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Published June 23, 2008

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FEATURES

How secure is your COOP?
By Alan Joch
Contingency planners, such as New York’s William Pelgrin, must balance recovering quickly from a disaster with recovering safely.

Telework: Good policy, better practice
By Alan Joch
The more managers can test the continuity-of-operations plans in nonemergency situations, the better the organization will handle the real emergencies.

NEWS

GSA leadership shuffle dominates water-cooler talk
It seems likely that the General Services Administration will soon have a new leader.

COMMENT

Welles: The power of being positive
By Judy Welles
A new book,‘Focus on the Good Stuff,’ suggests we need to look at what goes right.

Editorial: Defending CIO bloggers
By Christopher J. Dorobek
The role of the CIO is to stay ahead of the train and guide the track.

MANAGEMENT

State's new CIO defines her role
By Ben Bain
Susan Swart says she will be successful if she can help agency diplomats fulfill their mission.

State Department will get SMART
By Ben Bain
State Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolset system will combine diplomatic text cables, e-mail, and memos in a single messaging system for classified and unclassified networks.

TECHNOLOGY

A new life for talk-to-text?
By John Moore
Efforts of speech-recognition developers could pay off as a smart application for smart phones.

BBN field tests portable translator
By John Moore
BBN Technologies has developed a translation device that enables a two-way dialogue between speakers of different languages.

PROCUREMENT

OFPP offers new guidelines to improve interagency contracting
By Matthew Weigelt
Some say OFPP’s new policy guidance might be too little, too late to offer effective oversight.

OFPP's two new policy requirements
By Matthew Weigelt
Two requirements become effective Oct. 1 and Nov. 3.

POLICY

Security pieces come together
By Mary Mosquera
Deadlines for several federal cybersecurity initiatives are coming due this summer.

Meagher: Information security has few friends at the top
By Mary Mosquera
Security requires having an agency’s senior executive team say it will happen, Interior's deputy CIO says.

FLIPSIDE

Pointers: Recommended reading
By FCW staff
Good reads to share: DOD joins the blogosophere, Learning the Web, Words to live by and Beware of Facebook apps.

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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.

Editorial:

Youthful thinking
The next administration has a unique opportunity to change the way government does business and is managed.

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