This post first appeared on Federal News Network. Read the original article. The General Services Administration is once again struggling with a major systems modernization project, causing an increasingly high level of frustration among vendors and grantees. Now, a powerful congressman is demanding answers about why three months into the transition to the new way (more…)

This post first appeared on Federal News Network. Read the original article. The intelligence community is updating training standards and reviewing historical data to ensure the process of obtaining a security clearance isn’t a barrier to hiring and retaining more women, minorities and other individuals from diverse backgrounds. The effort comes as the intelligence community (more…)

This post first appeared on Federal News Network. Read the original article. Among efforts to increase diversity, equity, inclusion and accessibility in the federal workforce, women still fall significantly behind in representation for agencies’ science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) roles. Women comprised just 29.3% of federal STEM workers, the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission reported (more…)

This post first appeared on IBM Business of Government. Read the original article. Friday, July 15, 2022 Michael J. Keegan Highlighting articles and insights in public management and leadership that we have found of interest for the week ending July 15, 2022. Preparing governments for future shocks. IBM, working through the IBM Center for The (more…)

This post first appeared on Federal News Network. Read the original article. Now seven years on, the U.S. Marshals Service is modernizing its legacy systems to a cloud environment. Working with limited funding and a tag-team approach, the agency found a way to satisfy stakeholders and increase data access for mission areas. Jarrod Bruner joined (more…)

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This post first appeared on Federal News Network. Read the original article. Members of Congress are investigating whether third-party records companies are profiting from a pandemic-induced backlog of veterans disability claims. The National Archives and Records Administration has been trying to speed up records requests to process the claims but to no avail, impeding veterans’ (more…)

This post first appeared on Federal News Network. Read the original article. This column was originally published on Roger Waldron’s blog at The Coalition for Government Procurement and was republished here with permission from the author. The Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Air Force for Acquisition Maj. Gen. Cameron Holt is no stranger to Coalition for Government (more…)

This post first appeared on Federal News Network. Read the original article. These days, government security IT groups no longer hold sole responsibility for their team’s cybersecurity efforts toward network and data protection. Cybersecurity now has visibility all the way up the chain and is a paramount requirement for all cloud migration and digital transformation (more…)

This post first appeared on Federal News Network. Read the original article. Thoughts on the just-out Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings: all in all, the Best Places to Work rankings are a downer this year, with averages falling across the board in 2021 versus 2020. Yes, 2020 — the year of (more…)