EDITOR'S DESK: Penny-pinching still proves costly at DHS
U.S. Customs and Border Protection agents weren't alone last week in having their computer systems bedeviled by virus attacks.
Government Leader expands with new website, e-letter
Government Leader, the new magazine launched earlier this year by PostNewsweek Tech Media, now offers a growing roster of insightful management stories, profiles and practical leadership tips online at <a href="http://www.governmentleader.com/">GovernmentLeader.com</a>.
EDITOR'S DESK: Closing the performance gap
If agency CIOs lament the big gap between the way their IT departments perform today and the way they'd like to see them perform, they're not alone.
EDITOR'S DESK: Transportation security imbalance
If something constructive came out of the London bombing tragedy earlier this month, it was the renewed debate over how the United States spends its homeland defense dollars.
EDITOR'S DESK: Data heists: Compliance remains the weakest link
The news last month that 40 million credit card accounts had potentially been compromised, and records for 200,000 had been stolen, was perhaps the most stunning example yet of the challenges of cybersecurity.
EDITOR'S DESK: Lessons of NMCI
Few federal projects have attracted as much second-guessing within IT circles as the Navy-Marine Corps Intranet.
AFFIRM honors Holcomb, others for executive leadership
Lee Holcomb, whose work on NASA's Voyager mission earlier in his career imbued him with the notion to dream big, received the Association for Federal Information Resources Management's highest honor earlier this week.
Geodata.gov to get enhanced Web site tools
Geospatial mapping tools are likely to gain broader use and visibility for government agencies and the private sector with the planned July release of Version 2 of <a href= "http://Geodata.gov">Geodata.gov,</a>.
Geodata.gov to release enhanced website tools
Geospatial mapping tools are likely to gain broader use and visibility for government agencies and the private sector with the planned release in July of version 2 of Geodata.gov.
EDITOR'S DESK: Gates on labor
For a man whose company was once chided for ignoring the value of maintaining a presence in Washington, Microsoft's chairman Bill Gates made more than a little splash in town late last month.
HHS's Havekost to co-chair CIO Council best practices committee
Charles Havekost, the Health and Human Services Department CIO, has been director for Grants Management and Policy at HHS and program manager for the Grants.gov e-government initiative.
EDITOR'S DESK: Leadership Instincts
For all that's been written about great leaders'and the principles by which they live'most of us consider ourselves lucky to have worked for someone at least once in our careers who actually embodied extraordinary leadership skills.
EDITOR'S DESK: Workforce study raises fair concerns
The looming retirement of thousands of senior IT professionals from the federal government is stirring new workforce capacity concerns.
Latest projection has IT budget on upward trend
Federal IT spending will remain on the fast track through the end of the decade, according to a new forecast from Input.
Forecast sees federal IT spending on the rise
Federal IT spending will remain on the fast track through the end of the decade, according to a forecast released today by Input.
EDITOR'S DESK: Uncommon chance at a common language
Each year federal, state and local governments spend billions of dollars in pursuit of an elusive goal: to share information simply and securely.
EDITOR'S DESK: FBI IT foul-up: The case for oversight
The reaction was swift and predictable when FBI director Robert Mueller delivered the grim news at a Senate Appropriations subcommittee hearing earlier this month that the agency's three-year, $170 million effort to build the highly touted Virtual Case File system now appears destined to be scrapped.
EDITOR'S DESK: Do protests need their own line item?
The arc of consolidation casts many shadows.
States continue to join EPA Exchange Network
States are buying in to the Environmental Information Exchange Network, with six adding nodes in the past six weeks.
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