Commentary
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Rick Hill, senior vice president at HumanTouch LLC, argues that DoD needs agility and flexibility and a single cloud approach under JEDI would not give them those features.
July 19, 2019 -
Many people still in government can remember when federal agencies near the White House had windows that opened and fans struggled to create a breeze.
July 19, 2019 -
Jeff Neal argues that executive orders against collective bargaining and flip-flopping FLRA majorities are not the way to make fundamental changes in civil service policy.
July 17, 2019 -
The current bull market is more than a decade old and is long overdue for a major correction. Financial planner Arthur Stein has plenty of federal clients and offered his thoughts.
July 17, 2019 -
Tom Temin argues it's not the idea that's problematic — it's the way Congress presents it.
July 16, 2019 -
Even though Federal Employees Health Benefits Program health premiums are likely to go up next year, Uncle Sam will continue to pay the lion’s share of the total premium.
July 16, 2019 -
Four experts explain how agencies can lessen the administrative cost of grants on grantees by taking a few simple steps.
July 15, 2019 -
Short answer is: Yes. You’d think an official, book-length report on how screwed up federal salaries are would be a bestseller both in major federal enclaves — Washington, D.C., Ogden, Utah, Oklahoma City, Huntsville, Ala.…
July 15, 2019 -
"Fat Leonard" Navy bribery has long ended, but not the aftershocks.
July 12, 2019 -
Many federal and postal workers live and work in high tax states, so many retire to low-or no-tax states to get more from their annuities.
July 11, 2019 -
All eyes are on Customs and Border Protection to make sure it holds accountable agents caught making lewd comments in a Facebook group.
July 10, 2019 -
A lot of people are now wondering if it's a good time to get out of government and do something else. Jeff Neal reminds feds that an ill-informed move could land you somewhere that is worse than where you are now.
July 10, 2019 -
When it eventually awards JEDI, DOD will have to be totally transparent.
July 09, 2019 -
Paperless government starts at the front end, not when records go to storage. The National Archives and Records Administration is forcing agencies to do things differently.
July 08, 2019 -
Adilson Jardim, the area vice president for public sector engineering at Splunk, explains why data is the key to making AI work in agencies.
July 05, 2019