The Office of the Chief Technology Officer wants you to watch your mouth.
Send an offensive word in an email to a city government employee, to be received at a "dc.gov" email address, and you'll be censored. The message will bounce back with a note that says, "Your recent message for [email address] titled [email subject] contains [...]
Mayor Adrian M. Fenty has again raided the private sector for an agency head: Bryan D. Sivak, 34, is his new chief technology officer.
Sivak replaces interim CTO Chris Willey, who in turn replaced Vivek Kundra, who exited the Fenty administration for a top federal job in the Office of Management and Budget.
Like transportation director Gabe [...]
LL is hearing word that the city today is moving to end contracts with Advanced Integrated Technology Corp.—the outfit until recently headed by Sushil Bansal, charged last week in the tech corruption scandal—and two other companies alleged to be associated with the fraud. LL has no confirmation of the companies' identities, but Innovative IT Solutions [...]
As LL has said repeatedly, there is not evidence that former Chief Technology Officer Vivek Kundra was in any way directly involved in the graft that allegedly happened under his nose. But it did happen under his nose.
So here's a question: Where was the oversight?
Kundra gave assurances that he was directly involved in the approval [...]
LL's spent the last couple of hours poring though the affidavit filed by federal authorities in support of the arrests made today in connection with OCTO corruption.
Here's the headlines:
The whole scheme was laid bare thanks to the cooperation of an OCTO employee who was introduced into the scheme last March by Yusuf Acar. The employee [...]
LL's been eyeballing city purchase orders this afternoon, trying to suss out some more information about Sushil Bansal (pictured), arrested in connection to the OCTO corruption probe, and his company, Advanced Integrated Technologies Corp. (AITC).
Long story short, they've done a lot of business with the city.
According to publicly downloadable city records—thanks, Vivek!—the city has authorized [...]
Per WTOP's Mark Segraves and his Twitter feed, FBI agents are searching the Office of the Chief Technology Officer's executive suite located at One Judiciary Square. It's unclear at this point which particular office or which particular OCTO employee the feds might be targeting.
All of the OCTO employees on the premises have been sent home. [...]
They call it "burrowing in"—when government employees in politically appointed posts move into civil-service jobs as political fortunes shift.
That's what a lot folks working for Republicans are doing right now in the federal government. And, at the District level, there's some burrowing, too.
Nyasha Smith, who clerked the workforce development and government operations committee for outgoing [...]
