web and video conferencing

GSA CIO, IG spar over purchase of China-made video conferencing cameras

Lawmakers took GSA to task for purchasing 150 China-made video conferencing cameras in 2022, calling it “a very troubling episode.”

Cybersecurity

In this photo provided by the New York Unified Court System, a virtual arraignment is conducted at Criminal Court in New York, Wednesday, March 25, 2020. New York City's criminal court has started conducting all arraignments by video conferencing to limit traffic in courthouses during the coronavirus outbreak. (New York Unified Court System via AP)

Video conference calls might be limiting your creativity

Workforce

Rep. Connolly demands to know if the DHS IG is under investigation

Federal Newscast

How the pandemic and its aftermath continue to roil the federal workforce

Hiring/Retention

(Energy Department)

Sloppy expense-accounts leave former government scientist owing thousands of dollars

Federal Newscast

GAO

Virtual immigration hearings during COVID could have gone better, GAO says

Agency Oversight

Teleworking here to stay: What’s in it for you?

Federal Report

Navy transitioning more than 200K users to new online collaboration platform next week

Navy

When the pandemic hit, VA was more ready than its patients

Veterans Affairs

Committee to reform House is off to a running start in the 117th Congress

Congress

This screenshot provided by the Virginia House of Delegates shows the zoom screen during the session Wednesday Feb. 10, 2021.(Virginia House of Delegates via AP)

How to live with Zoom in Year 2

Tom Temin Commentary

USAID, FCC team up on improving 5G policies

The U.S. Agency for International Development and the FCC might seem like strange bedfellows, but they’ve got an interest in 5G.

Technology

documents, papers, files, records, office

FOIA officials confront pandemic challenges in meeting records requests

The rush to mandatory telework in the early months of the coronavirus pandemic laid bare the state of agencies’ investment — or lack thereof — in…

IT Modernization

The hand of a young woman working at remote work

NSF had secure telework down to a science years ago

Technology

The 1,600 employees of the National Science Foundation started working from home in March – a familiar story to so many across the country. But NSF might have been a little more prepared to make the switch.