Digital Government
Recoding Government: Finding the Tech Change Agents Who Drive Federal Innovation
These innovators know that to stay relevant, they need to continue developing their skills and be mindful of the changing times and fast-evolving technology.
Digital Government
How Your Office Chair Improves Creativity
Can holding a brainstorm sitting on office swings around a conference table spur better ideas?
Digital Government
Pentagon Taps Google’s Eric Schmidt for New Innovation Brain Trust
The new advisory board aims to help DOD be more like Silicon Valley
Digital Government
Lawmaker: America ‘Can Do Better,’ Contribute More to Global Tech
A recent report ranked the U.S. 10th out of 56 nations because of factors including relatively lower R&D funding.
Digital Government
David Bowie Wasn’t Just an Incredible Artist, but a Tech Visionary Too
Ziggy Stardust owned an Internet startup worth hundreds of millions of dollars in the dotcom-boom days.
Digital Government
New Playbook Examines Dos and Don’ts for Federal Innovation
Agencies should navigate the innovation process like an hourglass: start big with plenty of people pitching various ideas.
Digital Government
The 15 Most Innovative Agencies in Government
Federal employees have once again rated NASA as the agency where innovation and creativity are most rewarded
Emerging Tech
These 9 Innovations Changed the Future and They All Came From One Place
The MIT Media Lab helped originate some of the indispensable tech we use today.
Digital Government
4 Ways To Foster Innovation in the Office, According to Google
Google has become a champion of evidence-based management and is helping other organizations do the same.
Emerging Tech
VA Rolls Out 'Innovators Networks' at 8 Sites
The new program aims to get employees to test out new ideas.
Emerging Tech
What Technology Should Be Un-Invented?
We asked 101 technology leaders what innovation they wish could go back in the box.
Digital Government
Q&A: Managing the Pentagon's 'Wicked' Problems
Department of Navy's Maura Sullivan, chief of innovation and strategy, chatted with Nextgov about innovation and the challenge of “wicked” problems.
Digital Government
Want DOD To Be More Innovative? Sorry, Government Is Inefficient on Purpose
“You can't have the entire U.S. government or the federal acquisition regulations change so we can do innovation,” says the head of a small arm of the Pentagon designed to facilitate rapid research and development of tools
Digital Government
The Rise of Agency Innovation Labs
In the 2016 budget, the Obama administration proposed more funding to help launch idea labs.
Ideas
The ‘Culture of No’ and 3 Other Government IT Challenges
Among the factors keeping government behind the tech curve are an aversion to change and the lack of technocratic leadership.
Digital Government
5 Tech Projects from HHS' Accelerator Demo Day
One is a mobile app that would help FDA researchers inspect fresh meat for bacteria at local grocery stores.
Emerging Tech
'Unhinging' a Government Culture Resistant to Change
Risk taking and failure should be an option in government, top federal technologists say.
Ideas
The Small Government Office That's Funding the Next Big Idea
How to pursue novel products with the knowledge of an available safety net.
Digital Government
How Can Agencies Balance IT Innovation and Cost Savings?
The tech explosion and declining federal budgets have put the government in a tough spot.
Digital Government