Commentary
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Planning can't change the weather, but it can improve the time between disaster striking and people getting their lives back together.
October 11, 2016 -
Randy Silvey, president Silverlight Financial, answers seven questions for federal employees as they decide whether to retire or not.
October 11, 2016 -
Hart's and Holmstrom's work studied tensions between parties and conflicts of interest in contracts, something federal contracting officers deal with every day.
October 10, 2016 -
Neo Technology’s Emil Eifrem explains why graph databases are no longer the sole domain of enterprises and how law enforcement agencies and other government organizations are instead now using them to manage growing mountains of citizen information.
October 05, 2016 -
If things are working so well, what's the rush to transition when there's no real, hard deadline?
September 29, 2016 -
Monzy Merza, the director of cyber research and chief security evangelist for Splunk, makes the case for agencies to invest in training and educating its cyber workforce as much as tools and automation.
September 26, 2016 -
It's good news, bad news time again for federal retirees and folks who get Social Security, and as per usual Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says it’s the same thing.
September 20, 2016 -
Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah), chairman of the Oversight and Government Reform Committee, says agencies need to shift in a post-OPM data breach world to a new cybersecurity model.
September 19, 2016 -
DIUx is panning for diamonds. The Pentagon may not really need this elaborate apparatus.
September 16, 2016 -
Former DHS CHCO Jeff Neal says OPM has done more than just put lipstick on a pig with its USAjobs renovation.
September 15, 2016 -
Mav Turner, the director of Product Strategy for SolarWinds, details three strategies to help federal chief information officers be more successful as they move off legacy systems.
September 13, 2016 -
Silicon Valley may offer a siren call for gray feds, but by some accounts it's a hotbed of ageism.
September 12, 2016 -
We clearly need civil service reform, particularly with respect to hiring, but it will do no good if agencies are unaware of the authorities they have and how to use them.
September 07, 2016 -
George Holland, the vice president of federal strategy and business development for Juniper Networks, says virtualization and the cloud give agencies opportunities to do more with less.
September 07, 2016 -
Does your age or your health make life insurance too expensive? Senior Correspondent Mike Causey says if you work for Uncle Sam September is your lucky month.
September 07, 2016