Government Executive : Vol. 39 No. 21 (12/1/07)

FEATURES

• Running the Light
  The Bush administration has used its traffic-light system to rate agency management since 2001. Now we evaluate the president's progress.
  By Brittany Ballenstedt, Robert Brodsky, Gautham Nagesh, Elizabeth Newell and Alyssa Rosenberg
• Managing Technology 2008
  Get ready for tougher privacy rules, an Internet overhaul, more procurement oversight, and a focus on health data and tighter security.
  By Jill R. Aitoro
• Technology Rush
  Just because it blows you away on screen doesn't mean it will help attract, hire and train the employees your agency needs.
  By Brittany Ballenstedt and Alyssa Rosenberg

NEWS+ANALYSIS

• After Blackwater
  There are few options if the besieged security contractor is phased out of Iraq. By Robert Brodsky
• The Letter of the Law
  DHS might have funded shared services illegally by pooling earmarked funds. By Elizabeth Newell
• In Love and War
  Divorce rates actually decline with deployments, study shows. By Greg Grant
• Recovery Architect
  A Texas banker takes on the aftermath of the country's greatest national disasters. By Katherine McIntire Peters
• Vetting Veterans
  Advocacy groups fear that disability changes could skew compensation for service-related injuries. By Bob Brewin

ADVICE+DISSENT

• Managing Technology

  Keeping It Real
  More and more agencies have hopped on the blogging bandwagon. From concept to execution, here's how they did it. By Jill R. Aitoro

• Intelligence File

  Spy Management 2.0
  Rather than control private agents, why not act like them? By Shane Harris

• Political World

  Dollars and Census
  The national head count is about more than people-it's also about federal money and power. By Charles Mahtesian

IN EVERY ISSUE

• Editor's Notebook
  We give our own grades to President Bush's management record.

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