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The Department of Homeland Security is studying whether to name a new senior official to serve as its chief data officer. It would be only the fourth cabinet-level agency to do so.
Michael Hoefer, chief of the office of performance and quality at U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, talks data optimization and winning a silver medal.
For the third month in a row, the Office of Personnel Management’s retirement claims backlog has ticked upward.
Heather Gittings, the global industry director of the public sector and healthcare for Qlik, describes why agencies need to understand the where and what of the data.
If data is the lifeblood of agencies, the National Technical Information Service at the Commerce Department makes sure agencies have good circulation.
Arthur Herman, senior fellow at the Hudson Institute and popular historian, discusses the way that new industries embracing quantum computing will require experts that are already rising in the D.C. region.
September saw fewer new retirement claims in September — 7,142 — than August — 8,826 — but OPM also processed fewer claims in that time than the month before.
Steven Dillingham, the Trump administration's pick to head up the Census Bureau, just 18 months out from the 2020 decennial count, faces the challenge of overseeing the first census that households can respond to online.
Gary DePreta, the area vice president for defense, intelligence and aerospace at Splunk, said many of these challenges can be reduced if agencies and organizations better understand the data around their cyber threats and vulnerabilities.
Linda Miller, the fraud risk management practice lead for Grant Thornton, said agencies continue to struggle to identify how big of a problem fraud is for their programs, partly because program managers don’t think it’s their responsibility.
The government's annual spending on grants dwarfs what it spends on contracts by $200 billion. Yet much of the effort devoted to spending transparency leaves out grants.
The Parker Solar Probe will take about three months to reach the sun and then penetrate the star's atmopshere. NASA planetary scientist Geronimo Villanueva spoke about it on Federal Drive with Tom Temin.
The Office of Personnel Management's latest monthly retirement claims report shows progress in some areas but the backlog is still not budging.
Two years out from the start of the first internet-driven population count, the Census Bureau is ramping up its cybersecurity focus, and has awarded the last of its major IT contracts.