In response to the President’s Digital Government Strategy, the National Science Foundation (NSF) seeks guidance in prioritizing its efforts. NSF is seeking input to help identify what NSF data sets are of most interest to the public. Individuals can suggest…

In an August 9th memorandum from the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs (OIRA), a component of the Office of Management and Budget, the Obama administration instructed federal agencies to “engage in advance testing of information collections” – the forms…

A new report published by the Grattan Institute, written by Andrew Norton, titled “Graduate Winners”, proposes that: Most students should pay more for higher education, given howmuch they benefit from a degree. By the middle of this decade,tuition subsidies will…

A new study recently published by the National Science Foundation (NSF) on this topic (NSF 12-235, Collaboration in Academic R&D: A Decade of Growth in Pass-Through Funding) demonstrates an increase in research collaboration. In 2009, pass-through funds represented 7% of…

CCR (the Central Contractor Registration) will transition to SAM at the end of July. CCR must stop accepting new data in order to successfully migrate the existing data into SAM. CCR’s last business day is Tuesday, July 24, 2012. It…

The US Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs held a hearing on July 18th: Show Me the Money: Improving the Transparency of Federal Spending. The purpose of this hearing was to hear from Sen. Mark Warner (D-VA; lead…

A Government Accountability Office (GAO) report published in February, 2011 found numerous examples of overlap and potentially unnecessary duplication in government programs or activities. They concluded that potentially billions oft tax dollars could be saved annually by “reducing or eliminating…

An item in Fedblog at the Government Executive website notes that Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA), who heads the Government Oversight and Reform panel which fostered the DATA Act to passage in the House of Representatives on April 26, 2012, noted…

In a new report published by the National Research Council, increased funding to research universities was identified as critically important to maintaining their global preeminence, and a “grand bargain” was suggested that would involve academia, government, and industry in increasing…

MeriTalk, an online community focused on US government IT issues, looked at the nexus of technology adoption in personal life vs. work life and published their findings in Consumer Crossover: Me, Myself and IT. This study looks at adoption of…