CREATOR OF CSI: CRIME SCENE INVESTIGATION TO KEYNOTE FOSE AND GOVSEC/U.S. LAW 2010 Anthony Zuiker to Discuss How Online Collaboration Improves Creativity and Productivity FALLS CHURCH, Va. – October 26, 2009 – 1105 Government Information Group, the leading provider of integrated information and media for the government information technology (IT) market, today announced that AnthonyRead… Read more »
From The Acquisition Corner Recent reporting by Federal Computer Week (FCW) highlights an issue that is not being addressed by acquisition reform initiatives; reforming the contract protest process. Writing in the Editor’s Notebook blog at Washington Technology, Nick Wakeman discusses the protest by Unisys and General Dynamics of TSA’s contract award to Computer Sciences CorpRead… Read more »
My conclusion (and this isn’t a legal opinion so don’t take it as such) is that the Courts may not view social media sites as a public forum. They may even go so far as to say it is government speech. I will say that the following from the Washington State Attorney General’s facebook pageRead… Read more »
Everyone (or almost everyone) is busy participating in some form of Social Media these days. How many of us have Facebook, Titter, MySpace accounts and have sent (or received) friend requests from coworkers? Probably plenty! I understand that lawyers now warn against bosses who “friend” subordinates, as it is known to intensify workplace grievances asRead… Read more »
What’s a final if not a draft by any other name? When is a final “final”? Is a final ever final if it’s revised? What constitutes a revision? The answer to this and all other existentialist questions regarding document revisions can be summed up as follows: A final is just the latest draft that mayRead… Read more »
In August, the Commission on Wartime Contracting gave the Defense Contract Management Agency and the Defense Contract Audit Agency sixty days to try to “harmonize their own approaches” to contract management in Iraq and Afghanistan. Since then a “divergence in contractor-employee counts” has come to light, along with some confusion about who is overseeing theRead… Read more »
It’s been quite a rollercoaster ride for the Thrift Savings Plan, thanks to Wall Street’s ups and downs of the past month. As for what this means for the near term, we asked Tom Trabucco, TSP Director of External Affairs. “Markets are in a state of flux,” he told Federal News Radio’s Amy Morris onRead… Read more »
If you’re a regular reader of The New York Times, you may be a bit concerned about flying. More specifically, about being able to get on an airplane once the new federal initiative called Secure Flight kicks in. According to Joe Sharkey, blogging in The Times, Secure Flight “requires that the name on the IDRead… Read more »