Some agencies fear top talent will leave for the private sector or other places in the federal government with more generous telework policies if they don’t change and offer their own workforce flexibilities.
If you missed any of our exclusive, three-day special event with Defense Department industry experts, have no fear. You can catch up on all the insights with feds and vendors in the DoD Cloud Exchange Archive, like this conversation between Rob Carey, the president of Cloudera Government Solutions, and Federal Drive anchor Tom Temin about developing a good cloud strategy.
The Cyber Diplomacy Act would create a Bureau of International Cyberspace Policy at the State Department, led by an ambassador with the same rank and status as an assistant secretary of state.
Although vulnerabilities stemming from both companies software were present on hundreds of DoD systems, officials say there’s no evidence that cyber adversaries actually exploited them.
Joe Castle, a recent PhD graduate from Virginia Tech, who studied federal technology policy and open source software, and is a federal employee, said culture, public engagement, structural factors and organizational location are all drivers for why an agency would share open source code.
Data is a blessing and a curse, but some entities are using it successfully, and changing their approach.
A new working group has arisen at the Council of the Inspectors General on Integrity and Efficiency, the collective of all the federal IGs.
VA on Wednesday acknowledged a variety of challenges with the new electronic health record, but it said the Cerner Millennium solution will ultimately be an improvement once employee and congressional concerns are resolved.
When it comes to the cloud, state governments, like the one in Maryland, are combining commercial-cloud providers with their own data centers for mission delivery, backup and recovery.
