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.
Read more about IT executives at DHS, OMB on the move
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.
Read more about At 3 agencies, here’s what customer experience overhaul looks like
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.
Read more about In new batch of federal hiring advice, OPM urges agencies to review how they assess job candidates
Shannon Sartin earned a SAMMIES nomination as one of the people driving the expansion of online services at CMS.
Read more about Digital services offered by the CMS have expanded
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.
Read more about Ready for modernization? US Digital Service launches 'maturity determination tool' to make that call
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.
Read more about Civic digital fellows exchange tech skills for lessons in government bureaucracy
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.
Read more about The region is feeling the Amazon ripple effect
The Office of Personnel Management said an IT outage impacted significant programs and mission for multiple hours last week. But a government source said the incident has been dramatized to make the case for the proposed OPM-GSA merger.
Read more about OPM IT outage sparks Trump administration's efforts to again make case for GSA merger
Amid a governmentwide effort to reskill the federal workforce, the Department of Veterans Affairs has taken steps to ensure it has the workforce it needs for a data-centric future.
Read more about VA pilots hands-on reskilling for its employees through 'mastery teams' initiative
Eddie Hartwig, the deputy administrator of the U.S. Digital Service (USDS), said the goal is to train 250 contracting officers under the Digital IT Acquisition Professional Program (DITAP).
Read more about USDS applying its own lessons learned to fix federal hiring, acquisition
The Department of Veterans Affairs said it's ready for MISSION Act implementation by June 6, despite concerns from Congress, the U.S. Digital Service and at least one veterans service organization who have suggested otherwise.
Read more about Rollout may not be perfect, but VA insists it's ready for the MISSION Act
In today's Federal Newscast, the Federal Services Impasses Panel sides mostly with management in a disputed between labor groups and the Health and Human Services Department.
Read more about Federal arbiters to cut down leave, telework days for HHS employees
In today's Federal Newscast, a bipartisan, bicameral group of lawmakers introduced two new bills to ensure federal employees don't lose insurance benefits during future government shutdowns.
Read more about Pair of bills would ensure federal workers don't lose insurance during future shutdowns
IT at the Department of Veterans Affairs took center stage on Capitol Hill Tuesday, as the House Veterans Affairs Committee held two hearings in attempt to better understand the agency's long list of challenges.
Read more about VA's legacy IT spend is going up, even as growing list of new projects call for tech upgrades
Paul Smith, senior vice president and general manager of North America Public Sector at Red Hat, explains the steps necessary to move an agency into Dev/Ops.
Read more about Digital transformation, cultural modernization cannot be mutually exclusive
