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Cybersecurity training: The battle over mandates

Will mandatory cybersecurity training or licensing make government systems more secure?

Cloud computing: Is it secure enough?

New risks could cancel out potential benefits.

Forum moderator: Friend, not foe

Moderators navigate rocky waters in weeding out comments.

Davie: Inventing Acquisition 2.0

The government's acquisition process has reached a crisis.

Latest Updates

SSA to monitor social media sites
The Social Security Administration wants to monitor what the public says about the agency on social media Web sites. Jul 02, 2009
Agency will study health IT workflow
A federal health agency will study how doctors change their workflows to adapt to health IT. Jul 02, 2009
Sharing of past-performance data now mandatory Jul 02, 2009
DHS names PACTS winners Jul 02, 2009
Groups want to push back health IT deadlines Jul 02, 2009
How DHS cut costs: Software recycling, contract consolidation Jul 01, 2009
Justice tech a big winner in Senate spending bill Jul 01, 2009

Government Computer News

Defense Systems

DAVID RAPP

Editor's desk: All in moderation

Social media is changing how reader responses play into publishing Federal Computer Week. Read more

Steve Kelman

Hybrid workforces complicate outsourcing reforms

Federal human resources practices encourage blended workforce creation. Read more

John Monroe

FCW Insider

Are GWACs dead or not? Readers sound off

Readers are giving us an earful about our recent coverage of a speech about the fate of GSA’s governmentwide acquisition contracts.

Alinea

COOP: What's the drill?

Does anyone know how the U.S. government's real-time exercise went last Wednesday?

The Lectern

The Lectern: Govloop’s contracting forum

Since its launch, the Acquisition 2.0 Forum has hosted a number of discussions, most extensively on improving the process for defining requirements in services procurement.

Get a Life!

Get a Life!: Leadership lessons from White House Fellows

Former White House fellows Colin Powell and Doris Kearns Goodwin offer some leadership lessons, writes blogger Judy Welles.

John Klossner

John Klossner

Klossner: Those guys are wearing underwear on the outside ...

FCW cartoonist John Klossner imagines that open-source proponents probably encounter the same doubts that would be raised about superheroes.

Acquisition

Policy

Virtualization

Virtualization: A desktop savings plan Jul 01, 2009
Virtualization: A guide to the latest lessons learned Jul 01, 2009
Display protocols critical in desktop virtualization battle Jun 26, 2009
New organization to address interoperability between social media, ID management Jun 22, 2009
Dell introduces virtualization consulting services Jun 22, 2009

Management

Technology

Business Intelligence

DHS to sweep up more data on employees, contractors

SSA to monitor social media sites

Social media: Threat or revolution?

GAO urges improvements to FISMA

China's cybersecurity fears sound very familiar

GAO urges improvements to FISMA

DHS to sweep up more data on employees, contractors

Health IT coordinator to harmonize record standards, network

Virtualization: A guide to the latest lessons learned

DOD’s use of services contracts gets congressional scrutiny

Highlights from the current issue

Cybersecurity training: The battle over mandates

Will mandatory cybersecurity training or licensing make government systems more secure? Read more
Spacebook launches at NASA Goddard
GSA looks to corral former customers
Navy aggressive in protecting networks from enemies
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eSeminar

Find opportunity in the cloud
Washington Technology presents Patrick Stingley, chief technology officer of the Bureau of Land Management, in a recent eSeminar, where he explains opportunities and challenges of the federal government adoption of cloud computing. Read more

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