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Sebelius defends new healthcare.gov numbers before Congress
HHS Secretary Kathleen Sebelius gave Congress a progress report on the most recent healthcare.gov numbers.In the wake of news that 365,000 Americans selected plans in the Health Insurance Marketplace...
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Conservatives petition Obama over healthcare.gov security
Republicans on the House Committee on Space, Science and Technology sent Dec. 11 a warning to President Barack Obama about the security risks associated with healthcare.gov.The committee Republicans...
View ArticleSpectrum sharing gets another push
The Obama administration expressed its support for continued spectrum reform within the government in advance of a National Telecommunications & Information Administration meeting Dec. 13.The...
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‘Who is minding the store?’ FedScoop’s top 9 federal tech vacancies
Recently, there has been much talk about presidential nominees, mostly because Senate Democrats invoked Nov. 21 the “nuclear option” to circumvent the Republicans’ obstructionism over presidential...
View ArticleBill gets wild name to promote computer science
The craziest name for a bill to come out of Congress this year goes to Reps. Tony Cárdenas, D-Calif., and Mike Honda, D-Calif., for their 416d65726963612043616e20436f646520 Act of 2013, which would...
View ArticleSenate moves forward with budget deal
The Senate voted to invoke cloture on the bipartisan budget deal around 10:20 a.m. Dec. 17, advancing the deal closer to passage before members leaving for the holidays at the end of the week.The final...
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How agencies can up their digital skills
A new report encourages agencies to increase their subscription visibility by adding opportunities to sign up on the side of the page and at the footer, as seen on the National Guard website.It’s the...
View ArticleAgencies’ prize authority continues to save tax dollars
The Office of Science and Technology Policy outlined its progress in prizes and competitions by federal agencies for innovation in its second annual report released Dec. 17.The report, required under...
View ArticleGSA’s new architecture opens new worlds in procurement
The General Services Administration is planning to make contract procurement easier with the reveal of its new database architecture Dec. 18.The procurement database will allow companies and agencies...
View ArticleFederal telework eligibility sees nearly 50% spike
Telework is becoming more prominent in the federal sector and is leading to costs savings for some parts of the government, according to a survey of 88 agencies by the Office of Personnel...
View ArticleHHS looks for tech entrepreneur
The Department of Health and Human Services is looking for an innovator in residence to lay the new groundwork for health information technology.In conjunction with Healthcare Information and...
View ArticleUPDATE: Senate passes budget deal
The Senate passed the bipartisan budget deal 64 to 36, averting another government shutdown for the next two years and preventing further sequestration budget cuts, around 5 p.m. Dec. 18.“This bill is...
View ArticleCouncil urges government to support online education
A set of recommendations regarding the future use of Massive Open Online Courses were released Dec. 19 in a letter by the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology, detailing ways to...
View ArticleData Challenge winners make energy waste a thing of the past
Looking for smart, technological ways to reduce energy consumption, or to make decisions on what house to buy based on energy use?The American Energy Data Challenge winners are making those dreams a...
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OFPP’s Joe Jordan heads to FedBid for top position
Joe Jordan is leaving government to take a role in the private sector. (File photo: FedScoop)White House procurement policy chief Joe Jordan will be moving to FedBid to act as the president of public...
View ArticleData Vault: 2013 wrap-up with Gavin Baker
The Data Vault is a weekly podcast that investigates government open data. It delves into the world of agency data and data procurement. This week, the Data Vault speaks with Gavin Baker, open data...
View ArticleAfter three years, federal pay freeze ends
President Barack Obama signed Dec. 23 an executive order inching up federal workers’ pay by 1 percent. The order has been expected since the end of the shutdown Oct. 17, when the agreement to open the...
View ArticleFedScoop countdown: Top 6 open data tweets of 2013
FedScoop complied a countdown of the biggest open data tweets of 2013. These tweets are not necessarily the most popular, but express sentiments that were influential in the open data world from...
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Open data: The strangest data sets from 2013
The government collects a lot of data, and with President Barack Obama’s open data initiative more of it than ever is accessible on the Internet. Data.gov is the main repository for data sets published...
View ArticleWhite House nears release of 3.5 million records, open data orgs still skeptical
The White House announced it has released nearly 3.5 million records since beginning its open data initiative in 2009. With the release of the September 2013 White House visitor records Dec. 27, the...
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