This post first appeared on GAO Reports. Read the original article. What GAO Found The Department of the Treasury administers the Emergency Rental Assistance (ERA) program, which provides nearly $46.55 billion to tribal, state, territorial, and local governments (grantees) to help low-income households affected by the COVID-19 pandemic pay rent and utilities. By June 2021—5 (more…)
How an Agile Government Can Improve Operations, Service, and Public Trust
This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Thursday, December 15, 2022 Dan Chenok “Imagine if clear definitions of missions, wide reliance on evidence, and carefully crafted guiding metrics informed collaboration via small cross-functional teams, who involved both customers and the public in innovating quickly and iterating on solutions to (more…)
The Future of AGILE GOVERNMENT
This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. The Future of Agile Government.pdf G. Edward DeSeve In software development, agile techniques feature small, cross-functional, selforganizing teams that include customers working quickly to deliver solutions in increments that immediately provide value. The development is customer-centric and collaborative networks are used for (more…)
Strengthening Government’s Emergency Preparedness and Response Capacity in Addressing “Future Shocks”
This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Wednesday, December 14, 2022 Dan Chenok A new report draws on insights from experts to help government leaders and stakeholders build on lessons captured from the pandemic and other recent crisis events. Government leaders increasingly find that “unexpected events” are now neither (more…)
Biden’s Judicial Nominations Have Set Records for Diversity, but Dozens Remain Unconfirmed
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. The president has prioritized nominating people from underrepresented backgrounds in terms of race, gender and professional experience, but advocates say there’s still ‘a long way to go.’
Partnering for Resilience
This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Partnering for Resilience.pdf Chris Mihm A practical approach to emergency preparedness. Government leaders increasingly agree that “rare unexpected events” are now neither rare nor unexpected. Indeed, they are shocks—more frequent and more destabilizing. One now follows closely on the heels of another, (more…)
Delivering Mission-Critical Digital Initiatives: A Conversation with Lily Zeleke, Acting Deputy CIO, Information Enterprise (IE), U.S. Department of Defense
This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Broadcast Date: Monday, December 12, 2022 Lily Zeleke
Weekly Roundup December 4-9, 2022
This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Friday, December 9, 2022 Michael J. Keegan Articles & insights in public management & leadership that we have found of interest for the week ending December 9, 2022. Senate passed bill to ‘stop the government speak’ in agency documents. The Senate unanimously (more…)
Why security in cloud-native workloads starts at the container level
This post first appeared on Federal News Network. Read the original article. New, cloud-enabled approaches to application development require new approaches to securing them. Specifically, cloud-native applications typically employ containerization and microsegmentation of workloads to limit so-called east-west access of workloads. This includes communications among containers when they’re combined into an application. That strategy stands (more…)
Democrats Threaten Year-Long Stopgap Measure as Spending Talks Remain at a Standstill
This post first appeared on Government Executive. Read the original article. Lawmakers concede a long-term CR would devastate agencies, though a bipartisan breakthrough to avoid a shutdown has proven elusive.