Trying to boil down readers’ reactions to the recent spate of legislation calling for pay freeze extensions and cutbacks on federal retirement benefits might be best expressed by a quote frequently uttered by Popeye the Sailor (right before he blew his top) …

A half dozen or so members of the House are looking at ways to cut their own retireement benefits. Or are they?

Some lawmakers in Washington have fueled some pretty negative characterizations of the federal workforce. But how many Americans really share their views?

James H. Freis, Jr. was appointed in 2007 as director of the Financial Crimes Enforcement Network (FinCEN), an agency that establishes and implements regulatory policies, and analyzes financial transactions, to help detect and deter money laundering, terrorist financing and other financial crimes. He previously served as deputy assistant general counsel for enforcement and intelligence at the Treasury Department.

President Obama used his annual State of Union address to ask Congress for “the authority to consolidate the federal bureaucracy so that our government is leaner, quicker and more responsive to the needs of the American people.”

Admiral Robert J. Papp, Jr., the 24th Commandant of the U.S. Coast Guard, says he believes we meet challenges by training leaders and giving them the responsibility for making decisions at the operational field level on how they employ their limited resources.

If we can put a man on the moon, why can't we make NASA's new space history trivia game easy to find on Facebook?

Followers of the @WhiteHouse Twitter account are being invited to the White House to live-tweet during the State of the Union speech.

The federal government would make a breakthrough in transparency if it structured its spending and budget data to be machine-readable, according to a Cato Institute report.

More than a year into the program, there are more questions than ever when it comes to DOD enterprise e-mail.

More than a year into the program, there are more questions than ever when it comes to DOD enterprise e-mail.

Air Force Maj. Gen. Ronnie Hawkins took over the reins as DISA director in a Jan. 11 ceremony.

Linguistics professor shares her tips on how to avoid etiquette faux pas when communicating electronically.

With the bashing of feds and the government's bad rep as an inefficient workplace, no wonder college graduates give federal service the cold shoulder, readers say.

An OPM official suggests federal employees learn programming to keep their skills up to date. Is it too much to ask for?

The White House announced a Memorandum of Understanding between the Department of Labor and the Department of Health and Human Services that could help increase workforce training for Health Information Technology professionals in rural hospitals and clinics.  The MOU outlines five specific objectives: Increase the number of trained health IT and health information management professionals. Diversify programs [...]

A look at the week of February 21 in public advocacy for the IT channel:  This week, Republican senators voiced their opposition to cybersecurity legislation introduced by Sen. Joe Lieberman (I-CT).  Meanwhile, Department of Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano expressed support for the legislation, which would require critical sectors to report network intrusions to the [...]

Over one weekend in early February, InformationWeek reported that Anonymous and other hacktivists struck the CIA, the U.S. Census Bureau, Interpol and Mexico, as well as law enforcement websites in Alabama and Texas. Known and reported hacks and breaches are just the tip of the cybersecurity iceberg and have the potential to cause widespread damage. [...]