The Key to Professional Development
Take a look at the keynote sessions being offered at the NextGen Gov Virtual Training Summit on May 15.
Take a look at the keynote sessions being offered at the NextGen Gov Virtual Training Summit on May 15.
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Agencies play so many different parts in the lives of constituents. Here are six categories of government work that have distinct interactions with the public and ways of establishing trust.
Generative AI may be relatively new but it’s already proving its value. Here’s how Microsoft used it to enhance its compliance training.
Deciding where and how to begin using generative AI can be daunting. Here are some straightforward tips for adopting this new technology.
Governments need AI foundation models that are fine tuned to their specific requirements — for relevancy, accuracy, and effectiveness in their specific use cases.
FEEA is a national charity and the FIM Challenge raises funds to support programs that help improve the financial resilience of civilian federal and postal employees and support them in achieving personal and professional goals.
In recent years, the federal government has made greater efforts to advance cybersecurity technology and strategy — such as offering best practices and other guidance, promoting public/private partnerships, and making financial investments. Here’s an overview of four key issues on the cyber agenda.
There were some big headlines in 2023 that reminded everyone why cybersecurity is so important. Here’s a roundup of key events, as well as details on the 2023 cybersecurity guidelines that agencies must follow.
The White House’s Executive Order on the Safe, Secure, and Trustworthy Development and Use of Artificial Intelligence lays out a strategy focused on monitoring, regulating and staffing the development of AI-based innovations. Here are some ways government is meeting its requirements.
Agencies can optimize the performance of their IT systems and applications by taking a comprehensive approach to collecting and analyzing data. Artificial intelligence, and a unified data platform, can help agencies maximize those observability efforts.
Executive orders, frameworks, and acts of Congress tell agencies what their cybersecurity goals should be, but generally leave implementation details to other entities. The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), a component of the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), fills that need — developing actionable, standards-based guidance that helps agencies turn… Read more »
When governments nationwide had to switch to remote work nearly overnight, North Dakota’s technology office met the challenge of supporting and equipping 8,000 state employees who were suddenly working at home. Here’s what they learned.
When an agency hires you, it wants you to succeed. That’s why agencies have employee manuals, organization charts and onboarding processes. But new hires need to do some of the legwork, too.
A government career offers many opportunities to find work that matters. But although you’re working for the public good, you also need to treat your career as a career — and treat yourself as a professional.
The everyday functions of government — and the services that agencies provide constituents — depend on strong cybersecurity protections. One state’s plan for disaster recovery helped it respond effectively to 23 simultaneous ransomware attacks. But the state has more in mind than that.
Configuration management is critical to cloud security because many products come with default settings that do not provide adequate security.
Agencies often lack reliable, real-time data that can help them solve critical problems. In Chicago, officials used the cloud to bring early childhood care to underserved demographics.
When you’re a newbie, the wisdom of long-timers can lift the veil on the mysteries of life as a public servant. According to our experts, the most important thing in starting your government job is to embrace the complex and varied environment you’ve entered and explore it.
Many people are just trying to “get through” remote or hybrid work, hoping that the past will reappear. It won’t, a government expert told GovLoop recently, but there are ways to adjust to hybrid work’s peculiarities.