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  • Mobility Is About Applications as Much as Hardware

    Mobility Is About Applications as Much as Hardware
    A new computing device could revolutionize mobile federal computing. It's super thin, has a potential battery life of close to nine hours, an ultra high resolution screen and a glass touchpad. It ...
  • Why Cloud Computing Will Drift In Under FedRAMP CONOPS

    Why Cloud Computing Will Drift In Under FedRAMP CONOPS
    Not only has cybersecurity started to take shape legislatively, cloud computing security has started to take shape administratively in a meaningful way. You won't find huge surprises in the grandly ...
  • Feds @ Work: OSTP's Chris Vein Innovates Innovation Itself

    Feds @ Work: OSTP's Chris Vein Innovates Innovation Itself
    Chris Vein works for two prominent Obama administration officials who are always in the limelight. Consequently Vein doesn't get a lot of publicity. If you do a search on his name, the "news" results ...
  • Feds @ Work: DHS Science Guy Dan Gerstein Looks For Fast Payoff

    Feds @ Work: DHS Science Guy Dan Gerstein Looks For Fast Payoff
    Dan Gerstein doesn't wear khaki any more, but his career in the Army still influences his approach to his current work: practical with a touch of inspiration. As deputy undersecretary for Science ...
  • OFPP's Dan Gordon Calmed Stormy Seas

    OFPP's Dan Gordon Calmed Stormy Seas
    One of the more effective members of the Obama administration, Dan Gordon guided several important cost-cutting and procurement reform initiatives. Now he is about to step down. I think it is safe to ...
  • Get Used To The Word VMO

    You might be hearing it a lot. Federal CIO Steve VanRoekel is calling for departments and major agencies to create vendor management organizations, or single-office gateways for managing ...
  • Feds@Work: Vietmeyer Works To Make DOD Elephant Dance

    Feds@Work: Vietmeyer Works To Make DOD Elephant Dance
    This story was originally published by FedInsider. Like the Gordian knot, software is the perennial unsolvable problem for federal agencies. What program manager hasn't been stymied by software ...
  • Feds @ Work: GSA's Kelley Drives Big IT Services Contract

    Feds @ Work: GSA's Kelley Drives Big IT Services Contract
    Casey Kelley has one main thing to worry about. But it's a doozy. As director of the Enterprise Acquisition Division at GSA, he's responsible for the Alliant governmentwide acquisition contract. ...
  • Lowly Contracting Representatives Get New, Needed Attention

    Lowly Contracting Representatives Get New, Needed Attention
    This article was originally published by FedInsider. The Office of Federal Procurement Policy is turning its attention to a long-neglected function, that of Contracting Officer's Technical ...
  • Feds@Work: Challenges Amid Beauty of Hawaii

    Feds@Work: Challenges Amid Beauty of Hawaii
    This article was originally published by FedInsider. Imagine moving from a high-pressure, high-visibility federal job in the pressure cooker of Washington – to Hawaii. No more need to wear a ...