Acquisition
Defense bill: 4 provisions to turn back the clock on insourcing
The House's defense authorization bill changes course on past efforts to restore contracted work to federal employees.
People
A funny thing happened on the way to the CIO office ...
Here are four examples of federal IT leaders using humor to deliver important information in a memorable way.
Digital Government
Devil is in the open-source details
The Veterans Affairs and Defense departments have slightly different views about the role of open-source development in their joint electronic health record system, according to the VA's CIO Roger Baker.
Digital Government
Pentagon wants to spur a revolution in clean energy
Officials hope military's high demand will help scale up production, drive down costs, and lead to technological breakthroughs.
Digital Government
How does the private sector look these days?
Be honest now. Are you thinking about jumping ship?
Digital Government
Executives not impressed with Obama's picks
Respondents to a new survey gave lower ratings to Obama administration appointees than those of the previous two administrations.
Modernization
Private sector can learn from feds' telework implementation
For once, the federal government blazes a trail for the business sector via its implementation of agency telework programs.
People
How agencies can get the inside scoop on wasteful programs
The federal government should tap into the wisdom of feds to identify activities that are ripe for termination, writes Steve Kelman.
Digital Government
How microservers could change the data center
Find out why some experts think microservers are going to give the boot to virtualization in many large datacenters.
Acquisition
GAO: Agencies question usefulness of contract inventories
Some agency officials fear their in-depth inventories of service contracts will turn out to be useful to no one due to funding, manpower shortages.
Digital Government