People
GSA leadership shuffle dominates water-cooler talk
It seems likely that the General Services Administration will soon have a new leader.
People
Employee shortages hit Protective Service
The Federal Protective Service has reduced some security measures at government buildings because of a 20 percent cut in staff levels since fiscal 2004.
People
OFPP offers new guidelines to improve interagency contracting
Some say OFPP’s new policy guidance might be too little, too late to offer effective oversight.
Modernization
BBN field tests portable translator
BBN Technologies has developed a translation device that enables a two-way dialogue between speakers of different languages.
Modernization
A new life for talk-to-text?
Efforts of speech-recognition developers could pay off as a smart application for smart phones.
People
Editorial: Defending CIO bloggers
The role of the CIO is to stay ahead of the train and guide the track.
People
Meagher: Information security has few friends at the top
Security requires having an agency’s senior executive team say it will happen, Interior's deputy CIO says.
Digital Government
Security pieces come together
Deadlines for several federal cybersecurity initiatives are coming due this summer.
People
Telework: Good policy, better practice
The more managers can test the continuity-of-operations plans in nonemergency situations, the better the organization will handle the real emergencies.
Digital Government
Defense plans to withdraw Hight's nomination to head DISA
Department declines to identify other candidates for head of its top information and telecommunications agency.
Digital Government
What's Brewin: DISA — No longer the agency everyone loves to hate
In an end-of-tour interview, Director Lt. Gen. Charles Croom talks about keeping employees, managing bandwidth and his future.
Digital Government
CBP launches online system to report trade violations
Companies or whistleblowers within companies can use e-Allegations to file claims.
Digital Government
Large task order contracts now open to protest
Contractors who feel passed over in competitions can take their case to GAO.
People
IBM: Collaboration will expand CIOs' roles
The challenges the federal government will confront in 2020 will require continuous collaboration, according to the IBM Institute for Business Value.
People
Welles: The power of being positive
A new book,‘Focus on the Good Stuff,’ suggests we need to look at what goes right.
People
How secure is your COOP?
Contingency planners, such as New York’s William Pelgrin, must balance recovering quickly from a disaster with recovering safely.
Digital Government
FCW's The Week
Find links to articles in the June 23, 2008, issue and related items.
Acquisition
Letter: Contract types don't depend on employee numbers
A reader writes, "More and better-trained employees does not automatically translate into fewer of [sole source]/no-bid and cost-plus contracts."
People