Digital Government
How to Persuade Your Company’s Product Team to Build Something
Communicating with engineers, designers and data scientists doesn't have to be difficult.
Digital Government
USDA Wants One Hub to Connect Agency Leaders to Every Employee
The agency wants to pull disparate intranets together and allow two-way communications with employees.
Cybersecurity
One Agency Plans to Lock Employees In a Room Until They Learn Cyber Hygiene
The National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency will be locking employees in escape rooms to test their knowledge of cybersecurity.
Digital Government
NSA Director: The Agency 'Sells Itself' to Potential Recruits
Nakasone tells industry group of 92 percent retention rate, need for diversity.
Ideas
Governments Need to Re-tool the IT Workforce (Again)
Leaders should encourage change agents, and those government workers will need to develop and maintain certain skills and capabilities.
Cybersecurity
Federal Insider Threat Programs Prevent Multiple Suicides Each Year
Experts said suicide prevention has been an unintended byproduct of insider threat programs.
Digital Government
It Just Got Cheaper for Agencies to Run Training Programs
The General Service Administration and Office of Personnel Management lowered the access fees on the $11 billion training vehicle.
Digital Government
3 Essential Skills for Setting Work-Life Boundaries
A former FBI hostage negotiator offers tips on setting boundaries at work.
Ideas
The Key to Government’s Digital Transformation is Data Literacy
Without data literacy, the prospect of quickly meeting the administration’s data and IT modernization goals is simply not feasible.
Cybersecurity
The Future Airman is a Hacker
Air Force recruiters will prize computer skills more highly, while the service will encourage airmen to experiment with their own solutions
Digital Government
Get Ready for a Massive Government Spending Spree
A combination of factors will see federal agencies trying to spend as much as 40 percent of their budgets in the final two months of the fiscal year.
Ideas
Identifying the Cyberattack Patterns and Doing the Easy Stuff
The math favors the attackers. There is little you can do about the attacker, but there is a lot you can do about you.
Digital Government
How to Be Assertive—Even When You’re Constantly Talked Over
Here are techniques for speaking up, pushing back, and getting your voice heard more often.
Modernization
How A Human Resources System Could Revolutionize the Army
Army program managers took a mandate to upgrade the service’s payment systems and turned it into a way to unearth soldiers’ hidden talents.
Digital Government
Senate Approves Spending Package with Pay Raise, Setting Up Fight With House
Trump told Rush Limbaugh on Wednesday a government shutdown would be "a great campaign issue," further complicating the prospects for a spending bill.
Ideas
Here's a Non-Binary Approach to Smarter Cybersecurity
Moving beyond an "allow or deny" choice could reduce friction between agency security pros and their end users.
Digital Government
If You Were Fired, Don’t Lie About It In a Job Interview. Do This Instead
Explaining a suspicious departure can be difficult.
Digital Government