Modernization

Air Force considers dumping PCs for 1.2 million thin clients

The Air Force could send personal computers to the junkyard by 2014, depending on the results of a study to replace them with thin clients -- 1 million on unclassified networks and 220,000 on classified networks.

Digital Government

Senate to VA: Answer the phone

Veterans are peeved at the slow response, lack of information from toll-free benefits line.

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.