Paperwork Reduction Act

FILE - The Department of Homeland Security logo is seen during a news conference in Washington, Feb. 25, 2015. DHS says a looming Supreme Court decision on abortion, an increase of migrants at the U.S.-Mexico border and the midterm elections are potential triggers for extremist violence over the next six months. DHS said June 7, 2022, in the National Terrorism Advisory System bulletin the U.S. was in a

DHS sees ‘usability testing’ as central to big burden reduction goals

DHS is driving toward ambitious burden reduction goals by requiring components to leverage “usability tests” for any public information collections.

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Mississippi Elections

A review of federal efforts to improve citizen experience and reduce administrative burden

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Getty Images/iStockphoto/Tero Vesalainencustomer experience

DHS launching new ‘customer experience’ directorate this month

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OMB memo directs agencies to study federal customer experience barriers

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(AP Photo/Alex Brandon)FILE - In this April 5, 2009 file photo, the Department of Health and Human Services building is seen in Washington.  A government audit finds that more than 1 in 4 cases of possible sexual and physical abuse against nursing home patients apparently went unreported to police. The Health and Human Services inspector general's office faults Medicare for failing to enforce a federal law that requires nursing homes to immediately notify police.  (AP Photo/Alex Brandon, File)

Data management emerges as a top performance challenge for Health and Human Services

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Getty Images/iStockphoto/Tero Vesalainencustomer experience

4 ways to improve your customer experience, from agencies already deep in the trenches

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FILE - This Feb. 19, 2014, file photo, shows WhatsApp and Facebook app icons on a smartphone in New York. The government’s fight with Apple over an encrypted iPhone may be the first of many battles in a broader war over who gets access to individuals’ data, as more tech companies offer encrypted messaging and other services. WhatsApp, the globally popular messaging system owned by Facebook, has already run into trouble with Brazilian authorities, who arrested a Facebook executive earlier in March 2016 after the company said it had no way to unscramble a user’s encrypted messages. (AP Photo/Patrick Sison, File)

Rise of tweets, self-deleting encrypted messages concern lawmakers

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GSA, OMB seek new boundaries for Web analytics

There\’s a push to expand the use of tools designed to give federal Web managers a better idea of just who is using agency websites. The goal is to improve…

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