Acquisition

DOD wants boost to acquisition workforce fund

Defense Department seeks funds to make its acquisition workforce bigger and smarter.

People

Creative accounting reportedly masks $3B in DOD budget request

The Defense Department's budget may have used a little accounting magic to meet discretionary spending caps.

Digital Government

The best of the federal blogosphere

Archived documents, a confiscated cupcake and a World War I fighter plane.

Cybersecurity

Cybersecurity bill displeases Republicans

Sen. Joe Lieberman and his bipartisan co-sponsors say it's not SOPA or PIPA and doesn’t have a kill-switch provision, but Republicans committee leaders say it still overreaches.

People

Transparency on government spending: The missing links

Data on spending is available through existing programs, but gaps make it difficult to get the kind of details that many people would like.

People

Agencies face mean fitness instructor

Because of a congressional failure to cut funding strategically, agencies face a new weight-loss expert: Sequestration.

Modernization

Is government procurement ready for the cloud?

Cloud computing can present unfamiliar territory for government acquisition officials.

Digital Government

Can NASA give away a working satellite?

Government Computer News

Digital Government

Cyber thieves piggyback off Stratfor breach, target feds

Crooks are targeting the global research provider's federal customers whose addresses were compromised during a 2011 hack.

Modernization

Humvees, UAVs could create route to Internet in Afghanistan

DARPA plans to bring connectivity to remote battlefields by turning unmanned aircraft and Humvees into mobile hot spots.

Digital Government

Hey, What's an SBX?

Ideas

Budgets on the Brain...and on the Train...

Cybersecurity

US-VISIT could move again

The White House's budget request for fiscal 2013 proposes another shift in oversight for the Homeland Security Department's US-VISIT biometric technology program, among other IT-related changes.

Cybersecurity

DOD to launch department-wide cybersecurity review

Defense Department is stressing the importance of science, technology and cyber readiness in era of tight budgets.