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Published October 15, 2007

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FEATURES

Power Players | 10 - Anne Armstrong and Neal Vitale
Armstrong is president and group publisher of 1105 Government Information Group and Vitale is president and chief executive officer of 1105 Media.

Power Players | 9 - Paul Brubaker
Administrator of the Transportation Department’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration.

Power Players | 8 - Martha Dorris, Venkatapathi Puvvada and Leslie Steele
Dorris is president of the American Council for Technology, Puvvada is chairman of the Industry Advisory Council, and Steele is executive vice chairwoman of IAC.

Power Players | 7 - Scott Charbo and Robert Howard
Charbo is chief information officer at the Homeland Security Department, and Howard is CIO at the Veterans Affairs Department.

Power Players | 6 - Rep. Tom Davis (R-Va.)
Ranking member of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

Power Players | 5 - David Walker
Comptroller General of the United States.

Power Players | 4 - Shay Assad
Director of procurement and acquisition policy at the Defense Department.

Power Players | 3 - David Wennergren
Deputy assistant secretary of Defense for information management and technology and deputy chief information officer and vice chairman of the CIO Council.

Power Players | 2 - Karen Evans
Administrator of e-government and information technology at the Office of Management and Budget.

Power Players | 1 - Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.)
Chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.

What makes a Power Player?
By Christopher J. Dorobek
FCW's second annual Power Players special report recognizes the most prominent deciders in the government IT community.

NEWS

Circuit
By FCW Staff
Rossotti, Lee and Setian honoredCharles Rossotti, co-founder of American Management Systems and former commissioner of the Internal Revenue Service, has been chosen as the Hall of Fame recipient for the 2007 Greater Washington Government Contractor Awards. Rossotti, senior adviser to the Carlyle Group, is receiving the award for his work in building a successful business and for helping lay the foundation for the contracting industry as a whole. The Public Sector Partner of the Year award went…

Buzz of the Week | Government IT gets wiki-ed
Last week, government information technology met the wiki world in a public way when GovITwiki.com was launched.

COMMENT

Kelman: The art of negotiation
By Steve Kelman
Many contracting officials are showing business savvy on behalf of the government. GSA should help them.

Welles: Avoid e-mail drudgery
By Judy Welles
Cleaning up message clutter simply requires following these 9 principles of organization

Wagner: Why SOA matters
By G. Martin Wagner
Service-oriented architecture might seem difficult, but it offers government a way out of the swamp

Editorial: Fixing the spree
By Christopher J. Dorobek
We are two weeks into the new fiscal year, and nearly everyone is recovering from the annual end-of-year spending spree.

Klossner | Editorial Cartoon
By John Klossner
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MANAGEMENT

Patent examiners struggle with backlog
By Wade-Hahn Chan
GAO finds high turnover rate and quotas impede the patent review process

Michigan IT shop faces cuts
By John Moore
Legislature averted a government shutdown, but the state’s IT staffing remains uncertain

Mary Lacey brokers pay changes
By Richard W. Walker
Program executive leads DOD through a difficult personnel system transformation

Do feds get paid enough?
By Ben Bain
Opinions vary on how well federal employees are compensated

TECHNOLOGY

FEMA readies emergency system
By Wade-Hahn Chan
Web-based disaster response system will push timely information to first responders

Technology briefs
Adobe PDF bug jeopardizes securityThe Adobe PDF could be used to compromise a system running on Microsoft Windows XP, Adobe confirmed last week week. Remote code embedded in a PDF could be executed in Versions 8.1 and earlier of Adobe Reader, Adobe Acrobat or Acrobat Elements. Adobe Acrobat 3D is also vulnerable. All those programs must be used in conjunction with Internet Explorer 7 to trigger the exploitation. According to the SANS Institute, which…

Mike Butler wants to card you
By Brian Robinson
Leader of GSA’s smart card program will use his vision to guide the HSPD-12 effort

PROCUREMENT

Meet Mr. Procurement Policy
By Matthew Weigelt
Robert Burton sets directions for OFPP and steers governmentwide acquisition

IG warns against year-end spending frenzy at IRS
By Matthew Weigelt
At IRS, hurried spending leads to wasteful errors

States get SmartBuy discounts
By Mary Mosquera
SafeBoot extends USDA’s discount prices for encryption to state, local governments

POLICY

Maj. Gen. Lord is a groundbreaker
By Sebastian Sprenger
As cyberattacks escalate, Lord has a new role as the Air Force’s chief cyberwarrior

Web 2.0 applications disrupt previous security measures
By Wade-Hahn Chan
As government agencies use more applications based on Webservices, new vulnerabilities in those programs threaten to circumvent traditional cybersecurity.

VA revisits data consolidation plan
By Mary Mosquera
The Veterans Affairs Department must answer new questions about its data center consolidation strategy after its electronic health records system was unusable for nine hours at 17 VA medical facilities Aug. 31, and backup procedures failed.

FLIPSIDE

Top 20 contracts feds like to use
By FCW Staff
The 20 most-used government IT contracts

Management:

Agencies struggle with pay for performance
Many believe in rewarding results, but the details on how it can work prove devilish.

Policy:

Old-school recordkeeping meets the Digital Age
Authorities offer different prescriptions for managing electronic files.

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Youthful thinking
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