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The 1.1-point decrease on the employee engagement and satisfaction index indicates many agencies are still struggling with challenges like return-to-office uncertainty, the Partnership for Public Service said.
April 12, 2023 -
No cybersecurity measure is 100% reliable. That's why agencies need a dose of resilience -- the ability to get back to normal — if a cyber attack were to succeed.
April 11, 2023 -
If you buy or approve the acquisition of software for the government, you probably already know. You're going to have to deal with something called a software bill of materials, or S-BOM as part of understanding what you're getting.
April 07, 2023 -
The Office of Personnel Management will soon launch a pair of cyber workforce dashboards to try to help agencies better understand gaps in their cyber workforce, while also trying to attract more job candidates to open cyber positions.
April 05, 2023 -
Human migration patters, the billowing drug trade, allies nervous about China, it's all picked up the pace for the U.S. Coast Guard.
April 04, 2023 -
The great Solar Winds breach back in 2020 prompted many agencies to improve their cybersecurity. Even the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) found it had to improve its own ability to detect threats.
March 30, 2023 -
CISA hired hundreds last year, and it plans to hire even more this year, as the agency looks to keep up with a growing stack of cyber responsibilities.
March 29, 2023 -
The Homeland Security Department has launched several initiatives to improve employee engagement, including ‘jump teams,’ which try to solve problems at field offices.
March 28, 2023 -
The Biden administration sees a major opportunity to sell office space the federal government no longer needs, now that much of the federal workforce has adapted to working from home.
March 22, 2023 -
Agencies have new guidance from the Office of Personnel Management to implement a federal rotational cyber workforce program, which will officially launch this November.
March 21, 2023 -
Federal contractors don't see a lot of room for growth after inflation in fiscal 2024, with a few large agencies actually requesting a reduction in funding relative to what was enacted in 2023.
March 21, 2023 -
DHS has brought on a U.S. Digital Service veteran to lead a new customer experience directorate.
March 17, 2023 -
A simple list of names doesn't do justice to Presidential Rank Awardees, plus GAO launches look-see into TSP snafus
March 09, 2023 -
Immigration and citizenship laws are complicated, but advocates are upset about how long it takes U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) to process unlawful presence waivers. So much so, the American Immigration Council recently filed suit against the Biden administration.
March 07, 2023 -
Homeland Security officials this year will test the extent to which software can verify the authenticity of an ID based off just a smartphone photo and then correctly match an individual in a “selfie” to the photo ID.
March 07, 2023