State Department
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The fiscal 2023 omnibus includes several technology-related policy provisions that agencies should pay close attention to over the next year.
December 22, 2022 -
The U.S. Agency for International Development recently re-established a group called the Advisory Committee on Voluntary Foreign Aid. It was chartered back in 1946, but it hasn't met in a couple of years. Now it's back to work.
December 22, 2022 -
Congress is backing many of the State Department’s plans to modernize its workforce and bring its diplomatic into the 21st century in the latest defense policy bill.
December 16, 2022 -
The State Department is looking at data analytics to more effectively buy the IT systems and services it needs to modernize.
December 13, 2022 -
Software supply chair risk management isn’t just for DoD and the Intelligence Community anymore. Get a primer on implementing SCRM from CISA’s Bob Costello, OMB’s Chris DeRusha and State’s Zetra Batiste.
December 06, 2022 -
Part of the lengthy to-do list for legislators by the end of the year, several bills and amendments may have significant impacts for the federal workforce.
November 23, 2022 -
The State Department’s workforce has almost fully recovered from an agency-wide hiring freeze implemented in 2017 under the Trump administration.
November 15, 2022 -
The State Department, for the first time, holds disaggregated workforce data sets that break down the composition of its workforce across nearly every one of its offices.
November 09, 2022 -
The Office of Personnel Management removed economist and auditor from its list of high risk mission critical occupations, but said more work is needed to close the skills gap for acquisition, human resources and cybersecurity professionals.
November 07, 2022 -
Although there’s some disagreement over when agencies will actually start benefitting from them, many agencies are currently laying the foundation to start using SBOMs.
October 28, 2022 -
Energy Department CIO Ann Dunkin puts cyber defense at the center of her efforts.
October 27, 2022 -
The largest federal employee union is joining State Department employees and members of Congress in calling for the firing of a Foreign Service officer for allegedly running a website with antisemitic content.
October 27, 2022 -
In our new ebook, we learn from leaders across the government — at the Army, Homeland Security, NSF, Navy, State, Transportation and TSA — how they are progressing in using data faster to make smarter decisions.
October 27, 2022 -
The State Department offers tuition assistance and a stipend to graduate students who are awarded William D. Clarke, Sr. Diplomatic Security Fellowships
October 24, 2022 -
Gharun Lacy, the deputy assistant secretary and assistant director for cyber and technology security at the Foreign Affairs Cybersecurity Center at the State Department, said reducing the time between alert and response is their main focus.
October 17, 2022