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Honoring Joseph Nye’s legacy of ethical leadership
Distinguished Harvard scholar who redefined national security and mentored generations dies at 88.
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Has DOGE missed its opportunity?
COMMENTARY | A former federal executive charts a viable long-term plan for DOGE to achieve success.
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Total experience: The missing link in government transformation
COMMENTARY | Agencies have a significant blind spot: a narrow focus on external users, with insufficient attention paid to the internal workforce experience.
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Mounting cyber defense in the face of unexpected staff reductions
Strategies for dealing with cybersecurity challenges hitting agencies right now.
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Driving efficiency while improving federal agencies’ cybersecurity postures
COMMENTARY | A lopsided labor-to-technology spending ratio is just one challenge agencies have to take on.
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Transforming federal IT: best practices for driving software innovation
Software development is accelerating.
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The president’s procurement order offers a real opportunity. Let’s not squander it
COMMENTARY | Real change in government procurement can happen, but it’s going to require learning from lessons of the past.
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Trump officials explain his plan to make government acquisition great, for once
COMMENTARY | Three senior Trump officials explain why revamping the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and the $1 trillion in government spending it governs each year, is now a top priority.
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Ending data silos: Inside the new executive order to fight waste, fraud and abuse
Federal agencies must improve data access and break down barriers to collaboration.
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Proactive responses to termination for convenience or stop-work orders
COMMENTARY | Here are a few ways contractors ought to respond.
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The need for collaborative global cyber diplomacy is growing
COMMENTARY | Strengthening global cyber collaboration is needed now more than ever.
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America's digital infrastructure belongs to you
COMMENTARY | We’ve seen unprecedented attacks on our nation’s federal digital infrastructure, from removing or restricting datasets and tools, to taking websites offline, to widespread layoffs.
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Three ways agencies can prepare before AI costs skyrocket
These three steps might save you some heartburn.
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FAR overhaul: The challenges in tackling federal procurement’s 5,000-page beast
The General Services Administration's acting leader outlines a blueprint for how the Trump administration wants to streamline regulations, a move aimed at opening the market to more competition and "best-in-class" companies.
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Buckle up: The acquisition ride is only going to get bumpier
The zone is being flooded and we’re only two months in.
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Back to the future at GSA with contracting executive order
President Trump’s executive order may be familiar for 1990s-era procurement executives.
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Future-proofing federal data: The need for secure, scalable data infrastructure
Scalability matters.
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Musk taking wrong approach to creating government efficiencies
COMMENTARY | Everyone agrees a more efficient government makes sense, but is the nascent Department of Government Efficiency actually doing so?
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Building a stronger federal workforce in an era of cost-cutting
Former Federal Chief Information Officer Suzette Kent weighs in.
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