Modernization

FlipSide

Ouch! Brain cramp!

People

Kelman: Let’s promote the IT Exchange

The program can improve trust between feds and industry and foster more information sharing

People

Another post-Katrina problem: What happened to the street?

Hurricane response highlighted the need to standardize digital maps

People

CDW consolidates sales

The company is reorganizing to unify its sales activities and share best practices between public sector and commercial operations.

People

Bush budget squeezes first responders

2007 spending plan would hurt state and local programs

Modernization

You don’t need a weatherman…

WeatherBug’s strength lies in its vast network of data

People

Welles: Don’t leave yet, but if you must…

OPM’s Springer says feds must think carefully before retiring and managers must get ready now

Modernization

The Pipeline

WebLayers releases policy enforcer; Phoenix helps PCs recover from crashes.

People

GSA memo: Agency officials freeze hiring

GSA's Acting Administrator David Bibb has ordered a hiring freeze for general management and administration staff at the central and regional offices.

People

E-File goal too ambitious

Oversight board says 80 percent mark needs extension

Digital Government

Comings and goings

Linda Cureton, deputy CIO at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, was named CIO at NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center; David Zeppieri, former CIO at the Transportation Security Administration, was named vice president of strategic development at Project Performance Corp.

Cybersecurity

Editorial: The dangers of secrecy

A representative democracy only works when the actions of individuals and the operations of institutions are transparent

Modernization

Army stuck in a WIN-T quandary

Program and funding issues could impede future communications system

Modernization

Visionaries needed

Agencies are facing a telecom revolution with few big thinkers to lead

Digital Government

Perlowitz: Ease growing pains

Current size standards can’t keep pace with the government's contract needs

Digital Government

Unfurling wireless mesh

New gear expands coverage of wireless networks, but proprietary products prevail

People

Google Video shows Archives' movies

Google announces partnership with the National Archives and Records Administration to make historic movies viewable online for free.

People

Feds cope with the ‘greener pastures’ syndrome

Some CIOs make a career of jumping the fence and, in many ways, are richer for doing it

Acquisition

Companies cope with tight federal budget

Some firms are better positioned than others to adjust to the new world