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Strengthening the acquisition talent pipeline is a top GSA priority for 2022

The General Services Administration will partner with multiple agencies this year to assess, share and hire entry-level acquisition talent.

Federal Insights

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Agencies entering ‘execution’ phase of Biden’s cyber executive order

Cybersecurity

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CDOs making progress, feeling confident in role, survey finds

Big Data

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Federal cyber agencies call zero trust ‘new normal’ of security, partnering to implement

Cybersecurity

White House launches a new round of tech recruitment to nail down big problems

Hiring/Retention

Nicolas Chaillan is the Air Force’s chief software officer. (Photo courtesy AFCEA)

In goodbye message, Chaillan unloads his frustrations over DoD’s technology culture, processes

People

HUD, OPM gain new technology executives, CBP losing its CISO

Reporter's Notebook

President Joe Biden delivers remarks on the economy at the Cuyahoga Community College Metropolitan Campus, Thursday, May 27, 2021, in Cleveland. (AP Photo/Evan Vucci)

For IT, cyber policy goals, dig beneath the numbers of Biden’s 2022 request

Reporter's Notebook

Close up of hands typing on laptop. Night work concept.

First cohort of federal employees graduate from OMB’s data science upskilling program

Workforce

FILE - In this June 23, 2014, file photo, a recruiter, at left, takes the resume of an applicant during a job fair, in Philadelphia. On Thursday, May 11, 2017, the Labor Department reports on the number of people who applied for unemployment benefits the week before. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)

Agencies struggle to find qualified talent through public job postings, even with skills assessments

Hiring/Retention

Technology Modernization Fund on track to receive biggest pay day ever

Reporter's Notebook

Senate to get on the IT modernization bandwagon?

A draft manager’s amendment obtained by Federal News Network shows the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee also includes $650…

Reporter's Notebook

President-elect Joe Biden speaks about the COVID-19 pandemic during an event at The Queen theater, Thursday, Jan. 14, 2021, in Wilmington, Del. (AP Photo/Matt Slocum)

Biden proposal calls investments in federal IT ‘an urgent national security issue’

President-elect Biden announces American Rescue Plan that includes significant funding increases for federal technology and cybersecurity to address long-standing…

Budget

4 lessons from SBA’s $30M Certify platform debacle

Reporter's Notebook

The Small Business Administration’s inspector general found the four-year effort to develop a single platform, Certify.SBA.gov, for small businesses to apply for socioeconomic contracting programs fell well short of its goals.