Government Executive Vol. 38 No.6

FEATURES

• Tangled Lines of Business
  The administration's plan to consolidate technology is tied up in its own contradictions.
  By David Perera
• Dodging Disaster
  Worried about your agency's ability to handle massive disruption during a crisis? Take a lesson from the Minerals Management Service.
  By Katherine McIntire Peters
• Fake Busters
  Federal agencies, local police and industry are teaming up to stop the sale of counterfeit goods.
  By Kimberly Palmer
• Fear Factor
  The Energy Department has to figure out how to reassure Americans before it rolls 77,000 tons of nuclear waste across the country.
  By Beth Dickey

NEWS+ANALYSIS

• Contracting 101
  A class dispenses advice about life for people hoping to sell to the government. By Kimberly Palmer
• Maverick Moves On
  Pentagon whistleblower Ernie Fitzgerald hangs up his spurs after a career of fighting government waste. By Jason Vest
• Exporting E-Junk
  Discarded government computers land in countries looking for high-tech hand-me-downs. By Beth Dickey

• Leadership Profile

  Pat the Builder
  Patrick F. Kennedy aims to manage the cantankerous intelligence community. By Shane Harris

ADVICE+DISSENT

• Managing Technology

  Rules of the Road
  The IRS wants to modernize how it works along with the tools it uses. By David Perera

• Management Matters

  As the Wall Crumbles
  Intelligence and law enforcement agencies topple the information barrier. By Brian Friel

IN EVERY ISSUE

• Editor's Notebook
  We seek to nurture the community of senior federal officials in print, in person and online.
• Letters
• The Buzz
  Safeguarding grizzly bears, buying American, Dirk Kempthorne on the hot seat and revisiting the McCarthy hearings.
• Outlook
  Forget a larger federal workforce-agencies can barely hire the employees they need to oversee contractors. By Tom Shoop

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