Laptop is one tough traveler
The Panasonic Toughbook W4 makes a nice travel companion with its semirugged features in an ultralight design.
The dervish is in the details
Despite funding cuts, Susan Smoter updated the irs.gov site and recently earned a five-point increase in customer satisfaction on the American Customer Satisfaction Index.
Change manager
Barbara Hoffman, investment and performance management team leader for the Department of Navy CIO, is described by admiring colleagues as a risk-taker who doesn't make enemies.
OMB considering shared-services provider model for HSPD-12
The Office of Management and Budget has asked the Executive Steering Committee for Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 to devise a plan for agencies to share the cost of registering employees and printing their smart identification cards.
Recasting the privacy officer
Privacy officers can shed the naysayer stereotype by helping IT officials build privacy controls earlier in the systems development life cycle.
Bush moves quickly on SBA top post
Minutes after incumbent Small Business Administration administrator Hector Barreto announced his resignation, President Bush nominated Steven Preston to be Barreto's successor.
Online extra | Moving to a COE easier through change management
Part of Treasury's overall plan to migrate to HR Connect was a two-pronged change management plan.
Online extra | Florida case offers lessons-learned for outsourcing
While Florida's contract with Convergys Corp. of Cincinnati to consolidate and process human resource services for 32 state agencies has produced substantial benefits, it also serves as a stark example of what can go wrong when a government agency outsources certain functions to the private sector.
Hallowed ground gets wired
Thurman Higginbotham, deputy director of operations at Arlington National Cemetery, never misses an opportunity to pitch his vision for a fully automated information management system at ANC. Sometimes, it really pays off.
Bridge builder
Anyone who has worked in government knows it's not easy to get city, county and local agencies to agree on anything. Patricia Curtis has made a career of it.
Straight shooter
An engineer at Defense Medical Logistics Standard Support realized that he could write an open-source encryptographic module that secures data. Debra Bonner, director of operations for DMLSS, was the catalyst for moving the program forward.
Hard job, soft sell
Someone once described the mission of the Pentagon Renovation and Construction Program Office, known as PenRen, as trying to convert an old black-and-white television to color while it's being watched by viewers who expect no interruption in programming.
Gaining Hill support for departmental IT projects
The Labor Department developed an approach to consolidate agencywide IT procurement purchases without drawing the ire of Congress. And it could be a model for how other agencies could gain support for cross-agency initiatives from Capitol Hill.
OMB to agencies: Comply with A-76 rules
The Office of Management and Budget reminded agencies of limits Congress placed on their ability to use 'best-value tradeoffs' when competing inherently commercial jobs against the private sector under OMB Circular A-76.
HHS expects new health IT czar by summer
The Health and Human Services Department anticipates naming a new national coordinator for health IT by the end of summer, said David Brailer, the outgoing first national coordinator for health IT.
Profiles in Persistence
One of the qualities especially salient among this year's GCN IT Leadership Award winners is sustained and exceptional accomplishment. All have labored long and hard in the government trenches, beginning in modest jobs and emerging as dazzling examples of the sort of leaders who are helping to transform government with their vision'and the ability to rally fellow employees around that vision.
Verizon offers wireless priority service
The service is a federal program that gives priority network access to national security and emergency preparedness officials in times of emergency.
OFPP: Best value works for A-76
WILLIAMSBURG, Va.'The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is trying to convince lawmakers of the benefits of using best value'rather than just lowest price'for competing inherently commercial jobs with the private sector under OMB Circular A-76.
Cadenas gets added VA responsibilities
The Veterans Affairs Department has named Pedro Cadenas Jr. acting deputy CIO and acting deputy assistant secretary for the Office of Information Technology, effective April 30.
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