Opinion


Editorial: We’ve come a long way

When it comes to telework, technology has improved the way we do so many tasks.

Editorial: Time to apply a patch

A renewed debate about patch management has highlighted a flaw in federal officials' views on information security.

Editorial: The wrong fix

In targeting the General Services Administration's Federal Technology Service, the authors of the Senate Defense Authorization bill have gotten their priorities backward.

Kelman: Perfecting performance

When I came to work for the government about a decade ago, the Air Force was experiencing a big problem with a large information technology hardware contract called Desktop II.

Editorial: Follow the leader

By adopting a governmentwide smart card, civilian agencies could learn from DOD's approach.

Sprehe: The e-GPO

It is an interesting concept -- a printing agency where documents are never printed.

Storing e-stuff

We all have an important stake in the Electronic Records Archive program.

MIA on procurement

In a little squib announcing the nomination of David Safavian as new administrator of the Office of Federal Procurement Policy, the Washington Post headlined that the new head of the Bush administration's competitive sourcing initiative had been named.

A controversial clause

Few provisions of the schedule contracts create as much confusion and heartburn as the price reductions clause.

The perfect storm?

At this year's Executive Leadership Conference last month, the air was filled with the spirit of government/industry collaboration.

Job site gets it right

OPM's USAJobs relaunch can teach us a lot about how to do it right