Cybersecurity
Cyber exercise aims to teach the good guys to think like the bad guys
The National Defense University's Cybersecurity Challenge wants to educate professionals on how hackers think to better understand how to spot and stop penetration attacks.
Digital Government
Labor moves to paperless pension filing
New electronic system will bring significant savings for the department, contractor says.
Modernization
GSA's $5 billion satellite services contract targets bandwidth costs
Deal with Defense to form Future Commercial Satcom Acquisitions combines purchases for military and civilian agencies.
Digital Government
Consumer advocate says FCC broadband proposal will fall short of goals
Critic says plan would leave up to 30 million households without access.
Digital Government
VA Wants to Hear from You
The Veterans Affairs Department has opened up a new <a href=http://www.openva.ideascale.com/>Web portal</a> to solicit ideas from the public and from department employees on how it can become more transparent, collaborative and all those other open government buzzwords.
Ideas
Social Networking: In. Blogging: Out.
Teens and young adults are moving away from blogging and using Facebook and other social media sites in increasing numbers, according to a <a href="http://voices.washingtonpost.com/posttech/2010/02/facebook_social_networks_incre.html" target="blank">recent study</a> from the Pew Research Center.
Ideas
Another Government Dashboard
The Office of Management and Budget on Tuesday announced the debut of another <a href="http://www.reginfo.gov/public/jsp/Utilities/index.jsp" target="blank">IT dashboard</a>, this time as a window into the Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs.
People
Favoritism in the federal workplace: Wishful thinking or cold hard truth?
FCW readers take issue with a recent blog post suggesting that favoritism is not as prevalent as many feds think.
People
Employees and the public are full of good ideas that agencies can tap
Agencies must be ready to solicit ideas from the public and provide incentives for that participation.
Acquisition
The rise of the 'critical function': A new way to think about acquisition
The critical function stole the importance of the inherently governmental function because the Obama administration has said it wants less outsourcing.
People
VA takes a leap of faith into telehealth
The Veterans Affairs Department is a step ahead of the rest of the federal government in promoting telehealth, also called telemedicine. Now VA is proposing to double its telehealth investment over two years. But without a broader federal strategy behind it, VA’s leap into telehealth is, to some degree, a leap of faith.
Modernization
Feds look for their avatars in 3-D
The Agriculture Department plans to acquire software that agencies across government can use to build its own virtual world for collaboration and training.
Cybersecurity