Digital Government

Waning Leadership Scores Tied to Low Morale

Study shows employees planning to leave their jobs rated top management lower.

Acquisition

Acquisition mythbusting gets the spotlight

Work for an agency that did great things with acquisition? You might want to consider it for the Myth-busting Award.

People

CIOs on cyber workers

A new report seeks to help agency leaders understand the cybersecurity workforce.

Digital Government

This Defense Contractor Is Repeatedly Spear-Phishing 68,000 Innocent People

The exercise is meant to teach employees how to identify and report network intrusions.

Emerging Tech

Development Agency’s Chief Innovator to Step Down

Maura O’Neill championed private sector funding models for innovations in international development.

Cybersecurity

How do You Create U.S. Cyber Guidelines for Foreign Firms?

Multinational companies and critical U.S. businesses with consumer divisions could have trouble fitting into a standard security framework.

Digital Government

Hagel Takes Aim at Risky and Expensive Pentagon Programs

In his first major policy speech, the Defense secretary also blasted the bloated bureaucracy.

Digital Government

Feds could take a Twitter lesson from Capitol Hill

Some members of Congress excel in their use of social media, research service finds.

Digital Government

Food and Drug Agency Triples Down on Data Mining

The FDA has begun solicitations for three services to analyze drug data in the past month.

Digital Government

Hagel weighs major reforms, Pentagon priorities

Newly-appointed Secretary of Defense vows to confront the major factors responsible for the department's spending growth.

People

Linda Cureton's next move

The departing NASA CIO launches herself into the final frontier with a new private-sector enterprise.

People

Is federal leadership on the decline?

NASA tops the list in the 2012 Best Places to Work analysis, but governmentwide scores drop for the first time.

Digital Government

There is no mobile government without a mobile citizen

For all of the gains agencies are making with employee mobility, it is critical for agencies to keep in mind the use of mobile devices outside of the government too, writes Adobe's John Landwehr.

Emerging Tech

U.S. Embassy in Cairo Briefly Shuts Down Twitter Profile After Morsi Spat

Egyptian president chided the embassy for tweeting the link to a Daily Show segment that criticized him.

Digital Government

Why Spend a Billion Dollars to Map the Human Brain?

Barack Obama announced an initiative yesterday that involves significant government investment in neuroscience. So begins the international race to understand the brain.

Digital Government

Report Paints Bleak Picture of Federal Employment In Wake of Sequester

Private sector appears to be doing better, based on a Gallup analysis.

Emerging Tech

Merge the Dakotas and Ban Butterscotch Candies?

More fun with We the People petitions, courtesy of Comedy Central's Daniel Tosh.

Digital Government

Congress questions SBA spending

House Small Business chairman voices concern that "core functions" could suffer while money is spent on unnecessary travel and activities.