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Contents
EMERGING TECH
TRENDING
3 SECURITY
Why DHS is changing the way agencies connect to the internet
FCW CALENDAR
Where you need to be next
8 OVERSIGHT
Security clearance process is deemed high-risk. Plus, do ethics still matter in
the federal workforce?
9 PEOPLE
Digital fellowship program is back in 2018, House demands documents on Kaspersky purge, andTrump nally picks a U.S. CIO
DEPARTMENTS
12 COMMENTARY
Kicking the addiction to custom code
BY TONY SCOTT
Consumer Product Safety Commission for cyber?
BY TREVOR H. RUDOLPH
26 FCW PERSPECTIVES
A smarter approach to cloud
30 FCW PERSPECTIVES
The obstacles to shared services
34 POINT/COUNTERPOINT
A modest proposal to improve government IT BY ALAN P. BALUTIS AND DON UPSON
40 WT INSIDER
Surviving the next government shutdown BY NICK WAKEMAN
41 FCW INDEX
42 BACK STORY
The 2018 Federal 100
14 Will blockchain for government happen in 2018?
Agencies’ use of the technology lags behind the hype, but experts predict that more experiments will get underway in the coming year
BY DEREK B. JOHNSON
PLUS: A roundtable discussion by blockchain’s early adopters
CENSUS
22 Can Census get it together?
After a year of uncertainty and slipped deadlines, 2018 could make or break the Census Bureau’s constitutionally mandated population count
BY CHASE GUNTER
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