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Is Your Agency Ready for the 21st Century IDEA Act?
The law calls on federal agencies to get started right away.
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How Government Agencies Can Build Cyber Trust in 2019
For all the damage that can come as the result of cyberattacks, the cost of severed trust is almost always the highest.
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White House’s Race to Maintain AI Dominance Misses Opportunity
The administration supported a race for AI when it could have supported a race for ethical innovation.
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Where Are the Stories About Government’s Vital Work?
Agencies need to do a better job of explaining what they do and why it matters.
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Moving to the Cloud? You Need to Monitor Application Performance.
When a smartphone app doesn't work it's annoying. But when an agency app doesn't work, there can be consequences.
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Workism Is Making Americans Miserable
For the college-educated elite, work has morphed into a religious identity—promising identity, transcendence, and community, but failing to deliver.
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How the Government Plans to Modernize its Workforce
Cloud-based tools can help woo the next generation of public sector workers.
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The Dangers of a Mandatory DNA Database
A controversy in Arizona is a portent of future public-policy fights.
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Why 2019 is the Year to Try Project Management as a Service
Better project management means better mission outcomes.
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You Don’t Need Leadership Training to Lead
An interview with retired Gen. Stanley McChrystal on the nature of leadership.
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Government’s Growing Problem: Paying Its Technical Debt
Could automation help chip away at the technical debt agencies have accrued?
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The Problem With a ‘Smart’ Border Wall
To resolve Trump’s impasse, many lawmakers have proposed boosting surveillance technology to create a virtual border wall. Is that more humane and effective?
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Why Our Government Leaders Must Take the Wheel on Self-Driving Vehicles in 2019—and How They Can Do it
Such vehicles will enable older adults, people with disabilities and people who are housebound to get around with greater ease.
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Federal Networks Under Attack: How Artificial Intelligence Will Save the Day
It's time to stop being a step behind hackers.
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3 Steps to a More Secure Federal Supply Chain
A self-assessment is the first step in understanding where potential threats may come from.
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Rethinking Data Center Optimization with a Service Mentality
These updates can make a real impact if agencies take the right steps.
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Technology Legislation Slowly Crawling Forward
These bills could benefit the federal government's operations.
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A Mission Assurance Strategy Built for 2020 (and Beyond)
Our connected reality presents massive challenges to military and commercial entities working to safeguard networks from growing threats.
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