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FEATURE
How secure is your COOP?Contingency planners, such as New York’s William Pelgrin, must balance recovering quickly from a disaster with recovering safely.
THE WEEK Buzz of the Week: GSA leadership shuffle dominates water-cooler talkTime to update the Privacy Act?Other Policy News
FOIA ruling raises questionsAn IT strategy for the transitionGAO: Senior privacy officials need authority Security clearance solution deferred
Accord might avert furloughs
Other Management News
Agencies to launch alternate-pay project
Collaboration will expand CIOs’ roles
Are schedule prices a good deal?
Other Acquisition News
GSA plans schedules oversight officeOfficials ask for more insightTechnology NewsCIA collaborates onlineIPv6 deadline challenges DHSFrom the pages of GCN
DISA’s Croom, agency leaders recognizedFCW FORUMEditorial: Defending CIO bloggers
Welles: The power of being positive
MANAGEMENT
State’s new CIO defines her role
Susan Swart says she will be successful if she can help agency diplomats fulfill their mission
ACQUISITION
OFPP offers new guidelines to improve interagency contactingSome say OFPP’s new policy guidance might be too little, too late to offer effective oversight
TECHNOLOGY
A new life for talk-to-text?
Efforts of speech-recognition developers could pay off as a smart application for smart phones
POLICY
Security pieces come togetherDeadlines for several federal cybersecurity initiatives are coming due this summer
POINTERS: RECOMMENDED READING
FCW points you in the direction of interesting blogs, Web sites and products dealing with all things information technology.
- DOD joins the blogosophere
- Learning the Web
- Words to live by
- Beware Facebook apps
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