Federal agencies face more than a wage-scale disadvantage when competing with commercial firms for technology talent. They also have to overcome rigid hiring rules which tend to…
Federal IT leaders foresee a significant need for a wide range of IT skills at their agencies over the next two years, with the greatest demand expected…
The National Commission on Military, National, and Public Service has a few ideas on how the federal government can better attract and retain IT and cybersecurity talent. In…
The White House Office of Management and Budget and the Federal CIO Council announced Tuesday that they have opened applications for the second round of the new,…
The Trump administration has given its final ruling on direct-hire authority for mission-critical IT positions, and it looks exactly like the draft regulation it proposed last October. The…
The chief data officer at the Department of Defense, Michael Conlin, discusses data as a strategic asset, at the public meeting of the Defense Innovation Board, at the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies, Washington, D.C., Oct. 10, 2018. The Defense Innovation Board comprises private-sector leaders and innovators to provide recommendations to the secretary of defense and other senior defense leaders in an effort to improve DOD’s processes and apply best practices. (DOD photo by Lisa Ferdinando)
The Pentagon has made big plans to adopt artificial intelligence across the department, but two very large hurdles stand in the way of that goal, its new chief data…
The Office of Personnel Management has proposed delegating direct hire authority for IT professionals to agency heads. OPM published a proposed regulation Monday in the Federal Register…
Despite numerous laws, executive orders and administrative cajoling, federal agencies still haven’t fully defined the authorities of CIOs when it comes to managing their IT enterprise. As…
