiatives. The president has announced plans for a YouTube event this
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Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid (D-Nv) has filed cloture on the nomination of Martha Johnson to be the administrator of GSA. It has been nine months since Martha Johnson was first nominated
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He was the first federal CIO to host a public blog. Now Robert Carey’s embrace of social media within government has come to be viewed as a potential model for other agencies
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On Tuesday, the Department of Transportation put a ban on texting while driving for commercial truck drivers and bus drivers – the first time a federal agency has taken action in this
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