Acquisition

Editorial: A cure for set-aside ills

To avoid overreliance on big systems integrators, the challenge is recognizing the opportunities where small businesses bring a lot to the table.

People

Buzz of the Week: Dorobek joins Doan on the airwaves

Federal Computer Week enters new era after Editor-in-Chief Christopher J. Dorobek moves on to Federal News Radio.

People

FlipSide: BLM: In search of history

A team of Bureau of Land Management employees has digitized about 4.2 million records so far with a goal of posting another 200,000 this year.

People

Engagement, not page views, key to online success

Jeffrey Taylor, founder of Monster.com, says most organizations still have a Web 1.0 mind-set.

Digital Government

OMB: Small-biz bill would hurt federal R&D programs

The SBIR/STTR Reauthorization Act would increase funding for small-business research activity at the expense of core research at numerous agencies, according to the Bush administration.

People

A Davis retrospective: 12 years of making news

Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.), who announced today that he would not seek another term, has been focused on information technology issues since his very first term in 1996, as seen in this career retrospective.

Acquisition

FCW Forum: Too many contractors?

Over-reliance on contractors threatens to erode institutional knowledge, readers say.

People

John Stein Monroe | Telework’s digital tether

FCW Forum blog generates a lively exchange about what it means to work outside the office

Digital Government

Letter: It makes sense to ban use of private PCs for government work

Governmental computers (at least at my facility) are so locked down that it takes longer to do your work, assuming you can access the resources or perform the computing task required.

People

Letter: Time to escape our 1940s mentality about telework

The future is now. My organization is struggling with space issues. Telework is the new capital of productivity for IT organizations. And yet we are trapped in the 1940s' mentality of build a bigger building for a bigger workforce.