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FILE - In this Wednesday, Feb. 3, 2021, file photo, Isabella Casillas Guzman attends a Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship confirmation hearing on her nomination to be Administrator of the Small Business Administration, on Capitol Hill in Washington. The new head of the Small Business Administration expects to make changes at the agency that she says will enable it to further help small companies devastated by the COVID-19 pandemic. (Tasos Katopodis/Pool Photo via AP, File)

SBA dropping thousands of temporary employees hired as part of COVID response

The Small Business Administration is planning to shed the equivalent of more than 3,400 full-time employees as part of its budget request for fiscal 2023.

Federal Newscast

Partnership for Public Service

A lot of what USAID does relies on this geographer

Open Data/Transparency

Would a joint environment with the private sector improve federal cybersecurity?

Technology

(AP Photo/Lynne Sladky)

FILE - In this Nov. 20, 2020, file photo a U.S. Department of Homeland Security plaque is displayed a podium as international passengers arrive at Miami international Airport where they are screened by U.S. Customs and Border Protection in Miami. The damned-if-you-pay-damned-if-you-don’t dilemma on ransomware payments has left U.S. officials fumbling about how to respond. While the Biden administration “strongly discourages” paying, it recognizes that failing to pay would be suicidal for some victims. (AP Photo/Lynne Sladky, File)

Homeland Security wants to ‘cut through the hype’ of AI, find best uses only

Technology

Extreme cold conditions cause ice accretions to cover the St. Joseph lighthouse and pier, on the southeastern shoreline of Lake Michigan, on Monday, Dec. 19, 2016, in St. Joseph, Mich. (Robert Franklin/South Bend Tribune via AP)

Like lighthouses, government silos prove durable

Tom Temin Commentary

For real HR transformation, begin with the customer

Commentary

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40 years after Inspector General Act, where does IG community go from here?

Agency Oversight

Data integration effort delivers savings, better decision making for HRSA

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FORT GEORGE G. MEADE, Md. (Dec. 14, 2017) Sailors stand watch in the Fleet Operations Center at the headquarters of U.S. Fleet Cyber Command/U.S. 10th Fleet. U.S. Fleet Cyber Command serves as the Navy component command to U.S. Strategic Command and U.S. Cyber Command. U.S. 10th Fleet is the operational arm of Fleet Cyber Command and executes its mission through a task force structure. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Samuel Souvannason/Released)

New Army, Navy Cyber Mission teams deploy ahead of schedule

Detail On Defense

Increased tension in cloud operations opens new doors for cybersecurity vendors

OCC looks for data’s context, ‘not just numbers, not just ones and zeros’

A pathway to transformation

Jon Etherton, president of Etherton and Associates, will discuss a new report that looks at how to fix the defense acquisition system.
December 9, 2014

Off the Shelf

Copy data management

Ash Ashutosh, CEO of Actifio, will discuss how his company can help your agency reduce the size and cost of its data center.
July 29, 2014

Federal Tech Talk

National Cancer Institute hopes to find a cure in the cloud

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George Komatsoulis, the National Cancer Institute’s deputy director of the center for biomedical informatics and IT, and acting chief information officer, said through the Cloud Atlas Genome project, NCI is trying to reduce costs to access data by medical research institutions and to make sharing of the this data and collaboration easier.
April 17, 2014