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A currency of trust
Federal executives can work more effectively with Congress. Here’s how.

Search gets smarter
5 solutions that could boost agencies’ productivity

A race to the technological frontier
DARPA’s annual robotic vehicle competition has reached the edge of the technologically possible

OMB's budget theme continues: Do more with less
Agencies face fiscal 2008 with a challenge to get more value from past IT spending

Army kills $2B Land Warrior program

Circuit

Intercepts

Editorial: Change management
The changes to come will accentuate what FCW and GCN have been doing well already

Sprehe: Embracing data

• Air Force Policy Directive 33.3 (.pdf)

Kelman: A novel idea: Read

Welles: How to turn a ship

Kicked upstairs, Brad Boston takes charge
Former Cisco Systems CIO draws on his experience in managing large enterprises

Managers fret over telework issues

• The Telehealth Exchange's "Face to Face With Management Reality" report

OPM survey finds employees enjoy work, but dislike their bosses

Sorting SOA fact from fiction
7 truths about service-oriented architecture that savvy leaders can take to the bank

4 ways tech changed the fight

Data loss gets personal

Democrats used good data to win midterms

An advocate of commercial best practices
A colleague describes EDS’ David Hadsell as one ‘who under-promises but over-delivers’

Industry groups join hands

Ethics emphasis could be a procurement plus

DISA to pay $1.2B for network protection
Defending against insider threats puts squeeze on budget

DOD modernization yields to war demands

• 2008 budget home page

US-VISIT program offers no exit

1988: Kick-starting artificial intelligence

A few minutes with...Ray Kane

Buzz of the Week

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