Federal News Countdown: Mobile strategy, federal reorg

Bob Otto, the executive vice president of advisory services at Agilex, and John Kamensky, a senior fellow with the IBM Center for the Business of Government, co...

Today’s guests on the Federal News Countdown:
Bob Otto, executive vice president of advisory services, Agilex
John Kamensky, senior fellow, IBM Center for the Business of Government

Bob Otto’s stories
#3 White House seeks public input for IT accessibility plan
From Federal Times:

The White House Monday invited the public to chime in with ideas on how to make federal websites and information technology more accessible to people with disabilities. And consultant Jim Tobias has already offered a few ideas.

#2 Analysis: Concept of mobile worker not new, but changing technology is
From Federal News Radio:

Federal employees are buying and expressing demand for mobile devices – maybe even faster than agencies can supply them. Two former administrators in the Office of E-Government & Information Technology at the Office of Management and Budget, Karen Evans and Mark Forman, joined In Depth with Francis Rose to discuss the mobile push in government, especially as OMB has recently broadened the focus.

#1 Army tired of waiting for new mobile devices
From Federal News Radio:

For about the last 10 years, one could sum up the Army’s mobile strategy with one word: Blackberry.The handheld devices made by Research in Motion have been the only broadly-deployed pieces of hardware that met the Defense Department’s security requirements, such as encryption that fits the federal security standard known as FIPS 140-2, enterprise device management and integration with the military’s Common Access Card, letting users sign and encrypt email.


John Kamensky’s stories
#3 Bringing the outside online: Outdoor agencies utilize tech in new ways
From Government Computer News:

While preparing for another busy summer season at the nation’s nearly 400 national parks, the National Park Service is also revising and reevaluating how it manages its scientific data and how it uses media to communicate with visitors.

#2 OMB tries to lessen the cumulative burden of regulations
From Federal Computer Week:

Obama administration officials have given agencies some thoughts on avoiding unnecessary regulations. A new directive from the Office of Management and Budget seeks to encourage agencies to consider the cumulative effects of new rules on agencies. Rules that each do something good can be, when added together, burdensome or conflicting, Cass Sunstein, administrator of OMB’s Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs, wrote on the OMBlog March 20.

#1 Senate panel considers Obama’s reorganization plan
From The Washington Post:

With all the talk about duplication, consolidation and reorganization, Wednesday’s Senate hearing could have been a planning session for a movement of small-government zealots. In a way, it was. Participants on all sides of the issue at the Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee session supported cutting government. How to get there is the issue.

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