Digital Government
Skills Gaps Within OPM’s Own Workforce Could Make It Less Able to Help Others
The government’s human resources agency has outlined an ambitious agenda to make sure agencies are fully staffed, with the people who have the skills necessary for their jobs.
Policy
Panel Seeks Ways to Accelerate Pentagon Budgeting—and Keep Up with China
Recommendations are expected soon on adapting a decades-old way of doing things for the modern era.
Policy
New Federal Service Delivery Model Favors People and Problems Over Bureaucracy
The White House envisions applications for services like food assistance, Medicaid and other benefits taking 20 minutes, with enrollment coming after just 24 hours.
Cybersecurity
Ransomware Payments Decreased in 2022 as Criminals Used Other Extortion Tactics
A report from Recorded Future found that, even as ransomware continues to pose a global challenge for individuals and organizations, threat actors are increasingly using other methods to steal sensitive data and demand payments from victims.
Cybersecurity
EPA Releases Water Systems Cyber Requirement in Tandem with National Strategy
The Environmental Protection Agency unveiled new cybersecurity guidelines to help states evaluate their water sanitation systems’ defenses.
Policy
Report: 39% Federal Leaders Rate Accessibility as a Top Priority
Budget constraints and old technology add challenges to fully realizing digital accessibility.
Cybersecurity
Tech trade group leery of new regulations proposed in Biden's cyber strategy
The new national cybersecurity strategy calls for software providers to be held accountable for vulnerabilities in their products – a fundamental shift in approach that sparked concerns among some technology associations and firms.
Digital Government
New federal service delivery model focuses on people and problems, not bureaucratic silos
The White House envisions applications for services like food assistance, Medicaid and other benefits taking 20 minutes, with enrollment coming after just 24 hours.
Emerging Tech
Energy Looks for Additional Ways to Prepare the Future Quantum Workforce
The Department of Energy has asked higher education to weigh in on how the agency can help prepare students to work in quantum information science.
Ideas
Dissenting from our toxic political culture
Steve Kelman says it's important in this highly partisan era to find points of disagreement with one's own party.
Emerging Tech
DARPA To Launch High-Speed, No-Runway Aircraft Program
Will it be a helicopter? A seaplane? Or a whole new thing?
Acquisition
Accenture prevails in long fight for Healthcare.gov work
After several rounds of protests, the company will continue to manage the health insurance exchanges that are the Affordable Care Act's centerpiece .
Digital Government
Watchdog: Secret Service, ICE failed to follow federal statutes in using cell phone tracking devices
Two federal agencies failed to consistently apply court statutes and Department of Homeland Security policies for the use of cell site simulators in law enforcement cases, in part because of insufficient policy guidance, a new report claims.
Cybersecurity
National Cyber Strategy Seeks to Shift Burden from Consumers to Tech Firms
The strategy calls for Congress to pass legislation that would “shift liability onto those entities that fail to take reasonable precautions to secure their software.”
Cybersecurity
National cyber strategy faces major implementation challenges, experts say
A depleted workforce, lack of funding and challenges with information sharing across the public and private sectors may severely hamper the federal government’s implementation of a new sweeping cybersecurity strategy, experts told FCW.
Digital Government
16 Agencies Create One Confidential Data Process to Rule Them All
In three years, creators of the Standard Application Process condensed 16 different agencies’ processes into one central portal for confidential data requests.
Cybersecurity
Report Spotlights Medical Infrastructure, Utilities as Primary Cyber Targets
A report from TransUnion documented the industries that most suffered from cyberattacks in the end of 2022, and recommended mitigation measures.
Modernization
NTIA Wants Public Insight on How to Disperse Billions in Internet for All Funding
The agency is looking for comments on how it should structure two grant programs that will provide almost $2.7 billion in funding for digital equity initiatives.
Digital Government
White House sends anti-fraud wishlist to Congress as stakeholders await identity executive order
Asked when the long-anticipated executive order would be coming out, senior advisor to the President Gene Sperling told reporters to “stay tuned” as the measure winds through legal approvals.
Artificial Intelligence