Principal Director to DOD's Deputy CIO

You may spend your days cranking out IT policies and tweaking systems designs, but success lies in remembering that you have only one purpose: public service.

Given the high demand for skilled IT security employees, agencies have a farm system in place to produce talented workers who are ready to serve.

Eight value areas can help agencies determine what to look for in integrator relationships.

Need to set a secure plan for a project that's heavy on software development? For pointers, look to DOD's major satellite networks program.

NASA finds that the processes it uses for rocket science work for replacing its WAN — on time and under budget.

To resolve improper payments, try the approach HHS takes to nab low-hanging fruit first.

Keep your ID program moving ahead.

Agencies are on high alert to keep data in the right hands — even when it's available to mobile end users.

Vista's almost here, but are you ready? Should you be?

That's the next part of the project management life cycle where OMB needs to create best practices.

Technology helps federal investigators revisit unsolved civil-rights-era cases and finally close some books on the past.

Converting to a shared-services center for financial management? Don't get lost in a desert of missed consolidation opportunities, poor investment decisions and shortsighted migration strategies.

Simulated disaster creates an "extreme lab" that tests people and machines and offers lessons for agencies across government.

FEMA tests new systems to improve communications and track emergency supplies.