Digital Government
Will Google's Android 2 be a smart-phone spoiler?
The release of the Motorola Droid by Verizon Wireless has many reviewers touting it as the biggest threat yet to the popular Apple iPhone. Many observers also believe that the once written-off Android could outsell devices based on the BlackBerry, Microsoft Windows Mobile and Palm Pre platforms.
Digital Government
DISA ordered to contribute to geospatial intelligence suite
Federal Computer Week
Digital Government
Hill grills DHS over delay in consolidating financial systems
Risks in the 'monumental task' to create one network include relying heavily on contractors to define and deploy the system, GAO reports.
Digital Government
Compact field system keeps commanders plugged in without weighing them down
Small enough to fit in two rugged suitcases, communications setup connects to range of Defense and coalition networks.
Digital Government
5 signs procurement is ready for a revolution
Conditions are ripe for contracting shops to significantly change the way they do business.
Acquisition
Senators skeptical about Obama acquisition reform plan
The Obama administration expects agencies to save $40 billion by fiscal 2011 through better acquisitions.
Ideas
Google Gets Virginians to the Polls
With the Virginia general election only a week away, residents of the commonwealth looking for voting information might find one of Google's latest gadgets useful.
Digital Government
Moving Beyond NSPS
President Obama on Wednesday signed into law the fiscal 2010 Defense Authorization Act, a bill that includes <a href="http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2009/10/senate_approves_federal_retirement_changes.php">several federal workforce provisions</a>. One provision fully repeals the Defense's Department's controversial National Security Personnel System, meaning the thousands of employees who are currently hired, evaluated and paid based on the system will move back to the decades-old General Schedule by 2012.
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