Tom Temin Commentary
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DIUx is panning for diamonds. The Pentagon may not really need this elaborate apparatus.
September 16, 2016 -
Adobe says only 37 percent of federal websites are mobile friendly.
September 15, 2016 -
The updated USAJobs.gov is looking pretty good. As in, two clicks to lists of jobs in your general area of expertise.
September 14, 2016 -
Hillary Clinton seems to have a real love of policy detail. Donald Trump is more of a broad-brush painter.
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 -
A decade-and-a-half on, the federal government in many ways still grapples with the right response to whatever it is that besets us and the rest of the world.
September 08, 2016 -
Approve of them or not, these vast and Byzantine federal programs at the ground level provide lifelines to millions of people. So summary execution of them is no answer.
September 07, 2016 -
Objectively speaking not one soul will be any the worse for not shelling out for a new iPhone.
September 06, 2016 -
Excited about the 1.6 percent pay raise for 2017? Congratulations, federal employees. You're part of the 1 percent club!
September 01, 2016 -
Of course people will like Metro Wi-Fi. Where we really want it is in the trains for the whole trip.
August 31, 2016 -
Perseverance may sometimes look crazy, but it depends on why you push.
August 30, 2016 -
Years after passage and enactment, the ACA is still a prism refracting people's fundamental view of what government should or should not do.
August 29, 2016 -
What the Army needs to worry about is a bathtub-shaped dip in productivity 'til people get used to what lies ahead.
August 19, 2016 -
If you like the mechanics of politics, the selection process for vice presidential candidates is a thesis-worthy subject all by itself.
August 18, 2016 -
Maybe Edsel is a good analogy for phased retiremnet. Long in the making, highly touted, yet when it rolled out nobody bit.
August 17, 2016