The Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte are busy recalculating rankings for the Best Places to Work in the Federal Government.
Senior Deloitte Technologist Mark White discusses the ecosystem of services and software suppliers available to agencies interested in exploring blockchain.
Today the annual Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings are out, compiled by the Partnership for Public Service and Deloitte.
Several agencies sit low on the 2017 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government rankings, but they improved employee engagement significantly over the previous year.
The 2017 Best Places to Work in the Federal Government Rankings show a few familiar faces at the top and bottom of the list, but a closer look at the results shows several agencies with momentum moving in their favor. Here are nine insights from this year's rankings.
The MGT Act will give federal chief information officers a central fund of $3 billion from which they can draw to update obsolete IT systems.
A bill expected out of Congress would help pay for chief information officers to figure out strategies to modernize their systems.
Fresh research by Deloitte and the Senior Executives Association shows many federal executives feel don't trust the systems in place to develop and keep talent.
A new survey from Deloitte and the Senior Executives Association paints a grim picture of the senior executive corps.
Sean Westbrook, a digital media manager and content writer for True North ITG, makes the case for why agencies should move to the cloud sooner than later.
Bill Eggers, executive director of Deloitte's Center for Government Insights said that automation and artificial intelligence could free up billions of man-hours worth of paperwork. He tells Federal Drive with Tom Temin about some of the research to support that claim.
In part two of Federal News Radio's special report on the DATA Act, experts say the common spending standards can help agencies with their missions, and are trying to understand what it will take to reach full compliance by 2022.
In part one of Federal News Radio's special report on the DATA Act, Treasury Department and Office of Management and Budget officials say the three-year implementation is going well, while agency managers breathe a sigh of relief even as they prepare for the next step in standardized federal spending reports.
The Office of Personnel Management was the sixth agency to achieve final operating capability on an insider threat program. But OPM is among the few agencies who have set up such programs. Small agencies say cultural barriers, lack of resources and legal and privacy questions are among the obstacles preventing them from meeting the goal, but insider threat experts say those problems aren't unique.
The Trump administration's government reorganization directly impacts federal agencies, but Congress will have its work cut out as lawmakers balance their own jurisdictional priorities with policy and personnel changes.