Ideas
IT excellence: lessons from the VA, the Air Force and abroad
COMMENTARY | Americans want smarter government. Success stories at the VA and the Air Force show it’s possible to transform digital services with the right leadership.
AI.gov: A missed opportunity for true innovation and fiscal responsibility
COMMENTARY | The internal chatbot initiative is yet another example of taxpayer dollars being squandered
Tech Trends Transforming the Public Sector
COMMENTARY | Emerging technologies like generative AI are already transforming public sector services.
SecDef’s recipe for procurement: A dash of DOGE with a pinch of Obama
COMMENTARY | The Defense Department’s recent contracting directives are sweeping, but will they be successful?
This CISA Project should serve as the roadmap to managing cyber risk and efficiency in a cloud era
COMMENTARY | Advanced threats, including ransomware, supply chain breaches and nation-state attacks, exploit the fact that the current approach to cloud security needs improvement.
Helping DOGE break down data silos
COMMENTARY | By adopting modern data architectures like enterprise data lakes, agencies can dismantle these silos.
Legacy government systems enter the AI era
COMMENTARY | How Federal agencies can transform decades-old code while strengthening security and compliance.
GSA has been given more of the government’s contracting authority
COMMENTARY | Folding SEWP and CIOSP into GSA may unbalance the system.
Five strategies for government software modernization
COMMENTARY | There's more than one way to modernize.
Empowering US federal agencies through strategic data sharing: A blueprint for success
COMMENTARY | A robust multi-modal data-sharing framework can drive mission success.
Honoring Joseph Nye’s legacy of ethical leadership
Distinguished Harvard scholar who redefined national security and mentored generations dies at 88.
Has DOGE missed its opportunity?
COMMENTARY | A former federal executive charts a viable long-term plan for DOGE to achieve success.
Featured eBooks
Total experience: The missing link in government transformation
COMMENTARY | Agencies have a significant blind spot: a narrow focus on external users, with insufficient attention paid to the internal workforce experience.
Mounting cyber defense in the face of unexpected staff reductions
Strategies for dealing with cybersecurity challenges hitting agencies right now.
Driving efficiency while improving federal agencies’ cybersecurity postures
COMMENTARY | A lopsided labor-to-technology spending ratio is just one challenge agencies have to take on.
Transforming federal IT: best practices for driving software innovation
Software development is accelerating.
The president’s procurement order offers a real opportunity. Let’s not squander it
COMMENTARY | Real change in government procurement can happen, but it’s going to require learning from lessons of the past.
Exclusive
Trump officials explain his plan to make government acquisition great, for once
COMMENTARY | Three senior Trump officials explain why revamping the Federal Acquisition Regulation, and the $1 trillion in government spending it governs each year, is now a top priority.
Ending data silos: Inside the new executive order to fight waste, fraud and abuse
Federal agencies must improve data access and break down barriers to collaboration.
Proactive responses to termination for convenience or stop-work orders
COMMENTARY | Here are a few ways contractors ought to respond.
