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J. Russell George, Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration, explains how IRS can improve its customer service.
The NetWars tournament is a six-hour challenge conducted over two days at the SANS national conference.
Brian Moran, CEO of governmentCIO, is a strategist in government IT.
Tom Trabucco, director of external affairs at the Federal Retirement Thrift Investment Board, explains the difference on the return of the investment for people who constantly changed compared to people who held steady.
Dr. Nicole Lurie, assistant secretary for Preparedness and Response, explains what HHS hopes the apps will accomplish.
Trying to change the culture-driven patterns of IT spending in the military services by issuing edicts would not work, and should not work, the Pentagon\'s chief information officer said. She said she sees her role as making sure the services have what they need, and that their IT efforts benefit DoD as an enterprise.
When children go back to school at Defense Department schools — such as those on military bases —, they\'ll find a new technology-based curriculum.
A new toolkit known as \"SpyEye\" allows hackers to issue commands to networks of thousands of bot computers to deliver scam and conduct hack attacks. And the price on the cyber black market is going down, meaning the tool could be in a lot more nefarious hands soon.
Ann Marie Oliva, head of the the Housing and Urban Development Department\'s Office of Special Needs Assistance Programs, joined the Federal Drive to discuss how she helped HUD meet its goals to more speedily process grants to help the homeless. Her efforts have earned her a finalist position for a Service to America Medal.
Daniel Fiorino, an American University professor and author of an IBM Center report on the 2009 executive order mandating sustainability, joined the Federal Drive to discuss the green efforts a little less than two years later. In his report, he said agencies could learn from the private sector\'s sustainability efforts.
Mike White, managing editor of the Federal Register, joined the Federal Drive to discuss recent tech efforts from the Government Printing Office and the National Archives. The two agencies have issued an API to allow developers to take a crack at creating apps based on information stored on the Federal Register\'s website.
On today\'s Federal Drive: a new framework for the Senior Executive Service, the Pentagon\'s inspector general investigates the department\'s personnel chief over allegations of mismanagement and abuse of power, and a proposed OPM rule would allow federal employees to run for local office.
A new governmentwide framework for evaluating the top career employees in the Senior Executive Service will be rolled out at the end of September. Steve Shih, a deputy associate director in the Office of Personnel Management, said it will bring uniformity and predictability to a process that now seems uneven.
Hedetniemi says his NIH job allows him to be creative while helping to meet the agency\'s mission to eradicate disease.