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FEATURES

Encryption roulette
By Mary Mosquera
NIH’s CIO says the agency doesn’t have answers yet to all the challenges of safeguarding data on mobile computing devices.

Smart phones, smart leadership?
By Florence Olsen
Management becomes a 24/7 job when executives,managers and supervisors get BlackBerrys.

Clipping the wings of indulgent travelers
By Mary Mosquera
VA and other agencies turn to new e-travel systems to trim excessive costs.

Mac laptops present encryption challenge
By Mary Mosquera
Information technology officials must take different approach with Macs.

NEWS

Buzz of the Week: Competition among industry Goliaths
Hewlett-Packard, one of the biggest sellers of information technology products, announced it will purchase EDS, a big integrator.

COMMENT

Editorial: Schedule panel's omission
By Christopher J. Dorobek
Schedule advisory panel should GSA Federal Acquisition Service commissioner and OFPP representative.

Grkavac: Focus on Doan's record
By Olga Grkavac
Lurita Doan was a controversial figure, and yet she managed to steer GSA in the right direction.

Waldron: Time for a schedule focus
By Roger D. Waldron
The schedule contracts are the government’s most successful procurement vehicle. Invest in them.

Balutis: Finding a new administrator
By Alan Balutis
The post of GSA administrator is a ‘prune’ job — a plum job that needs an experienced hand.

MANAGEMENT

NASA CIO doubles as teacher, coach
By Wade-Hahn Chan
Jonathan Pettus seeks to bring NASA’s centers together with a single focus.

Career execs lead during administrative transitions
By Michael Hardy
A change of administrations poses familiar challenges and opportunities for career federal service leaders.

CXO Lessons Learned: A new workforce paradigm
By Richard W. Walker
The seamless mixing of feds and contractors complicates workforce management.

PROCUREMENT

Schedules panel examines 'the clause'
By Michael Hardy
The controversial price reduction clause is at the center of debate about competition in contracting.

Battling more than demographics
By Florence Olsen
Job hopping, premature promotions could be more of a threat to the acquisition workforce.

POLICY

Agencies seek data exchange standards
By Mary Mosquera
Working group collaborates and shares documents in a wiki as they develop standards for formulating federal agency budgets.

Connecting the dots among security initiatives
By Michael Hardy
TIC, Networx and IPv6 programs intersect to provide security and the future’s technology.

FLIPSIDE

FlipSide: BLM: In search of history
By John Stein Monroe
A team of Bureau of Land Management employees has digitized about 4.2 million records so far with a goal of posting another 200,000 this year.

Op-ed:

McDonough: How to make the jump to industry
Some tips on how to find a satisfying and financially rewarding job in the private sector.

Acquisition:

Ruling clouds future for buyers
Experts debate the potential impact of a GAO decision on small-business contracting.

Management:

Recruiters make IT connection
DOD and other agencies showcase online chops to attract tech-savvy young people to their ranks.

Should Obama appoint a governmentwide CTO or CIO?

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