TSP's G Fund Helps Delay Debt Ceiling
CBP Could Escape Furloughs
Feds Flock to TSP's L Funds
EIG 2013 as Told by Your Tweets
Boldly Go Where No Fed's Gone Before
The Big Squeeze: Defense Under Sequester
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Katherine McIntire Peters
Executive Editor
Katherine Peters leads editorial strategy and operations for Nextgov. She previously was a senior correspondent for Government Executive magazine, where she covered defense, homeland security and energy. Prior to joining Government Executive in 1995, she covered U.S. military operations and training for Army Times. She also worked as a writer and technical editor at both IDC Washington and EDS. She holds a B.A. in English from Elizabethtown College and an M.A. in Journalism from American University.
Army to slash thousands of civilian jobs in 2012
December 8, 2011 Army officials said Thursday they will cut 8,700 civilian positions next year at 70 locations across 37 states. The jobs will be eliminated by Sept. 30, 2012, to cope with anticipated budget cuts, according to a Pentagon announcement. Ninety percent of the cuts will come from the Installation Management Command, ...
How Skilled is Your Agency's Cyber Workforce?
December 2, 2011
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Our colleagues over at the Government Business Council, Government Executive Media Group's research arm, want to know what you think. In the age of Anonymous and Wikileaks, agencies aim to be more cyber-ready than ever before at a time when the demand for cyber professionals may be greater than the ...
OMB to Release FedRAMP Cloud Security Guidance
November 30, 2011
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White House budget director Jacob Lew reportedly has signed off on critical cloud security guidance, known as FedRAMP, which may be released as early as next week, according to a Federal News Radio report. The Office of Management and Budget and the General Services Administration have been working on FedRAMP ...
ICE Nets 150 Fraudulent Websites on Cyber Monday
November 28, 2011
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What better way for the feds to kick off the online holiday shopping season than with the seizure of websites selling counterfeit goods. A joint operation involving Immigration and Customs Enforcement, Homeland Security Investigations, the National Intellectual property Rights Coordination Center, the Justice Department and the FBI resulted in the ...
Nine Steps for a Successful IT Investment
November 21, 2011
FROM NEXTGOV
An adequate budget, a stable workforce, and executive-level support -- what more could the manager of a major technology program want? Six more things, according to an analysis by auditors at the Government Accountability Office. To better understand why so many IT projects incur cost overruns and fall behind schedule ...
Symantec Sells Huawei Stake and Unloads a Headache With Feds
November 15, 2011
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After the markets closed yesterday, U.S. security giant Symantec announced an agreement to sell its 49 percent share in Huawei Symantec Technologies Co. to its Chinese partner Huawei Technologies Co., which will have full ownership of the joint venture established by the two companies in 2008 in Hong Kong. The ...
Topic A: Internet Governance
November 14, 2011
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When Vint Cerf speaks, smart people listen, which is why Google invited the former DARPA program manager and father of the Internet (and now the company's VP and Chief Internet Evangelist) to address the smart set assembled at Atmosphere 2011, Google's two-day cloud computing event in Mountain View, Calif. Jolie ...
Reading Fingerprints Through Gloves and Other Cool IT
November 9, 2011
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In the Cool Stuff Department, analysts at research firm Gartner have flagged a handful of companies developing innovative identity management technologies feds might want to check out as they wrestle with network security issues across government. "These up-and-coming technology providers offer [identity and access management] products and services based on ...
Video: GSA Exec's Take on Cloud's Silver Lining
November 1, 2011
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Our colleagues at the Government Business Council recently interviewed David McClure, Associate Administrator at GSA, on the promises of cloud computing. McClure acknowledges that closing data centers will inevitably lead to some employees losing their jobs, but says the transition also offers opportunities for retraining workers. While he urged caution ...
Editor's note: Our new logo
October 2, 2011
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We've given Nextgov.com, along with our newsletters, a new look today with a new logo. The change is in connection with the redesign of the October edition of Government Executive magazine, the flagship publication of Government Executive Media Group, which includes Nextgov. To complete the redesign, we hired Pentagram, a ...
