Industry Insights
Striving for Federated Identity Management in Emergency Management and Healthcare
Federal agencies are focused on identity and access management like never before. By linking electronic identities across multiple platforms, agencies can improve collaboration while lowering costs.
Management
3 Ways to Quiet Your Mental Chatter (aka Monkey Mind)
How to stay on task and limit distractions.
Defense One
The Myth Behind the Hollow Force
The disconnect lies in the difference between a smaller force and a hollow force. By Russell Rumbaugh
Defense
GAO Questions Affordability of F-35 Joint Strike Fighter
Total acquisition cost of $390 billion “may not be achievable,” watchdog warns.
Management
How to Become Productively Generous
What leaders can teach employees about helping without burning out.
Nextgov
U.S. Cloud Services Companies Are Paying Dearly for NSA Leaks
The agency could consider economic impacts of its practices.
Nextgov
Microsoft Offers Agencies Incentives to Drop Windows XP
Agencies upgrading to Windows 8 receive discounts and robust Office 365 cloud service.
Oversight
Opinion: The Feud Between the CIA and the Senate Is Not a Problem -- It's a Glimmer of Hope
Our adversarial, Madisonian system may be alive after all.
Oversight
House Republicans Determined to Produce a Budget
But putting one together that can pass won't be easy.
Oversight
Play of the Day: On Russia, News Media's Dirty Words
Fallon examines what you can and cannot say about the Russian news.
Industry Insights
The Road Ahead: Three Years After Cloud First
For a variety of reasons, from budgetary to operational, cloud environments offer significant advantages over legacy systems. Despite these advantages, agencies have been slow in moving to the cloud, and progress has been inconsistent.
Industry Insights
Shared Services: Creating Efficiencies for All Parties
As deadlines approach, agencies must decide whether to become shared service providers or consolidate and use the services of another organization.
Retirement
OPM's paper-based retirement processing persists
Six hundred Office of Personnel Management employees still process federal retirements by hand—on paper, underground—in an old limestone mine north of Pittsburgh, Pa.
Benefits
Air Force opens applications for training
Air Force appropriated fund civilian employees this month can begin applying for intermediate and senior developmental educational opportunities, the Air Force Personnel Center announced.
Employee Policy
IRS workforce losses hobble agency, union says
A union that represents employees at the Internal Revenue Service said the loss of thousands of IRS employees will hamstring the agency from helping taxpayers during this year's filing season.
Defense One
Think the Pentagon Isn’t Serious About Asia? Think Again
Next month, Hagel hosts a 3-day summit of 10 defense ministers from ASEAN and beyond, and that’s something. By Brian Harding
Defense One
Why Aircraft Carrier Workers Deserve a Better Plan from the Pentagon
Predictable and stable work is what the aircraft carrier industrial base needs. By Rick Giannini and Darrell Grow
Defense One
Summits Are Nice but Obama Needs to Do More for Nuclear Security
The Obama administration started the Nuclear Security Summit convening this week. Now it needs to pick up the pace before terrorists get a bomb. By Joe Cirincione
Defense
Military Sexual-Assault Verdicts Revive Debate on Hill
Critics said the cases underscore the need for further reforms.
Management