Cybersecurity
Banning file-sharing software won't keep data safe from hackers
As House leaders reassess guidelines that led to the disclosure of an internal ethics report, security experts say audits and tests also are needed to protect information.
Digital Government
Security Content Automation Protocol backgrounder
A quick guide to the Security Content Automation Protocol, which makes it easier for agencies to continuously verify the security status of their computers.
People
Work to rule
In the physics of the workplace, every management action there will be, by definition, an equal and opposite reaction on the part of employees. So what are we to make of the demise of the National Security Personnel System?
Acquisition
A bid for protest sanity
The latest case of a bid protest against a multibillion-dollar award prompted our colleague Nick Wakeman to ask a simple but pertinent question: What gives?
Modernization
Cloud computing, social media dominate ELC
Cloud computing, social-media technologies and economic stimulus funding were prime topics at the Executive Leadership Conference.
People
Empirical evidence can help inform debate about whether a management approach will improve government
Good empirical evidence about a phenomenon can help inform the debate about whether a management approach will improve government or not, Steve Kelman writes.
People
Performance management in action
Management experts often cite the following two projects as evidence that pay for performance can work in government.
Digital Government
What does Twitter mean for foreign policy?
Experts say new media poses great opportunities for activists and some questions for governments.
Modernization
Social media, virtual town halls and the top tech of 2009
How to win over social media holdouts; virtues of virtual town hall meetings; the best tech of 2009.
Acquisition
Insourcing: It's still more with less
It's time to use available commercial technologies and business practices and bring federal acquisition into the 21st century, Bruce Sullivan writes.
People
New law has engineers poised for more management duties
The Weapon Systems Acquisition Reform Act of 2009 highlights the need to give systems engineers greater responsibility and authority, writes John A. Thomas.
People
Obama gives the heave-ho to DOD pay for performance
One union official said the National Security Personnel System was grounds for a class-action lawsuit and stripped employees’ rights to collectively bargain pay rates with union backing.
Modernization
Two cases for the cloud
The Defense Department chose a private cloud, and Arlington County, Va., turned to a public offering to address their information technology needs.
People