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Is the Defense Travel System finally ready to fly?
Expanding the system to accommodate trips for purposes other than temporary-duty travel is a Defense Department priority

Buzz of the Week: The space economy

• Read NASA Administrator Michael Griffin’s speech about the space economy [.pdf]

Young promises acquisition changes
New policy mandates use of competitive prototyping in large Defense programs

Bush threatens to veto a bill that would stengthen IGs

• Web extra: "Davis proposes a new role for inspectors general"

State issues new rules for Blackwater

Circuit

Editorial: Assisting acquisitions
GSA's assisted services business is too important to let fail. Here are three steps to make it work.

Kelman: The hiring season is here

• "Kelman: A public service incentive"
• "Kelman: Battling for young hearts and minds"
• Read Kelman's blog, The Lectern
  

Forman: A fiscal perfect storm

MANAGEMENT

Intell teams get ready for action
New program offers intensive training for early-career intelligence analysts

EVM replaces spreadsheets

Retiree bills face uncertain future

A paperless manifesto: 7 proposals
Early adopters in the digital records revolution share tips on winning conversion battles

PROCUREMENT

Treasury first to jump to Networx
After three years of controversy, the agency begins its network modernization project

No pain, no gain on small-biz goals

POLICY

DISA rethinks its security strategies
Defense Department’s net-centric data policies expose weaknesses in operational awareness

VA defends its IT recovery plans

Confusion over fusion centers

Army reasserts LandWarNet goals

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