Modernization

Cloud computing may disrupt your workplace -- in a good way

By moving to more Web-based computing, managers are reinventing the way many federal agencies operate.

Digital Government

Worried about the bills?

No, not those; we mean the legislative kind. The ones that target the federal workforce.

Digital Government

PTSD v. Cell Phones. Game On.

Modernization

Army lays out future IT planning

Under a new strategic framework, the Army IT Agency consolidating more Pentagon IT -- and pursuing leading-edge technologies for the future.

Digital Government

Cybersecurity and partisan politics: Let's not go there

Cybersecurity is too important an issue to become a victim of partisan bickering.

Modernization

GSA using StumbleUpon to bring visitors to federal websites

The General Services Administration recently established a USA.gov channel on the StumbleUpon Web service network with the goal of generating more traffic to federal websites.

Acquisition

How to nip those protests in the bud

Better communication and transparency in the procurement process could head off a lot of protests.

Acquisition

Survey says, contracting officers bow to auditors

Contractors are frustrated by the unwillingness of contracting officers to assert their decision-making authority.

Cybersecurity

NSA Trailblazer Paul Bartock, 1954-2012

Digital Government

LightSquared CEO resigns after FCC torpedoes network

LightSquared CEO Sanjiv Ahuja has resigned after the Federal Communications Commission turned down the company's plan to build a nationwide wireless network, the company said.

Cybersecurity

House subcommittee questions cybersecurity at power networks

While new computer technology has made power grids more effective, systems designed to secure those networks from cyberattacks continue to lag, Government Accountability Office officials told a House subcommittee on Tuesday.