Ideas

Navy considers the power of Google

People

DARPA names winner in shredder challenge

DARPA announces a winner for its shredded-document challenge, designed to find out more about handling and exploiting sensitive documents.

People

Interior, GSA ask industry about incentives

Officials are asking industry serious questions about incentives that might entice the best companies and their best work.

Digital Government

Prepared for Mobile Work?

People

Workforce expert: Third year of pay freeze likely to happen

The defeat of the latest effort to extend the pay freeze doesn't mean feds are safe from further attempts.

Digital Government

Federal Coach: Using data to make better decisions in your agency

Government agencies collect data that can be valuable to managers who oversee teams trying to achieve their agencies’ goals and missions. And government leaders can use this data to pinpoint problems, highlight successes and figure out better or more efficient ways to run programs.

Digital Government

VA's Real-Time Location System: A way to improve patient safety, or Big Brother?

The department and its unions differ on technology that can track equipment and potentially snoop on workers.

Digital Government

How Skilled is Your Agency's Cyber Workforce?

Modernization

Employment announcement crashes BLS website

Shortly after the Bureau of Labor Statistics announced the latest job figures, Twitter users reported an outage at BLS website.

People

Federal agency blogs gaining fresh appeal on Tumblr platform

A handful of federal agencies have created blogs on the popular Tumblr platform, and experts say more may be following their example.