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

Launching Your Federal Career

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

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

9/11 remembered: Building a department on demand

Steve Cooper, the first CIO at DHS, recalls how a surge of patriotism prompted him to lend his talents to the homeland security effort.