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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

Sharing of past-performance data now mandatory
A revised FAR rule requires agencies to use a standard database to share contractors' performance information with one another. Jul 02, 2009
DHS names PACTS winners
The Homeland Security Department has awarded the $1.5 billion PACTS contract for professional services. Jul 02, 2009
Agency will study health IT workflow Jul 02, 2009
Groups want to push back health IT deadlines Jul 02, 2009
SSA to monitor social media sites Jul 02, 2009
How DHS cut costs: Software recycling, contract consolidation Jul 01, 2009
GAO urges improvements to FISMA 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
Dell introduces virtualization consulting services Jun 22, 2009
New organization to address interoperability between social media, ID management Jun 22, 2009

Management

Technology

Business Intelligence

DHS to sweep up more data on employees, contractors

GAO urges improvements to FISMA

Social media: Threat or revolution?

China's cybersecurity fears sound very familiar

Cyber command in urgent need of strategy, military leaders say

DHS to sweep up more data on employees, contractors

GAO urges improvements to FISMA

Health IT coordinator to harmonize record standards, network

Virtualization: A guide to the latest lessons learned

Justice tech a big winner in Senate spending bill

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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