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OMB's mixed messages on mobility are putting federal agencies at risk

COMMENTARY | Why the Office of Management and Budget needs to revise the 2022 FISMA Metrics and explicitly reinstate the mobility metrics and threat defense protections.

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Six Strategies for Transforming Citizen Service Delivery

President Biden wants to make it easier and more efficient to access critical government services. Here’s some ways to make that happen.

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Dear agency senior executive: You can make or break your next big tech initiative

You may have heard that modern principles can help you reduce risk on projects like yours, but changing the way you work isn't easy.

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Uncle Sam Isn't a Trustworthy Dude: So What is America To Do?

Americans’ trust in government is a quarter of what it was in the 1960s.

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No, Submitting Junk Data to Period Tracking Apps Won’t Protect Reproductive Privacy

Reproductive privacy is not guaranteed.

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Customer service at the National Security Agency

Steve Kelman finds a helping hand in the highly secretive spy shop.

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Achieving incident response maturity is critical for effective threat management

Agencies should take the principles outlined in CISA's playbooks and make them their own.

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Software Edits Images Via Human 'Mind Control'

The development has numerous potential applications.

Cybersecurity

Federal Government Gets Serious About Post-Quantum Encryption Protection

A Phase III PQE contractor talks about getting federal quantum protection deployed quickly. 

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Quantum Sensors—Unlike Quantum Computers—Are Already Here

And they’re improving at a rate that demands urgent attention.

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Wrap Up the CHIPS Act

While authorization for legislation to incentivize domestic semiconductor production was passed over a year ago, the funding has yet to be approved.

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Steve Kelman reports from his 50th college reunion

After a two-year delay due to the coronavirus pandemic, the Harvard College class of 1970 got the chance to reconnect.

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Closing the Gap on Cyber Policy by Focusing on FISMA

When it comes to federal cybersecurity policy, the executive branch is far ahead of Congress.

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Building a Foundation for Zero Trust

Agencies have until 2024 to achieve five goals set down by the White House.

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A hopeful update on the President's Management Agenda

Steve Kelman says there's a lot to like in the Biden administration's approaches to improving citizen satisfaction, employee engagement and acquisition reform

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The Federal Government Must Overcome 2 Challenges to Advance Cloud-Smart Strategies

The U.S. federal government is ahead of other industries in the adoption of multicloud, which is imperative to mission success.