Ideas

Marines Navigate Another Digital Landmine

Cybersecurity

Upcoming Senate Cyber Bill: No SOPA Here Folks...

In the last couple of days, a number of blogs and stories have popped up questioning whether the Senate cybersecurity legislation to be introduced next week incorporates the ill-fated SOPA/PIPA legislation or is somehow going to harm the Internet as many claimed SOPA/PIPA would.

Digital Government

Cyber Pros: Pick Your Avatar

Acquisition

Agencies stuck with tab for federal contractor pensions, taxpayer group says

The Citizens Against Government Waste taxpayer group is investigating the extent to which federal agencies are on the hook for expensive contractor pension benefits.

Acquisition

OFPP and the dangers of politicizing procurement

Experts say the next OFPP administrator must not bring campaign rhetoric to the job.

People

VA responds to accusations about excessive outsourcing

The VA's dispute with its employees' union continued to heat up as the agency responded to claims that its outsourcing practices are undermining its veteran hiring goals.

Acquisition

Mixed metrics fog DOD's workforce fixes

DOD recorded information on insourcing and created its strategic workforce plans in different ways, hindering any real comparion.

Digital Government

FedStyle: Dos and don'ts of online communications

Linguistics professor shares her tips on how to avoid etiquette faux pas when communicating electronically.

People

The new generation and the media -- curiouser and curiouser

Blogger Steve Kelman finds that more and more people are no longer reading newspapers, or even news.

Digital Government

Whoa, what a week!

Trying to boil down readers’ reactions to the recent spate of legislation calling for pay freeze extensions and cutbacks on federal retirement benefits might be best expressed by a quote frequently uttered by Popeye the Sailor (right before he blew his top) …

Digital Government

The piracy problem: How broad?

New York Times

Digital Government

More drones coming to airspace near you?

Government Computer News