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If any federal agency was in the spotlight at the beginning of the pandemic, it was the Small Business Administration. While SBA employees, like so many, made the swift move to maximize telework, they were simultaneously tasked with administering a trillion-dollar loan program.
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A look at how the pandemic has impacted the Argonne National Laboratory’s workflow and influenced its “Future of Work.”
If any agency was embracing the “future of work” year ago, NASA might be at the top of list, if not the top of the world. It is positioned way beyond the technological cutting edge, its workplaces and workers are spread-out all over the country, and often times it has those people working from the ultimate remote location: space.
No matter when federal employees return to the office, the fact is citizens, businesses and agencies themselves started to see what the digital future is and could be.
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CISA issues patch reminder after federal agency hacked via outdated software
The hackers were likely mapping the unidentified agency’s network, but “no evidence is available to confirm successful data exfiltration or lateral movement during either incident,” CISA says.
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GAO blames staffing shortages for agencies’ failures to battle cyber attacks
In today’s Federal Newscast: Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Ala.) has lifted his abortion-driven hold on military promotions. Job satisfaction at the Homeland Security Department has increased. And GAO blames staffing shortages for the failure of federal agencies to battle cyber attacks.
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Let’s stop the end-of-year cloud rush
A closer look shows that public clouds are not always less expensive than on-premise solutions and are not a panacea for controlling IT costs. This is especially the case with transactional systems, where the application is on-premise and the data is in the public cloud.
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Using Medicare data to uncover hidden signs of elder abuse
Across the country, crimes involving elder abuse and elder neglect routinely go unreported. But even when those cases are not immediately reported to police, there can often be clues in Medicare and Medicaid data. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) already looks for those signs in claims data. But a recent IG audit found a lot more cases that could have been reported to state and local authorities if CMS had done a more rigorous analysis. Curtis Roy is a regional inspector general with the Health and Human Services IG’s office. Richard Miller is an assistant regional inspector general. They talked with Federal News Network’s Jared Serbu about their findings, on the Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
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Cyber rotation program aims to boost skills, retention of federal employees
In the hopes of boosting employee retention, the Office of Personnel Management launched a new platform for agencies to advertise openings in a cyber workforce rotation program.
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VA outlines fixes to VA.gov errors impacting benefits for more than 120,000 veterans
The Department of Veterans Affairs is outlining plans to conduct a full review of its website, after discovering technical problems that may have delayed disability claims for more than 100,000 veterans.
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Intel agencies look to build skills through public-private talent exchange
The intelligence community’s “public-private talent exchange” will start with an initial cohort of IC officers doing rotational assignments at companies in the space sector.
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The role of data optimization for the DoD’s EHR and CX efforts
Starting with a journey map based on an HCD methodology is crucial. This approach can enable the data to be used for insights beyond individual medical treatment, including how a researcher may use this data to inform how it’s stored or what groups can access it.
