Ideas

EU Asks Google About Privacy Practices

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Ideas

FBI's Lax Security Gets Worldwide Attention

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People

Ryan becomes Mercury's VP for its federal business unit

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Acquisition

Guerra: Performance-based acquisition is not working

OMB may be praising agencies' progress on using such contracts, but they are just the same prescriptive contracts with a new name.

Digital Government

Tech to monitor offenders isn't enough

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Cybersecurity

Air Force examines its vulnerability to cyberattack

The service assigned an advisory board to assess potential cyberwarfare scenarios and determine their effect on Air Force systems and operations.

People

IG: Contract data late, incorrect

Data entered manually rather than downloaded to the Federal Procurement Data System-Next Generation is to blame, GSA's inspector general says.

Digital Government

Web 2.0 doesn't necessarily mean entertainment

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Acquisition

Kelman: It's all in the requirements

What makes successful IT projects? For many, it's obvious.

Modernization

FlipSide

FCW@20: The software improvement game

Digital Government

Offenders under electronic watch

Authorities expand monitoring of offenders, but other public priorities compete for funds.

Modernization

Editorial: Embracing change

We in the IT community have dealt with change for years, but the pace seems to be quickening.

People

Wagner: Lead with the mission

How to transcend the IT stuff and get to the point, which is enabling agency programs to succeed.

People

Congress watches its own watchdog

Lawmakers probe employee complaints about GAO’s new personnel system.

Modernization

Coming soon: the Autobahn network

Federal agencies will be able to reserve a fast lane on one of the world’s fastest networks.

People

Buzz of the Week

Doan’s BlackBerry talks

Acquisition

Senators unhappy with SBA

Kerry’s committee decries lack of progress on meeting the needs of small businesses.

Digital Government

Circuit

A younger, hipper 'Fore!'

People

DOD's high-risk culture

Salespeople who promise leaps in technology are more appealing to DOD's leaders than modest peddlers who offer incremental improvements.