May 2020 | WorkScoop

‘Citizen developers’ help Texas city build digital services quickly and affordably

More than 30 non-IT employees in Garland, a Dallas suburb of about 240,000, taught themselves how to design digital workflows making government more efficient.

May 28, 2020 By Ryan Johnston

Adult partly bald hunter is sitting outdoors near his shack at the wooden table and working on his laptop; aged businessman in overalls is working remotely on the netbook during his vacations

Sacramento State to host virtual summer camp for faculty

With classes set to take place online for the fall semester, the university's online summer camp will help faculty improve their online classes enhance the virtual experience…

May 27, 2020 By Betsy Foresman

Maj. Gen. Bruce Crawford, Commander of the U.S. Army Communications-Electronics Command, and Brig. Gen. Paul Rogers, Deputy Commander of the 46th Military Police Command discuss the future opportunities to expand the Michigan National Guard capabilities across the state during Exercise Northern Strike 17 Aug. 8, 2017. Northern Strike 17 is a National Guard Bureau-sponsored exercise uniting approximately 5,000 service members from 13 states and five coalition countries during the first two weeks of August 2017 at the Camp Grayling Joint Maneuver Training Center and the Alpena Combat Readiness Training Center, both located in northern Michigan and operated by the Michigan National Guard. The newly accredited Northern Strike demonstrates the Michigan National Guard’s ability to provide accessible, readiness-building opportunities for military units from all service branches to achieve and sustain proficiency in conducting mission command, air, sea and ground maneuver integration, together with synchronization of fires in a joint, multinational, decisive action environment. (Michigan National Guard photo by Spc. Alan Prince)

Inside the Army’s rapid IT response to COVID-19, with Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford

In an exclusive interview, Lt. Gen. Bruce Crawford describes the Army's ability to rapidly adapt and innovate during the coronavirus pandemic and how it led to continued…

May 22, 2020 By Billy Mitchell

Tracking people’s location and coronavirus outbreak: crowd of people keeping a safe distance and being located by a tracker app

Purdue Global launches free COVID-19 contact tracing class

The online course will train students in contact-tracing protocols, legal requirements, effective risk communication and how to analyze collected data.

May 22, 2020 By Betsy Foresman

Joint Service members and civilians perform deployed disbursing operations during Exercise Diamond Saber 2019 at Fort McCoy, Wis., June 26, 2019. Approximately 680 active duty, reserve and National Guard Soldiers, Airmen, Marines and Department of Defense civilian employees from 45 different organizations worldwide are taking part in Diamond Saber 2019, the Army’s only large-scale financial management exercise. (Army photo by Russell Gamache)

The Army’s financial management systems have enough tech. Here’s what they need next.

Hint: It involves people.

May 22, 2020 By Jackson Barnett

Two Female College Students Building Machine In Science Robotics Or Engineering Class

Edtech leaders are responsible for mentoring next generation, says 2020 NextGen award winner

Eden Konja, the IT director at Notre Dame Preparatory School, said he appreciates being named a 2020 NextGen: Emerging EdTech Leader but that his focus is on…

May 21, 2020 By Jake Williams

Beautiful Male Computer Engineer and Scientists Create Neural Network at His Workstation. Office is Full of Displays Showing 3D Representations of Neural Networks.

Bellevue University starts fully online data science degree program

As demand for employees with skills in data science rises, Bellevue University in Nebraska announces a new program that focuses on using "data to tell a story."

May 20, 2020 By Betsy Foresman

Focused young developer coding late in office writing script shown on computer monitors, serious handsome coder programmer hacker programming developing software applications working alone at night

U. South Florida to offer cybersecurity courses for K-12 districts

The new program, which launches at schools in three Tampa-area counties this fall, will stress the importance of IT security and attempt to create talent pipeline to…

May 18, 2020 By Jake Williams

Shot of a bored-looking office worker seated at his desk looking at a laptop

Slow internet, poor preparation plague local governments amid pandemic

Local government IT leaders say they're facing a raft of issues as they work remotely, which they expect to continue managing for many months more.

May 14, 2020 By Colin Wood

U.S. Air Force Special Tactics operators from the 22nd Special Tactics Squadron establish communications during an airfield survey as part of a culmination exercise Mar. 10, 2020, at McChord Air Force Base, Wash. The CULEX challenged the operators to perform airfield survey and control procedures in a potentially austere environment in order to simulate humanitarian aid response during a natural disaster. Special Tactics is U.S. Special Operations Command’s tactical air and ground integration force, and the Air Force’s only special operations ground force, leading global access, precision strike, personnel recovery and battlefield surgery operations on the battlefield. (U.S. Air Force photo by Staff Sgt. Ridge Shan)

Air Force wants cyber experts to ‘make a living’ off hacking its tech

The Air Force wants to do so many bug bounties that hackers can "make a living" off it. Eventually, hackers will be a brought into the design…

May 14, 2020 By Jackson Barnett