Modernization
Friend of Barack
Michael Robertson is taking his skills - and his political connections - to GSA, where he was recently installed in three key positions: Associate director of governmentwide policy, chief acquisition officer and White House liaison.
Modernization
Microsoft formally appeals Word patent ruling
Microsoft has formally appealed a judgment issued last week that would require the company to stop selling Microsoft Word within the United States.
People
Imagine a world without Word
If Microsoft is barred from selling Word, agencies would find alternative products and workarounds, observers say.
People
The next phase of Network Centric Solutions
Gregory Garcia discusses the structure of the new NetCents-2 contract and what it means for users and small businesses.
People
A call for action, not studies
Former OFPP Administrator Dee Lee argues that a well-trained workforce is the most important ingredient for acquisition success.
Modernization
State plans to seek help for data center consolidation
The State Department plans to award a task order for help with its data center consolidation program.
Acquisition
Agencies push small-biz outreach efforts
Commerce Department and Small Business Administration officials plan more than 200 events before mid-October.
Modernization
Microsoft seeks stay in Word patent dispute
Microsoft has filed an emergency motion to stay last week's ruling ordering the company to stop selling Word in the U.S.
Acquisition
New NIH manager gives Acquisition Center a facelift
The center cut its assisted acquisition services and aimed those resources at customer service, manager says.
Modernization
Federal future cloudy for Microsoft Word
Agencies are wondering how a court's ruling banning Microsoft from selling Word will affect their procurement plans.
Modernization
Former EPA official wants to bring new IT to government
In her new role at CGI Federal, Molly O’Neill plans to draw on her past experience with issues such as data sharing and Web 2.0.
Acquisition
GSA launches new mentor program for small businesses
GSA expects the mentoring program to increase the number of small businesses getting its contracts and subcontracts.
Acquisition
NIH emphasizes health IT in its new $20 billion contract
National Institutes of Health officials expect to award the 10-year, $20 billion Chief Information Officer—Solutions and Partners 3 contract in early 2010.
People
VA tries new 'corporate' acquisition
The Veterans Affairs Department is struggling with a 26 percent vacancy rate in its acquisition staff, Deputy Secretary W. Scott Gould said today as he outlined a new "corporate" approach to the buying process.
Modernization
Court ruling puts brakes on sales of Microsoft Word
Microsoft's loss in a patent dispute with Toronto-based i4i LP means that it will have to stop selling Microsoft Word in U.S. markets. The issue concerns the use of "custom XML" in Word in the Microsoft Office 2003 and Microsoft Office 2007 productivity suites.
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DISA director emphasizes contractor workforce importance
Lt. Gen. Carroll Pollett, director of the Defense Information Systems Agency, reiterated the importance of the contract workforce to DISA at an industry presentation Aug. 7, especially, he said, as the agency faces moving its staff to Fort Meade next year.
People
Dangerous liaisons: When agencies and contractors get too close
Are ethical breaches a common occurrence in government-industry partnerships? Some readers say that is definitely the case.
Modernization
Microsoft ordered to stop selling Word
Court rules that Microsoft stop selling flagship Word as a result of a patent dispute with Canadian company i4i.
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Insourcing and the politics of government job security
One big difference between the government and contractor workforces, as one reader sees it, is that when agencies cut jobs, they typically reassign personnel to new positions, but when contractors cut jobs, they cut staff.
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