News And Analysis

In a Bind

An Obama executive order limits contractors’ hiring options.

Features

Behind the Curtain

What transparency really means.

Features

Building the Recovery

The pressure is on federal agencies to figure out how to manage billions of dollars in economic stimulus funds for construction projects.

Features

Spying Talent

Human capital chief Ronald Sanders says the intelligence community is only as good as its people, so agencies have upped the ante.

Perspectives

New Math

The president is on a quest to reconcile his ambitions with available dollars.

Defense

ADVICE+DISSENT:Intelligence File Reading the Signs

Crises occur when we have the wrong kinds of information.

Management Matters - Advice And Dissent

All Ears

Good managers don’t just listen, they respond and act.

Managing Technology

Unlocking Ideas

Informed agencies use social media to brainstorm without exposing secrets.

Editor's Notebook

Two Governments

Transparency and the alternate universe of federal spending.

News

Crisis 2.0

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Overworked

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Issa Says No to Pay Caps

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News

Investigator Invasion

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Pitchers Report

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News

From Nextgov.com: DHS awards contract for surveillance systems along U.S.-Canada border

Boeing will deploy networks in Buffalo and Detroit and conduct a yearlong test to determine enhancements the department should add.

Oversight

Acquisition community faces strict stimulus reporting rules

Requirements increase the public disclosure responsibilities of procurement officials and contractors.

Oversight

TARP oversight agencies ask Treasury, Fed for answers

Watchdogs want more authority to monitor and examine the finances of the bailout effort.

Defense

Senator says Defense chief will reveal budget cuts ahead of Obama

Gates canceled plans to attend the NATO 60th anniversary summit in France so he could stay in Washington to wrap up work on the fiscal 2010 budget.

Defense

GAO: Staggering cost overruns dwarf modest improvements in Defense acquisition

A shortage of government engineers and contract managers contributes to problems, says report.