Evans named vice chair of CIO Council
Energy Department CIO <b>Karen Evans</b> is the new vice chairwoman of the CIO Council.<br>
Post Newsweek gala: Big night in 'a small town'
'It's like old home week,' said Chip Mather, shouting to be heard above the roar of conversation in the Washington Hilton and Towers' playing-field-size grand ballroom.
'02 in review: what GCN's readers thought
Variety was certainly the spice of the GCN Reader Survey in 2002.
James: building a new culture for federal work
At the very top of President Bush's management agenda is developing strategic management of human capital. 'We must have government that thinks differently, so we need to recruit talented and imaginative people to public service,' Bush has said. As director of the Office of Personnel Management, Kay Coles James is one of the principal leaders in the administration's efforts to transform government. The federal IT work force will play a critical role in administration's management revolution, James says. GCN staff writer Richard W. Walker recently interviewed James in her Washington office about government IT work force problems and how the administration plans to pass the daunting tests ahead.
Recruiting, management policies on front burner
Last April the Office of Personnel Management and the federal CIO Council collaborated on a modest pilot project to demonstrate a new approach to recruiting and hiring federal IT workers.
Shortage of IT workers reaches a critical stage
Everybody in government is intensely aware of the IT work force problem. Make that crisis.You know the grim picture. You've heard the dire statistics over and over.
For many, price keeps LCDs out of the picture
Are high prices keeping an LCD monitor off your desk? You're not alone.
Reader survey: Feds identify hot technologies
When GCN launched in 1982, there was no Internet'at least not as we know it now.
DOD expects industry to help it achieve net-centricity
For the Defense Department, doing business on the Internet isn't exactly like, say, selling books online. The stakes are ineffably higher.
Can DOD transform itself?
For Defense Department officials and Donald Rumsfeld, if anything confirmed the IT-dominant direction outlined a year ago in the Quadrennial Defense Review, it was the Afghanistan campaign. Crossing bleak and craggy terrain, U.S. special operations forces riding on horseback with Afghan Northern Alliance fighters used satellite telephones and portable laser target designators to guide B-52 strikes on Taliban targets.
Product reliability makes the IT choice easy
Here's why a network administrator at Eglin Air Force Base in Florida wants the IT products he buys to be reliable: 'It makes my job easier.'
GCN survey: There's a stronger sense of purpose
Rank-and-file federal IT workers have a moderately stronger sense of purpose and higher morale since last Sept. 11, a GCN survey found. And security is decidedly tighter on all federal fronts.
HOW WE'VE CHANGED/POLICY: In the wake of the attacks, altered government IT landscape, morale
The events of Sept. 11 rocked the world. They also rattled government IT to its core, transforming the way officials view systems and information security. For agency CIOs, Sept. 11 rendered brutally real the potential of a terrorist attack that would physically devastate their information infrastructures, said <b>Paul Strassman</b>, NASA's acting CIO.
User upgrades govern procurement plans
Upgrading user hardware and software will be the biggest driver of IT spending in the next year, a GCN telephone survey of government IT procurement officials found.
Online IT shopping has become a regular hit
Buying IT products on the Web has become a matter of routine for most government managers.
Single sign-on reduces headaches, costs at PTO
One industry analyst hails it as the "Holy Grail of many organizations." It's single sign-on.
Security's part of big picture
For agencies, the enterprise defines most IT objectives--including systems security. "You need to have an agencywide perspective on a lot of things associated with overall enterprise architecture," said French Caldwell, vice president and research director for Gartner Inc. of Stamford, Conn., and a former program analyst in the Office of the Secretary of the Navy.
With A-76 in flux, what should managers do?
The changes being proposed for A-76 have left agency managers in limbo.
Rebuilding
Three months after the Commercial Activities Panel released its final report on the role of Office of Management and Budget Circular A-76, the dust has yet to settle.
Can OMB's rebuilt A-76 find consensus?
The Office of Management and Budget's Circular A-76 may be an oldie, but it's no goodie.
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