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Upgrading IT – Which software solution should you choose?

Choosing the optimal software platform, as well as strategically choosing the right innovation partner, is one of the key steps to fruitful modernization,…

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Frictionless transactions in federal IT

Federal Tech Talk

A TSA worker helps passengers at the Salt Lake City International Airport Wednesday Jan., 16, 2019, in Salt Lake City. The government shutdown has generated an outpouring of generosity to TSA agents and other federal employees who are working without pay. In Salt Lake City, airport officials treated workers from the TSA, FAA and Customs and Border Protection to a free barbecue lunch as a gesture to keep their spirits up during a difficult time. (AP Photo/Rick Bowmer)

What to do about the TSA? Hint: Pay them more

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TSA leaders promise to make the agency a better place to work

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Is it time to change federal retirement benefits?

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Federal government’s employer brand is in trouble

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Will artificial intelligence replace many federal workers?

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HR — The $5 billion question

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Can your agency force you to relocate?

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Federal pay: Primum non nocere

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Should we kill FERS?

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Why hiring reforms in the 2019 NDAA may not make a difference

Jeff Neal, former CHCO at DHS, says that the new hiring authority included in the 2019 NDAA is not a bad idea.

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Should we care the civil service is becoming fractured?

Traditionally, most knowledgeable folks thought fracturing the federal workforce into different hiring, classification and pay systems, or “Balkanizing”…

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The shrinking federal workforce

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Are agencies hiring at levels consistent with their budgets and past hiring practices? Former DHS CHCO Jeff Neal looks at OPM’s employment numbers.