Digital Government

John Mark Hall: Keeping security front and center

Hall worked closely with the Integrated Security Program team and its partners, which are developing security measures for the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency's new campus at Fort Belvoir, Va.

Digital Government

Cate Berard: A guru for the greening of IT

Berard took a leadership role in the Obama administration's efforts to introduce sustainable practices for buying, managing and disposing of IT products.

Digital Government

Paul Swider: Pioneer of Tech@State

Swider engineered the creation of Tech@State, which brings together technology leaders and innovators to support the United States' diplomacy and development agenda.

Digital Government

Zacharie T. Hall: Getting firsthand feedback...from Kandahar Province

Hall volunteered to go to a combat outpost in Afghanistan so he could get a better understanding of what soldiers needed.

Digital Government

The Real Cost of War

Digital Government

HHS debuts smoking cessation mobile texting apps

The National Cancer Institute is offering customizable text message programs to teens and adults who want to quit smoking.

Digital Government

Federal Coach: Robert Reich on bringing tenacity to public leadership

Robert Reich is a professor at the Goldman School of Public Policy at the University of California at Berkeley and has served in three national administrations, most recently as secretary of labor under President Bill Clinton. Now, he shares his thoughts on public leadership.

Digital Government

FBI to launch nationwide facial recognition service

Four states will begin using the service in January; immigrant rights groups worry Homeland Security will abuse the biometric database.

Digital Government

Federal Coach: Looking to grow as a leader? Then look to the past

No time has been more turbulent for leaders than the present. At least that’s what we like to think.

Digital Government

Effort to require online governmentwide spending reports advances on the Hill

The Digital Accountability and Transparency Act would apply stimulus fund reporting practices to all federal programs.