Federal Government

Federal Government Dishing Out Money For Biofuel Research

Daily Tech (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

The U.S. government continues research into biofuel

SpaceCurve, Inc.: SpaceCurve Announces Formation of Federal Government Advisory Board

Market Wire (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago

SEATTLE, WA (MARKET WIRE) SpaceCurve, a next-generation analytics company, is pleased to announce the establishment of a Federal Government Advisory Board. The Board was formed to provide guidance in building productive relationships that will enable SpaceCurve to support the mission needs of the world's largest customers of advanced analytic, search and database technology. The team's...

Irony: Federal Government Workshop On Openness… Closed To The Public

Click World News (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009

The Obama administration still has a very mixed record on transparency and openness. Despite promising to be a lot more transparent and open, the federal government has been extremely selective in where it actually is open. So, yes, it's done a decent job with some online projects like Recovery.gov and USASpending.gov , but in other areas, such as on ACTA negotiations the government...

Irony: Federal Government Workshop On Openness... Closed To The Public

Techdirt (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009

The Obama administration still has a very mixed record on transparency and openness. Despite promising to be a lot more transparent and open, the federal government has been extremely selective in where it actually is open. So, yes, it's done a decent job with some online projects like Recovery.gov and USASpending.gov , but in other areas, such as on ACTA negotiations the government...

FedSources Releases Groundbreaking Federal Energy Analysis

Business Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday

MCLEAN, Va.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--FedSources, a Washington Management Group company, has released a first of its kind, broad-reaching analysis of the Federal Energy market, covering both Federal energy spending and Federal energy consumption. According to “The Federal Energy Domain” report, the U.S. Federal government spends $58.6 billion each year...

LaHood tells Congress federal government needs to oversee safety of subways, transit trains

Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday

Five Technology Trends That Could Transform the Federal Government

eWeek (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

Input, a market research company focusing on the government sector, identifies five technology trends that it expects to transform the federal government: cloud computing, virtualization, service-oriented architecture or SOA, open-source software and geospatial technologies. - Input, a market research company focusing on the government sector, has identified five technology...

• INPUT: Five Technology Trends That Will Transform the U.S. Federal Government - Industry Analyst Reporter News

Federal Government Energy Consumption to Rise 36% in 2010

Environmental Leader (Free subscription) | yesterday

In contrast to rhetoric from the government to reduce residential and commercial energy expenditures, government energy spending is projected to go up dramatically. In fiscal year 2010, the government is projected to spend $28.8 billion on energy consumption, up a staggering 36 percent from the $21.2 billion spent in 2009. The figures encompass energy used in [...]

LaHood to tell Congress federal government needs to oversee safety of subways, transit trains

Star Tribune (Free subscription) | yesterday

INPUT: Five Technology Trends That Will Transform the U.S. Federal Government

Industry Analyst Reporter News (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

Cloud Computing, Virtualization, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA), Open Source Software (OSS) and Geospatial technologies are poised for increased U.S. federal government adoption over the next five years as cost-saving initiatives drive investment in these solutions, according to a market research study from INPUT, a leading authority on government business for the tech industry....

Government Announces $1.4 Billion Settlement in Indian Trust Case

WiredNews (Free subscription) | yesterday

After more than a decade of litigation, U.S. officials announced Tuesday that the federal government has agreed to pay $1.4 billion to settle claims that it grossly mismanaged Indian trust accounts

Open Government Directive live chat right now with Vivek Kundra. Go White House!

Jack and Jill Politics (Free subscription) | yesterday

Sunlight foundation has a great live feed and commentary (thanks to @Shoq for the link) And a reminder from the White House on what this is all about The Open Government Directive and the Progress Report to the American People lay out how the Obama Administration is breaking down long-standing barriers between the federal government and the [...]

Open Government Directive Timelines

Sunlight Foundation (Free subscription) | yesterday

This morning, the White House released the Open Government Directive, which John explains here. I’ve gone through the Directive (rather quickly), and reorganized it into a timeline checklist for the Administration. 45 days — January 22, 2010 “Each agency shall identify and publish online in an open format at least three high-value data sets and register those [...]

States Begging Federal Government For More Money To Pay People To Be Unemployed

Say Anything (Free subscription) | 12/08/2009

Two weeks ago I posted about state unemployment taxes going up on businesses (you know, the people we want to be hiring) thanks to the federal government expanding unemployment benefits as a part of the “stimulus” bill . Now the states are lining up to ask the federal government to extend unemployment benefits again. Because nothing solves an unemployment problem...

Gemalto Surpasses 25 Million Smart Card Shipments to U.S. Federal Government

Smart Card Alliance (Free subscription) | 12/07/2009

Arlington, VA USA, Dec 7, 2009 –Gemalto, the world leader in digital security, today announced that it has surpassed 25 million smart card-based identity credentials shipped to the U.S. federal government. This total is evenly split between government identity credentials, used for securing the identities of federal government employees and military personnel...