Digital Government
High-tech war requires innovation, cutting-edge resources from home
Government Computer News
Digital Government
Defense secretary taps new Spectrum chief
Gates also names new DISA computing and information technology executives.
Digital Government
Potential Commerce panel chairman plans aggressive oversight of FCC
Republican Rep. Joe Barton says if he becomes leader of the committee he will seek to stop the commission from reclassifying broadband as a telecommunications service.
Digital Government
DARPA kicks off battlefield networks project
Research agency eyes development of a wireless soldier information system.
Digital Government
Correction: Federal vs. private pay: The latest take on who makes more
This story was been modified on Nov. 5 to correct an error. The gap between federal and private sector pay has grown by 2.1 percent since last year and totals an average of about 24 percent.
Digital Government
Furloughs, freezes and other measures
The shift in power in the House in the new year may put a lot of things back on the table when it comes to the federal workplace.
People
Government turnover elevated in mission-critical arenas
A new report from the Partnership for Public Service and Booz Allen Hamilton has found that attrition rates for government employees are high in some fields, including among mission-critical employees and new hires.
Digital Government
Who's No. 1? D.C. area schools vie for cybersecurity honors
A regional competition hosted by Computer Sciences Corp. pitted teams from four area colleges against each other and against red-team hackers, part of a growing national effort to encourage science education and develop a professional cybersecurity workforce.
Cybersecurity
3 case studies in social media experimentation
Agencies and government contractors are notoriously reluctant to take risks, but some are venturing into the world of social networks, multimedia and interactive blogging and finding success.
Acquisition
Officials recognize breakthroughs in bulk buying
Agencies, acting differently and under new pressures, are reconsidering strategic sourcing's benefits.
People
The state of telework in the government
The closing of federal agencies last winter proved how telework can help keep work from piling up as high as the record snowfall.
Digital Government