Tom Temin Commentary
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In attempting to obtain a presidential greeting for the retirement of a member of the clergy, I found out just how annoying and ultimately disappointing federal digital services can be. The White House web site itself provided the example.
March 14, 2016 -
NSA will have to get out of its own way if it wants to rapidly ingest innovation technology from people it doesn't know.
March 11, 2016 -
The MSPB in 2015 upheld agency decisions or actions on initial appeal nearly every time. But not for the Veterans Affairs Department. So what are the senators asking?
March 10, 2016 -
The inventor of the earliest functioning email protocol, Ray Tomlinson, has died at 74. Published reports say he was not himself particularly addicted to email.
March 09, 2016 -
For the past couple of decades, the nation's cities have become re-entranced with trolleys and streetcars. And the Transportation Department has aided and abetted this desire.
March 07, 2016 -
Thanks to the flawed Choice Act Congress hastily passed in 2014, SESers exist in a sort of twilight of civil service protection.
March 03, 2016 -
The GAO, the administrations who preside over improper payments, the chief financial officers — it's not fair to say they're nonchalant about it. More like inured, numb to the magnitude of it.
March 02, 2016 -
The federal government seems stuck in the second generation of online.
February 29, 2016 -
VA's processes for evaluating people are so messed up that leadership ends up living the legend that you can't do anything about federal employees no matter how badly they perform.
February 26, 2016 -
Give Rep. Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) the benefit of the doubt. Maybe he'll agree that in some jobs, feds do earn less than their private sector counterparts.
February 25, 2016 -
Identity thieves often don't care about you. They just want a valid date of birth, address and Social Security number.
February 24, 2016 -
Rep. Chaffetz and his cohorts had been after a scalp for the Great OPM Cybersecurity Breach. Now they have it. Actually it's their second.
February 23, 2016 -
With all of the cybersecurity guidance already out there, is there anything a new commission can add except more weight and complexity?
February 22, 2016 -
I see the FBI-Apple dispute as a cyber version of the "ticking bomb" conundrum: What means are justified to get information from a terrorist when you know there is a bomb ticking somewhere about to kill innocent people?
February 18, 2016 -
One prominent attorney believes MSPB is signaling to Congress it doesn't like the curtailment of employee civil rights.
February 18, 2016