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OMB’s Cornelius to lead industry association

Reporter's Notebook
Tue December 10, 2019

Matthew Cornelius left the Office of Management and Budget after almost three years to become the executive director of the Alliance for Digital Innovation (ADI), an industry association, while USDA, OPM and the FCC gain new senior executives.

Agencies find higher quality candidates under new Digital Service, OPM hiring pilot

Hiring/Retention
Fri October 25, 2019

The U.S. Digital Service said it sees promise in a new hiring pilot designed to better find and screen candidates who are truly qualified for the job, with help from agency subject matter experts.

Commerce IG auditing Census Bureau’s cybersecurity ahead of 2020 count

Federal Newscast
Mon October 21, 2019

In today's Federal Newscast, the Commerce Department’s inspector general is running an audit of the bureau’s cybersecurity measures.

Lots of under-35s work for the government, just not in it

Tom Temin Commentary
Mon October 21, 2019

You'll find larger numbers of young people working on federal contracts rather than at the awarding agencies.

OPM to launch job rotation program for cyber reskilling academy graduates

Hiring/Retention
Tue October 8, 2019

OPM is working with the Federal CIO Council to create a job rotation program for federal employees who went through the Federal Cybersecurity Reskilling Academy.

Federal workforce reform: The conversation is just getting started

Commentary
Thu October 3, 2019

Bernie Kluger, a former deputy performance improvement officer at OPM, makes the case that if Americans begin to see government as the one employer best able to provide work with meaning, then they have a personal reason to be invested in its improvement.

Dark cloud over OPM leaves employees fearing long-term damage

Workforce
Wed October 2, 2019

Federal News Network conducted a six-month investigation on the long-term consequences of the Trump administration’s proposed merger of OPM and GSA.

SBA embracing more digital services in its plan to modernize data

Big Data
Tue September 24, 2019

Nagesh Rao in SBA’s Office of the Chief Information Officer said the last few years have really seen a push to a cloud-based solutions as much as possible.

IT executives at DHS, OMB on the move

Reporter's Notebook
Mon September 23, 2019

Kshemendra Paul joined the Veterans Affairs Department as its new chief data officer after spending the last almost three years at the Homeland Security Department. Meanwhile, SBA hires Bill Hunt from OMB and Labor promotes a new deputy CIO.

At 3 agencies, here’s what customer experience overhaul looks like

Agency Oversight
Fri September 20, 2019

More than two dozen public-facing program offices have released new data on their annual workloads and are looking at ways to transform their approach to customer service through long-term strategies.

In new batch of federal hiring advice, OPM urges agencies to review how they assess job candidates

Hiring/Retention
Fri September 13, 2019

The latest rendition of guidance from the Office of Personnel Management urges agencies to involve subject matter experts earlier on in the federal hiring process, better analyze and then describe a job's tasks and responsibilities and improve assessments to evaluate candidates.

Digital services offered by the CMS have expanded

Federal Drive
Fri September 13, 2019

Shannon Sartin earned a SAMMIES nomination as one of the people driving the expansion of online services at CMS.

$Ready for modernization? US Digital Service launches \'maturity determination tool\' to make that call$

Ready for modernization? US Digital Service launches 'maturity determination tool' to make that call

Technology
Thu September 12, 2019

The U.S. Digital Service has launched a tool to make sure agencies overhauling their IT don’t bite off more than they can chew.

Civic digital fellows exchange tech skills for lessons in government bureaucracy

Workforce
Tue August 13, 2019

Many of students in this year's Civic Digital Fellowship program this summer said they were inspired by the impact they had to make a difference on the products and services the American people use every day.

The region is feeling the Amazon ripple effect

What's Working in Washington
Fri August 2, 2019

Michael Hoffman, president of GovernmentCIO Media, discusses the results of an upcoming survey on sentiment for technology consumers in the region, as well as how companies are scrambling to take advantage of Amazon's HQ2 plans.

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