Cybersecurity
NASA Reveals It Had a Security Breach in October
The agency is investigating the incident.
Modernization
Pentagon to Connect Experimental Background Check App To Other Systems By Year’s End
The Defense Department is testing its nascent app on 1,000 security clearance applicants ahead of an October deadline to take over all investigations work.
Digital Government
The Most Experienced Job Candidates Aren’t Always the Best
Spending many years in one position doesn’t always translate to talent.
Digital Government
Senate Republicans Prepare Two-Month CR to Avert Shutdown
Bill would keep unfunded agencies open until February.
Digital Government
Code for America Releases Call for Proposals for Its 2019 Summit
The civic tech organization is focused on four big problems.
Digital Government
A Government Shutdown Doesn’t Mean All the IT Shuts Down
Both baseline infrastructure and critical IT systems have to stay on during a shutdown, which means some IT staff won’t be furloughed.
Digital Government
If Feds Go Home For a Shutdown, Do Their Phones Go With Them?
A handful of potentially impacted agencies have updated their guidance since the last shutdown.
Artificial Intelligence
With AI, Your Next Job Could Be 'Flying Car Developer' Or 'Cyber Calamity Forecaster'
Can man and machine can co-exist at work?
Digital Government
How to Get Leadership Right, According to the CEO of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation
"Everyone deserves a great manager."
Emerging Tech
U.S. Customs and Border Protection Is Using Retinal Scans to Try to Catch Liars
The technology is supposedly faster, and cheaper, than traditional polygraph tests.
Modernization
Federal CIO Previews 2019 Priorities
OMB will roll out more reskilling programs, tweak FITARA scoring and is looking at standards for automated decision-making, Suzette Kent said.
Modernization
White House Expects to Stand Up GEAR Center in 2019
But most other key aspects of the modernization research center are up in the air.
Digital Government
The Simplest Tool For Innovation Is Also One of the Most Effective
It's one of the best ways to foster new ideas.
Digital Government
Pentagon to Take Over All Security Clearances in Nine Months, Officials Say
The move will mean absorbing the National Background Investigations Bureau and its 2,000 employees.
Digital Government
NASA Continues Its Reign Atop Best Places to Work in Government
Partnership for Public Service notes “sharp drop” in several factors affecting federal employee satisfaction.
Digital Government
Senate Bill Would Force Security Clearance Reforms
It also would require the director of National Intelligence to rethink the SF-86 form and process.
Digital Government
The Inventor of the Cubicle Created Them to Give Office Workers a Sense of Freedom
But now the cubicle has become a mark of replaceability.
Ideas
Stopping the Cybersecurity Brain Drain Calls for Outside the Box Thinking
Here are some non-traditional ways to fill those vacant positions.
Digital Government
Congress Approves Two-Week Spending Deal, Averting a Partial Shutdown
New government shutdown deadline is set for Dec. 21.
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