People
Letter: Pay for performance bad from taxpayers' perspective
Although pay for performance is good for workers, the government must define who judges performance and what performance is.
Digital Government
VA revisits data consolidation plan
The Veterans Affairs Department must answer new questions about its data center consolidation strategy after its electronic health records system was unusable for nine hours at 17 VA medical facilities Aug. 31, and backup procedures failed.
Digital Government
Web 2.0 applications disrupt previous security measures
As government agencies use more applications based on Webservices, new vulnerabilities in those programs threaten to circumvent traditional cybersecurity.
Digital Government
Maj. Gen. Lord is a groundbreaker
As cyberattacks escalate, Lord has a new role as the Air Force’s chief cyberwarrior
Acquisition
States get SmartBuy discounts
SafeBoot extends USDA’s discount prices for encryption to state, local governments
Acquisition
IG warns against year-end spending frenzy at IRS
At IRS, hurried spending leads to wasteful errors
People
Meet Mr. Procurement Policy
Robert Burton sets directions for OFPP and steers governmentwide acquisition
People
Mary Lacey brokers pay changes
Program executive leads DOD through a difficult personnel system transformation
People
Michigan IT shop faces cuts
Legislature averted a government shutdown, but the state’s IT staffing remains uncertain
People
Patent examiners struggle with backlog
GAO finds high turnover rate and quotas impede the patent review process
Digital Government
Circuit
Rossotti, Lee and Setian honoredCharles Rossotti, co-founder of American Management Systems and former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, has been chosen as the Hall of Fame recipient for the 2007 Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards. Rossotti, senior adviser to the Carlyle Group, is receiving the award for his work in building a successful business and for helping lay the foundation for the contracting industry as a whole. The Public Sector Partner of the Year award went…
People
What makes a Power Player?
FCW's second annual Power Players special report recognizes the most prominent deciders in the government IT community.
Acquisition
Editorial: Fixing the spree
We are two weeks into the new fiscal year, and nearly everyone is recovering from the annual end-of-year spending spree.
People
Privacy, security depend on program managers, experts say
Executives responsible for their organizations' compliance with security and privacy rules push them down to program managers to follow through in daily operations.
Digital Government