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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.
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Helping DOGE break down data silos
COMMENTARY | By adopting modern data architectures like enterprise data lakes, agencies can dismantle these silos.
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Legacy government systems enter the AI era
COMMENTARY | How Federal agencies can transform decades-old code while strengthening security and compliance.
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GSA has been given more of the government’s contracting authority
COMMENTARY | Folding SEWP and CIOSP into GSA may unbalance the system.
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Five strategies for government software modernization
COMMENTARY | There's more than one way to modernize.
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Empowering US federal agencies through strategic data sharing: A blueprint for success
COMMENTARY | A robust multi-modal data-sharing framework can drive mission success.
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Honoring Joseph Nye’s legacy of ethical leadership
Distinguished Harvard scholar who redefined national security and mentored generations dies at 88.
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Has DOGE missed its opportunity?
COMMENTARY | A former federal executive charts a viable long-term plan for DOGE to achieve success.
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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.
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Mounting cyber defense in the face of unexpected staff reductions
Strategies for dealing with cybersecurity challenges hitting agencies right now.
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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.
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Transforming federal IT: best practices for driving software innovation
Software development is accelerating.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Proactive responses to termination for convenience or stop-work orders
COMMENTARY | Here are a few ways contractors ought to respond.
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The need for collaborative global cyber diplomacy is growing
COMMENTARY | Strengthening global cyber collaboration is needed now more than ever.
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America's digital infrastructure belongs to you
COMMENTARY | We’ve seen unprecedented attacks on our nation’s federal digital infrastructure, from removing or restricting datasets and tools, to taking websites offline, to widespread layoffs.
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Three ways agencies can prepare before AI costs skyrocket
These three steps might save you some heartburn.
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