Digital Government
How hypothetical is Kundra's 'hypothetical' cloud threat?
Is there any truth to Vivek Kundra's claim that security threats related to cloud technology are only hypothetical?
Digital Government
Revealed: The best (and worst) agencies for launching a career
Which agency is the best place for a young fed to start?
Acquisition
Bill would void, stop contracts with U.S. enemies
Wartime Contracting Commission report considers problem of payoffs in enemy lands.
Acquisition
Buying commercial items is back -- or is it?
Some ideas for saving costs would be good ideas even when budgets aren't tight, writes Steve Kelman. Buying commercial items is one of them.
Modernization
Federal surveyors use smartphone apps to review Missouri River flood damage
The Army Corps of Engineers developed a mobile information collection application to manage damage assessments.
Modernization
GSA contracts enable migration to cloud: Davie
Procurement contracts currently available to federal agencies cover about 90 percent of what they need to purchase products and services to migrate to the cloud, a GSA official told a cloud computing conference.
People
Men twice as likely to slash salary for more telework
A new survey indicates that 12 percent of men are willing to give up 10 percent of their salary in exchange for more telework, compared to 6 percent of women.
People
Telework could save Calif. more than $1B, study says
In addition to the savings in commute times and employees' sanity, telework for public-sector employees in California could save the state $1.5 billion a year, according to a new study.
People
Could telework resurrect the House Page Program?
A resurrection of the now defunct House Page Program is proposed via telework.
People
A nation at war: Taking tech into battle
Gen. Nick Justice says he was forever changed by his days on the ground early in the U.S. military response to the 2001 terrorist attacks.
Cybersecurity
Stories of 9/11: A conference table, a sheet of paper and TSA
Patrick Schambach, the sixth employee hired at the Transportation Security Administration, recalls the daunting task of building an agency from scratch.
Digital Government
Remembering Sept. 11: Disaster and response
People in the federal IT community share their stories about the events of Sept. 11, 2001, and their aftermath
Cybersecurity