Management

  • The administration plans on cutting 100 data centers this year and 700 more by 2015. Bob Otto of Agilex Technologies says this is an attainable goal and offers tips for agencies in the process.

    April 18, 2011
  • Your agency could save a lot of money with improvements in the purchase card program. Former OFPP Administrator Steve Kelman will tell you how.

    April 18, 2011
  • There\'s a lesson in the budget for the forthcoming battle over lifting the debt ceiling.

    April 18, 2011
  • The Federal Broadband Minute, provided by Hughes. If your agency\'s communications network was tailored to your needs, what would it look like? Would your small and medium-sized field offices connect to the cloud and run applications with optimal bandwidth efficiency? Would your ideal network be cost effective, and able to leverage the benefits of GSA programs? Would it provide path-diverse communications that support COOP for the same price as your primary network service? And with your network, would you have confidence in secure connectivity, especially for teleworkers? Say yes to all these questions and meet the government field office of the future today from Hughes. With decades of experience and a comprehensive suite of solutions and partners, Hughes is able to deliver agencies a powerful, national managed broadband service providing voice, video, and data where, when, and how you need it.

    April 18, 2011
  • As a public-private partnership, the NextGen Equipage Fund, LLC will bring substantial private-sector capital to overcome the investment barriers that have prevented many air carriers and other operators from investing in the NextGen technologies for their aircraft. ITT\'s John Kefaliotis explains.

    April 18, 2011
  • Designs that may make airplanes greener and quieter for future generations are one step closer to reality. NASA\'s Richard Wahls explains.

    April 18, 2011
  • The costs of weapons and communications systems are on the rise.

    April 18, 2011
  • A UMBC research park emerges as front line of defense in Cyberwars.

    April 18, 2011
  • Working with government agencies means working in a political environment. The response, former Coast Guard Admiral and Commandant Thad Allen said, was \"as much as a political event as an operational event.\"

    April 18, 2011
  • The Defense Information Systems Agency celebrated the ceremonial opening of its new 95-acre headquarters campus on Friday. Less than half of the 4,600 employees already work at its new headquarters at Fort Meade, Md. The agency expects the rest of its staff to move there from several northern Virginia locations by late August.

    April 18, 2011
  • The Office of Management and Budget is helping you make sure your agency\'s gives money only to the right people.

    April 15, 2011
  • Wendell Shingler of the Adfero Group discusses improving the FPS\'s ability to protect 9,000 federal buildings.

    April 15, 2011
  • President Obama\'s deficit reduction plan speech on Wednesday did not address how these cuts would affect federal pay and benefits, but one administration official told Federal News Radio that changes to federal retirement benefits were still possible.

    April 15, 2011
  • The House passed a fiscal year 2012 bill today that freezes federal pay for three years and cuts the federal workforce by 10 percent through attrition.

    April 15, 2011