GovernmentExecutive.com

Okay, confession time. I was a high school policy debater. I spent the better part of four years arguing at very high speed over absurdly convoluted scenarios, including what it would be like if we had weapons in space. So it's simultaneously kind of cool and kind of creepy to read Bob Brewin's piece on the debate over satellite-disabling weapons. This stuff was never supposed to become TRUE!

Agencies routinely say it needs information technology specialists, and with initiatives to follow stimulus spending and to make government more transparent, the need for technologists will only increase. Earl Devaney, Obama's stimulus watchdog, lamented on Thursday while testifying on the Hill about the IT challenges he faces.