Posted on February 21st, 2012 by Deborah Collier
Governments at all levels are entering new waters when they procure cloud computing services. However, the procurement process remains the same as it has been for any other purchase: a thorough knowledge of the agency’s mission; current inventory of equipment and applications; interagency collaboration; strategic technology and contract development; data protection and portability; security and privacy; protective contracting vehicle [...]
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Posted on February 17th, 2012 by Luke Gelber
From the Wall Street Journal: President Barack Obama will announce Friday that the Export-Import Bank will match any financing by countries like China to ensure U.S. exporters can compete. “Right now, China and other global competitors often provide unfair advantages to help their companies win business overseas,” the White House said in a statement. “The [...]
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Posted on February 14th, 2012 by Deborah Collier
This past Sunday, CAGW President Tom Schatz appeared on “Fox and Friends” morning show to talk about the recent proposals approved by the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reform the Lifeline program funded through the Universal Service Fund (USF). The Lifeline program, which provides telephone communication capability to low-income Americans, has been inefficient and wasteful, subject [...]
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Posted on February 10th, 2012 by Deborah Collier
To tackle the growing number of cybersecurity threats to our nation’s critical infrastructure, a number of bills have been introduced and discussed in Congress in order to update and reform cybersecurity regulations, including the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 (FISMA). In addition to the bills already introduced, the Senate Homeland Security and Government [...]
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Posted on February 3rd, 2012 by CAGW Staff
The Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP), commonly referred to as food stamps, has grown dramatically under President Obama’s administration. At the start of his term, in January 2009, there were approximately 32 million Americans receiving federal assistance from SNAP, costing more than $3.6 billion per month. According to the most recent data from the U.S. [...]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2012 by Luke Gelber
Every summer, Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) combs through the dozens of budget proposals drafted by Presidents past and present, senators, representatives, think tanks, and nonprofits in an effort to come up with a list called Prime Cuts that would hack away at government bloat and lighten the load for taxpayers. CAGW staff takes this [...]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2012 by Deborah Collier
The Lifeline program is part of the Universal Service Fund’s (USF) low-income support services, providing subsidized telephone services to low-income households. The low-income support program also includes the Link-Up program, which provides a discount off the initial installation fee for one traditional, wire line telephone service at a primary residence, or the activation fee for [...]
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Posted on February 2nd, 2012 by Leslie Paige
On January 10, 2012, Senator Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) released a report on state and local government defined benefit pension plans in which he detailed the risks associated with the nation’s $4.4 trillion public pension debt, calling the defined benefit pensions structure “inherently flawed in the state and local government setting.” This massive liability is dangerous [...]
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