U.S. Federal Government news from FierceCIO

A security clearance for your IT job has many benefits. The biggest one is pay. If you have a government-issued clearance, you are likely to earn nearly $20,000 more a year, according to a recent Read more...

Microsoft founder Bill Gates takes his final lap around Washington, D.C., next week as company chairman when he testifies on March 12 at a hearing on the future of innovation and U.S. Read more...

The U.S. government opens the floodgates, sort of, on April 1 when it begins accepting this year's applications for H-1B visas. The issue is an important one for the tech industry, which is looking Read more...

> The hybrid CIO. Article> Fastest growing tech for the CIO. Read more...

The already overburdened CIO has another big job on his plate. It's called eDiscovery, and it has been mandated by the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure requiring companies to turn over all electronic Read more...

President Bush is expected to sign the $168 billion economic stimulus bill this week that could save businesses tens of millions of dollars this year on the purchase of IT equipment. The legislation, Read more...

Green IT seems to be everywhere these days, from the data center to the desktop. And now, it looks like Green IT is extending its reach as far as Washington. The so-called Technology CEO Council, an Read more...

> Mozilla patches Firefox vulnerability. Article> NEC launches official Vista downgrade product. Read more...

The private sector isn't the only place where CIOs have one headache after another. The federal section has its problems too. Michael Carleton, the new CIO at the U.S. Health and Human Services Read more...

The federal government is on the hot seat once again. Rep. Betty McCollum is calling for an investigation into whether federal agencies resold magnetic data tapes. InformationWeek reports that the Read more...