Managers fret about security for wireless units
When the subject is wireless technologies, security vulnerabilities are what first spring to the minds of government IT managers.
FedBizOpps finds mark of success as DOD enlists
To Federal Supply Service officials, it was the demise of the Defense Department's online procurement site last July that officially marked the rise of FSS' FedBizOpps.
Defense's Lee to advise on Iraq reconstruction
Deidre Lee will temporarily leave her post as procurement director for the Defense Department to help with Iraq reconstruction procurements. <br>
Sole source: FedBizOpps portal sets standard for integrated government
What began life as a small electronic-procurement pilot at NASA has grown into an e-government giant.
'Too many patches!' vex systems managers
Amid the onslaught of malicious code attacking Microsoft Corp. software, it isn't surprising that government IT managers participating in a GCN telephone survey fretted about security weaknesses in their Windows network operating systems.
Experience is key to a project manager's success
When it comes to qualifications for IT project managers, there's no substitute for experience, government managers said in a GCN telephone survey.
On the horizon?
Most top-level information officers in the federal government are using contract personnel to make up for shortages in their IT work forces, a GCN executive survey has found. Seventeen CIOs, deputy CIOs and chief technology officers responded to the survey late last month.
When programmers ruled, everyone lived by the code
Turn the clock back 30 years and you encounter a very different work force in government computing.
The business end of IT drives change
Mirroring the drive to transform government, the federal IT work force is undergoing its own transformation.
The work force transforms, creating new challenges for federal managers
The federal government's IT work force is moving from short sleeves and pocket protectors to button-down shirts and pocket PCs.
Keeping PCs up-to-date takes financial savvy
Keeping up with advances in technology and getting the funding to do so are the biggest hurdles in upgrading government PCs, say procurement and IT managers who took part in a recent GCN telephone survey.
Online Extra: Hiring, keeping the best IT workers
Here is a complete list of verbatim comments from respondents to a GCN e-mail survey about the Bush administration's work-force policies and competitive sourcing/A-76 initiative.<br>
Feds knock the administration's A-76 initiative
Government IT professionals responding to a recent GCN e-mail survey were overwhelmingly critical of the Bush administration's competitive-sourcing initiative.
Portal puts TRICARE in the transaction game
For Navy Capt. Brian Kelly, Web portals are happening. 'Information is great but the real value of portals'the real return on investment'is when you begin to move things to a self-service model,' said Kelly, director of e-business, policy and standards for TRICARE, the Defense Department's military health service.
In Phase 2, online is just the starting point
The road to e-government might look like an uphill climb to government managers. But it's not like they have a choice.The 25 Quicksilver projects that have dominated the Office of Management and Budget's push toward e-government for the last couple of years are nearing completion. Now it's time for managers across government to join the march.
Transactions are a precursor to achieving transformation
Can agencies deliver?The Government Paperwork Elimination Act, which requires agencies to provide the means for citizens and businesses to submit documents electronically, was signed into law five years ago. Now, its October deadline looms.
Verbatim: Defense IT specialists show staying power
The complete list of verbatim comments from respondents to a GCN e-mail survey about government IT work force trends.
South Carolina's security chief worries about insider mistakes
Sometimes it's the little things that cause the big problems.Jim MacDougall, director of advanced technologies and acting chief information security officer in South Carolina's CIO office, knows this well.
At EPA, security is an inside job
For Mark Day, deputy CIO at the Environmental Protection Agency, the insider threat always looms large'largest, in fact.
Dacey: Agencies need smarter, stronger security management
Robert F. Dacey is the General Accounting Office's director of information security. He's been working on IT security for GAO since 1991. Before that, Dacey worked for the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche LLP. He has a degree from George Mason University Law School. Associate editor Richard W. Walker interviewed Dacey in his office in Washington.
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