Acquisition

Flyzik: Cheaper and better

Columnist Jim Flyzik has ideas on how agencies and companies can collaborate to save a billion or two.

People

IMing all the way home

The service also let airmen use the portal's instant messaging function for three months to chat with colleagues in the Middle East and the United States.

People

Adm. Stillman sets sights on Deepwater

Coast Guard's modernization effort depends on new ships and new technology

Modernization

9-11 Commission keeps network secure

Tech managers with the commission have set up a VPN.

People

USPTO lawyers: Don't penalize us for system problems

Federal trademark attorneys say proposed performance appraisals don't account for computer downtime.

People

Aeon to update DFAS system

The company will get almost $15 million to install a relational database to replace a 1960s-era financial and contracts administration system for the Defense Finance and Accounting Service.

People

In your own backyard

GSA and the CIO Council launched CIO University four years ago to train federal IT managers.

Digital Government

Helping the Children's Inn

Linda Berdine, president of G&B Solutions, talks about AFCEA's fund-raising for the Children's Inn at the National Institutes of Health.

Digital Government

Letters to the editor

Securing software; IDEF for the people!; Federal carrots and sticks

People

VA starts tech buying service

The fee-for-service program will be similar to the one run by GSA's Federal Technology Service.

People

Bandwidth proves logistical headache

The logistics problems the military experienced during Operation Iraqi Freedom mainly involved communications and distribution.

People

More money, more progress?

Some lawmakers think the Coast Guard's Deepwater program should be developed faster.

Modernization

Portables sizzle at FOSE

Tablets, handhelds expand in new directions

People

Privatizing patent searches

Shrinking the backlog with outside help

People

New Deepwater site sets sail

Coast Guard modernization depends on new ships and new technology.

People

DOD developing new logistics architecture

Goal: Improving supply chains

Digital Government

Intercepts

New math; Harvey stonewall-banger; Brig. Gen. Midas; Bull in a china shop

People

Editorial: Lessons learned

Fake degrees raise larger fundamental questions about fairness.

Modernization

Return of the ASP

Corio pitching application services to agencies

Digital Government

EPA improves security compliance

A new system helped the EPA dramatically improve its ability to follow information security regulations.