Below is an excerpt from GovLoop’s Latest Report: Crafting a Comprehensive Digital Government Strategy View Online Below or Download PDF GovLoop’s research defines a digital government as “the tools, applications, resources and methodologies allowing government to leverage new and emerging technology to serve the most mission-centric goals of the agency.” Below is an excerpt fromRead… Read more »
What leadership lessons can we learn from the firing of Rutgers coach Mike Rice? If you’ve been following the news story about how now former Rutgers basketball coach, Mike Rice, was verbally and physically abusing his players, then you undoubtedly know that he was fired and his assistant, Jimmy Martelli, has also recently resigned andRead… Read more »
…if you think about it. I was talking to a friend who hosts a series of industry meetings. Being spring and the sap is rising, her last meeting had a lot more people than usual, but she noted most of the newcomers were prospectors, looking for new sales. She saw it as the physical equivalentRead… Read more »
[reposted by request from original] Most federal civilians have really good job protections: while they are subject to furlough and sequestration, taking actual punitive actions against a general schedule civilian employee is pretty uncommon. In particular, things like the Employee Rights & Appeals process, and Merit Systems Protection Board exist to protect employees, and theyRead… Read more »
The Shining: The Inside Story Behind The National Anthem Of College Basketball The High Five Margaret Thatcher, Britain’s first female PM, dead at 87 – Former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher,a towering figure in postwar British and world politics and the only woman to become British prime minister, has died at the age of 87.Read… Read more »
By Ryan Kamauff Here are the top cyber news and stories of the day. Army defends its mobile device security plan – “The Department of Defense’s inspector general has reposted and updated a report critical of the Army’s shortcomings in handling cybersecurity for commercial mobile devices (CMD), with some changes to correct for what itRead… Read more »
The Government Man has been quiet lately. I’m running out of things to say about the non-scandal involving my long time employer, GSA. I have plenty more to say about our dysfunctional Congress but I’ll give it a rest for a while. Feds have enough on their minds these days, given sequestration and furlough issuesRead… Read more »
There are many challenges to using the competitive procurement process to purchase IT solutions for government. The dilemma is more than just large and cumbersome RFP package production, long software demos and lengthy review and contracting. Government has reduced funding for investments and can no longer afford to get it wrong – especially for coreRead… Read more »
Our recent blog post about accountability had some good discussions on the GS-1102 LinkedIn group (closed group) about who actually is responsible for accountability. Should it rest squarely on government? What responsibility does the contractor have when the government is asleep at the switch? A recent issue seems to have blurred that line, prompting theRead… Read more »
The High Five Laws against driving and cellphone use aren’t working, study finds – A Transportation Dept. survey finds that despite legal bans in 39 states, 660,000 drivers nationwide are preoccupied with their cellphones at any time. A Building Not Just Green, but Practically Self-Sustaining – When an office building here that bills itself asRead… Read more »