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This fed has a long career as an engineer and cyber security practitioner for the Navy and Marine Corps. He reached the Senior Executive Service years ago. Now he's on the civilian side of government, as the chief information security officer for the Homeland Security Department.
DHS is driving toward ambitious burden reduction goals by requiring components to leverage "usability tests" for any public information collections.
Like every agency, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) relies on its acquisition workforce to keep it supplied. In the ongoing crisis at the U.S. southern border, CBP appears to have a secret weapon in the person of its assistant commissioner for the office of acquisition.
A FEMA spokesperson told Federal News Network the new headquarters will include a larger space for FEMA’s National Response Coordination Center, and that the new space “fits the unique needs of emergency management.”
The higher the employee response rate for FEVS, the more accurate the picture that chief human capital officers get into what their workforce both wants and needs. But for many agencies, it’s a challenging feat.
As the artificial intelligence phenomenon rolls on, the question emerges: What are the cybersecurity-attack implications of AI? Now Carnegie Mellon University's Software Engineering Institute has formed a team called the Artificial Intelligence Security Incident Response Team. It's working with sponsors in the Defense and Homeland Security Departments. For more, the Federal Drive with Tom Temin spoke with the Director of the CERT division of the Software Engineering Institute, Greg Touhill.
The Federal Protective Service is still facing steep staff shortages amid a rise in threats to government employees and facilities.
DHS's new Supply Chain Resilience Center will aim to marshal stakeholders to help avoid the type of shortages and bottlenecks that roiled the country during COVID-19.
Between newly introduced bipartisan legislation and guidance from OPM, military spouses are getting several possible avenues to more flexible employment in government.
The new office aims to bring more transparency and evidence-based decision-making to DHS, but it will require the buy-in of the department’s many components.
In today's Federal Newscast: Bain Capital has bought consulting firm Guidehouse for $5.3 billion. There’s new leadership at one of the largest federal law enforcement employee groups. And the head of the Pentagon office responsible for investigating UFOs has identified retirement as his next step.
Eric Hysen, the DHS chief information officer, and Dana Chisnell, the director of CX, are expanding their priorities areas to include more customer and employee experience goals as outlined in a new IT strategic plan.
Jeff Rezmovic, the nominee to serve as DHS CFO, wants to get the department's financial management off GAO's high-risk list once and for all.
DHS plans to use its own approach for evaluating contractor cybersecurity rather than adopting the Pentagon's CMMC program.