Posted on March 30th, 2012 by Deborah Collier
Yesterday, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Commerce, Manufacturing and Trade held its sixth hearing on online privacy. This hearing followed last month’s request and proposal by the Obama administration for a consumer privacy “Bill of Rights,” and Monday’s release of the Federal Trade Commission’s (FTC) online privacy report. Witnesses at yesterday’s hearing included [...]
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Posted on March 28th, 2012 by Erica Gordon
The Council for Citizens Against Government Waste (CCAGW) supports the Republican Study Committee’s (RSC) FY 2013 budget proposal, a plan that is based on the principles of “Cut, Cap, and Balance,” and would reduce the size and scope of government, reform Medicare, Medicaid, and Social Security to ensure long-term sustainability, and balance the federal budget by 2017. [...]
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Posted on March 26th, 2012 by Deborah Collier
With less than one month away from the filing deadline, Americans across the nation are sending their personal information to the Internal Revenue Service (IRS). It is the hope of the nation’s taxpayers that this information will be protected and secure. However, following on last year’s revelation that the IRS was not appropriately notifying taxpayers [...]
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Posted on March 23rd, 2012 by Leslie Paige
It has clearly not been a good year for Energy Secretary Stephen Chu. The $500 million Solyndra scandal attracted a slew of scorching media stories; the more light that is shed on that story, the uglier it gets. The Obama administration must be doing some sort of polling on the subject and getting alarming results because, after initially shrugging [...]
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Posted on March 22nd, 2012 by Tom Schatz
The devastating consequences to national security from the automatic cuts of $600 billion that will occur in January 2013 have been made clear by top Pentagon officials and leading members of Congress. While President Obama has made stated that he will force Congress to stick to the plan set in place by the failure of [...]
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Posted on March 19th, 2012 by Deborah Collier
In 2008, the General Services Administration (GSA) began work on the second state of its consolidation of its portfolio of acquisition services into an Integrated Acquisition Environment (IAE). This new infrastructure for acquisition would provide a centralized system for award management (SAM) for the federal government. Initial cost projections for this program were slated at [...]
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Posted on March 12th, 2012 by Deborah Collier
As part of its 25-point plan to reform federal IT management, the administration is now in the process of developing guidelines for its “shared first” proposal. Among other criteria, this proposal requires federal agencies to identify at least two IT investments that can be migrated to a shared environment by December 31, 2012. The draft proposal also [...]
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