Acquisition
Editorial: GSA's Alliant lessons
GSA needs to take proactive steps to assure its customers that they can have faith in the government's contracting organization.
People
GAO: Suggestions welcome
How former Comptroller General David Walker began transforming the agency.
People
Letter: Other agencies must rely on GSA for purchasing
[The Office of Management and Budget] needs to get GSA back into the streamlined acquisition business. DOD does not need it's own acquisition offices for purchasing the same things that the rest of the government is purchasing.
People
Letter: In retaining workforce, reach out to employees
I'm confused by the initiatives lately that are seeking ways to retain (and continue to recruit) a decent federal government contracting workforce. Why are these initiatives not reaching out to the employees themselves?
People
Letter: Jobs posted publicly are for existing favored employees
[The] information I have uncovered through discussions with government FTE' is that most of those positions are reserved to internal selected candidates. The process must be advertised as "public," but the hiring process has wording in "favor" of the internal candidate.
People
Energy agency launches performance-based pay system
The National Nuclear Security Administration has begun a five-year pilot project with the Office of Personnel Management to test a new performance-based pay system.
Digital Government
SOA experts: Learn to speak business
The next major hurdle for enterprise architecture is convincing agency managers that it solves business problems.
Acquisition
GSA to reevaluate Alliant bids
A Court of Federal Claims decision has led the agency to reconsider the proposals.
People
Embrace middle management...
...And other ways to prepare your organization for big changes in IT strategies and policies.
Digital Government
National health records network to expand
HHS initiative also will integrate electronic health records from Defense, Veterans Affairs, Indian Health Service and other agencies.
Digital Government
Contractor tests missile defense tech for civilian airliners
Northrop's Guardian System, along with a parallel program still in the works by BAE Systems, could provide aircraft with needed protection from shoulder-fired surface-to-air missiles, an easily acquired weapon that is popular with terrorists.
Digital Government
GPO: Article 'misstated' facts of offshoring e-passport production
Congress still concerned about security of work processes for the high-tech passports.
Digital Government
Letter: Krieger is leading the charge for SOA
A reader says he hopes Michael Krieger’s efforts to promote service-oriented architecture will continue into the next administration.
People
Letter: Private sector should protect public infrastructure
A reader says industry should have to follow the government’s security guidelines for the three-quarters of the public infrastructure that it controls.
People
Report: Army relies heavily on contractors for acquisition support
A better balance is needed between hiring contractors and having government employees perform contracting work, a DOD acquisition official said.
People