Cybersecurity
E-Verify could add biometrics
Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) has begun laying the groundwork for adding a biometric — most likely a fingerprint — to the E-Verify federal employment verification system
Acquisition
Bill would end HUBZone primacy
HUBZone businesses have priority over companies owned by service-disabled veterans and those in the 8(a) program, but that might change.
People
Analyst: Acquisition workforce needs retooling
A unified acquisition employment series should include program management, contracting officers and an expanded version of a contracting officer's technical representative.
Digital Government
Time and Space
I've been an avid reader of Tim Wright's <a href="http://wiredworkplace.nextgov.com/2009/07/five_social_networking_keys.php">special package of articles</a> on Examiner.com this week about generations in the workplace. Today, Wright <a href="http://www.examiner.com/x-1872-Houston-Workforce-Performance-Examiner~y2009m7d30-Workforce-generations-time--space">notes</a> that the differences among the four generations in the workplace are getting a lot of attention, and all sorts of differences keep cropping up.
Modernization
Farewell to e-mail
Some government agencies are taking a step back from e-mail and evaluating other communication tools such as social networks, collaboration software and Web-based conferencing.
Modernization
Where in the world is the geospatial data?
Policy changes and new technologies can help agencies better manage geospatial data.
People
U.K. agency releases 20-page policy for Twitter
In the U.S. and abroad, agencies determine how to deal with YouTube, Twitter and fake agencies.
Cybersecurity
The great cybersecurity star search
A consortium of private and government organizations has launched a program of competitions and educational opportunities for young people to build the next-generation cybersecurity workforce.
People
The Army's Gary Winkler: Master of change
Winkler explains why change is a natural state — and an imperative — for the service’s information technology portfolio.
Acquisition
Acquisition reforms rush forward while top OFPP seat remains empty
The OFPP administrator, in theory, is an important person when reforming the procurement system. Nevertheless, Obama's making changes without one.
People
Money doesn't make feds' world go round
Money talks, but meaningful work is what really matters.
Cybersecurity
Desperately seeking cyber skills
Efforts to recruit young people into government cybersecurity roles could benefit everyone.
People
Web 2.0 enables transparency goals
The government can achieve its goal of creating a digital public square by using Web 2.0 tools to reduce the effort needed.
Modernization
Information fuels social media
Social-networking tools such as Twitter, Facebook and others are just that: tools. Good content or information is still necessary to make those tools successful.
Cybersecurity
Bill would ban peer-to-peer use in agencies
A House committee chairman who has jurisdiction over some government operations plans to introduce a bill designed to ban the use of peer-to-peer software on government and contractor networks.
Digital Government
Performance management sticks around
The Obama administration, under the guiding hand of the impressive Chief Performance Officer Jeff Zients, has re-jiggered the Bush administration approach to performance measurement in a positive direction.
Digital Government
Senate Committee OKs Hiring Bill
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee approved a bill on Wednesday to streamline the federal recruiting and hiring process. The bill (<a href="http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c111:S.736:">S. 736</a>) requires agencies to:
Cybersecurity