Cybersecurity

Republicans offer hands-off approach to cybersecurity

Senate Republicans' cybersecurity bill puts the onus on industry, diverges from earlier bipartisan bill.

People

Managing millennials: The do's and don'ts

Managers can take off the silk gloves. Millennial employees are neither fragile nor afraid of hard work.

Modernization

Tips to keep Google from tracking you

With Google's sweeping changes in privacy now in effect, technology experts are offering tips on how to protect your personal information.

Ideas

Open Government vs. Open Data

Acquisition

Bill would stifle contractors' responses to past-performance reviews

Proposed legislation would forbid companies from challenging assessments or even correcting errors, critics say.

Cybersecurity

DHS cannot keep track of all its acquisitions, IG testifies

Despite some improvements, the Homeland Security Department is still having trouble keeping a central record of its $13 billion in annual procurements, according to testimony at a House subcommittee hearing.

Modernization

PowerPoint and a new generation of visual learners

Steve Kelman learns a few things about the power of images.

Digital Government

Why employee engagement matters

Survey finds that the most engaged employees are found among those who have worked longer and have senior roles.

People

NRC cybersecurity exec steps down

Pat Howard, the chief information security officer at the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, is retiring from government in April.

Cybersecurity

No government takeover of Internet in GOP cybersecurity bill, McCain says

Assuring potential critics that the government doesn't need to take over the Internet in order to protect it, Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., joined a bevy of other Republican committee leaders on Thursday to introduce cybersecurity legislation.