Ideas

What should the CTO do?

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People

A tipping point for NIEM?

Policy initiatives have aided the fast adoption of information-sharing standards framework.

People

Google tool seeks to track flu trends

The query-based system may be as much as two weeks faster than traditional disease-surveillance methods.

People

Get smart

Here is Dave Wennergren’s list of 10 books that are valuable for information leaders.

People

Leadership by the book

DOD’s Dave Wennergren spreads a gospel of trust, information sharing and enlightened management through selective reading.

People

The 13 behaviors for cultivating trust

These behaviors stem from character, competence, or a combination of the two.

People

The 4 cores of credibility

The key to building trust in organizations is alignment — linking an organization’s design around those cores and behaviors.

People

Organizational success: A matter of trust

Leaders will reap dividends if they align their organizations with core principles and behaviors that increase trust.

Digital Government

Davis headed to Deloitte Consulting, sources say

Retiring Republican lawmaker was ranking member and former chairman of Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Digital Government

Opponents of Internet gambling ban like their odds in '09

Rules criticized for potentially tying hands of new administration, burdening financial services industry.

Digital Government

NASA could save money through consolidation of IT purchases

Inspector general says agency should allow employees to negotiate for lower prices on equipment.

Digital Government

Final E-Verify rule kinder to small businesses

Regulation that takes effect on Jan. 15 has a higher threshold for contracts subject to the employee vetting requirement.

Ideas

Former Feds Mentioned as Possible Federal CTO

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People

FCW's The Week

Find links to articles in the Nov. 17, 2008, issue and related items.

People

Transition Watch: Obama's team to check Facebook pages

The president-elect's team is researching job candidates more carefully than past administrations, even asking for links to Facebook pages, according to the New York Times.

Acquisition

IG: NASA's ODIN could be more cost-effective

Agency officials agreed with recommendations to help managers negotiate lower prices for peripheral devices under the contract.

People

Transition Watch: Obama names first agency review teams

The people who will lead President-elect Obama’s review teams for the Departments of Treasury, State and Defense, according to the Wall Street Journal

People

Pilot program expands fingerprint databases

An agency is providing network links to jails in six counties so those facilities can better check fingerprints of criminal suspects against national law enforcement and immigrant databases.