Ideas
Don’t Play Mob Ball: What Acquisition Pros Can Learn from Kids Soccer
PEOs tend to grab onto a hot new contract approach like elementary schoolers chasing a ball.
Podcasts
Critical Update: No End in Sight For Shutdown as Costs Mount
The partial government shutdown is having dire effects across the country, not just at federal agencies.
People
Legislators look for new ways to pay feds
As furloughed feds and those working without pay face a second missed paycheck, some in Congress are looking for solutions outside of a funding deal.
Acquisition
Last chance to submit Fed 100 nominations!
Judging takes place this weekend, so all nominations must be in by 6 p.m. ET on Friday, Jan. 25.
Digital Government
FCW Insider: Jan. 24
The latest news, quick hits and other updates from FCW's reporters and editors.
Modernization
New intel strategy stresses data collection, cyber threats
A new U.S. strategy document calls for the U.S. intelligence community to boost cyber threat intelligence sharing and augment data collection and analysis capabilities.
Cybersecurity
Agencies Have 10 Days to Review, Secure Critical IT Weakness
The Homeland Security Department’s cybersecurity office issued an emergency directive requiring agencies to secure their Domain Name System infrastructure.
Modernization
The House Oversight IT Subcommittee is Dead
The panel’s responsibilities—which include oversight of FITARA and other federal tech initiatives—will be swept up by the Government Operations subcommittee.
Cybersecurity
Feds, union chief arrested protesting shutdown on Capitol Hill
While lawmakers and the White House traded barbs and remained deadlocked, protesting feds and supporters flooded a Senate office building.
Artificial Intelligence
National Intelligence Strategy Warns of Technological Threats to U.S.
Disruptive technologies will democratize capabilities previously available only to nation-states with plenty of resources.
Digital Government
The Wheels of Justice Are Grinding to a Halt
FBI agents say the government shutdown is costing them confidential sources, postponing indictments, and shutting down investigations.
Acquisition
Education reboots multibillion procurement after lawsuit
The government is looking to modernize and streamline the technology it uses for the processing and servicing of the $1.4 trillion loan portfolio guaranteed by the Education Department's Federal Student Aid office -– but it's taking a while.
Digital Government
The 2020 Census Is Still in Big Trouble
The Supreme Court may decide the fate of the citizenship question that the Trump administration wants to add to the census, and cities are bracing for chaos.
Cybersecurity
How Social Security Administration Plans to Protect Your Identity
The agency is looking for ways to identify citizens with random characters instead of Social Security numbers on agency mail.
Ideas
How to Build a Better Great Wall
The idea of creating a robust, intelligent technology barrier as opposed to a static physical one has been floated before.
Modernization
What's driving federal IT in 2019?
Disruptive technologies, customer experience, security are coming to the fore in the federal IT landscape.
Digital Government
FCW Insider: Jan. 23
The latest news, quick hits and other updates from FCW's reporters and editors.
Cybersecurity