CIO Council

Workforce cohort outlines specific ‘blueprint’ for civil service reform

For civil service reform, agencies should use lessons learned from workforce pilots at other agencies, according to a recent report from Convergence.

Workforce

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Close up of hands typing on laptop. Night work concept.

OMB issues digital accessibility guidelines, tells agencies to set up public feedback mechanism

Technology

Small agency IT executives have some help in juggling all their responsibilities

Ask the CIO

Microsoft working with CISA on assessment tool for cloud security configurations

Cybersecurity

Governmentwide chat, calendar collaboration tools coming in 2022

IT Modernization

A waiter checks clients' health passes at a restaurant in Ascain, southwestern France, Wednesday, Aug. 11, 2021. People in France are now required to show a QR code proving they have a special virus pass to enjoy restaurants and cafes or travel across the country. (AP Photo/Bob Edme)

Agencies get new guidance for securing mobile devices on international travel

Cybersecurity

Sen. Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, speaks as FBI Director Christopher Wray testifies before the Senate Judiciary Committee on Capitol Hill in Washington, Tuesday, March 2, 2021. (Mandel Ngan/Pool via AP)

Senator looking into potential pay abuse at ATF

Federal Newscast

Pre-pandemic CIO Council report nearly predicted SD-WAN’s usefulness to agencies

Technology

CIO Council reawakens push to use Technology Business Management standards

Reporter's Notebook

VA says it’s now closer to offer more coronavirus testing to its employees

Federal Newscast

CIO Council recommends new pay system to better recruit, retain future federal IT workforce

Workforce

In this Thursday, Sept. 12, 2019, photograph, monitors check their screens in the Governor's Office of Information Technology in downtown Denver. Some cybersecurity professionals are concerned that insurance policies designed to limit the damage of ransomware attacks might actually be encouraging hackers. “We don’t know what that ransom payment is going to fund,” said Brandi Simmons, a spokeswoman for the office. “As a state government, we don’t want to be in a position of funding cyberterrorists.” (AP Photo/David Zalubowski)

Ensuring the federal IT workforce of the future

In today’s Federal Newscast, the Chief Information Officers Council says government needs a new pay and personnel system to better recruit and compensate…

Federal Newscast

USDA candidate development program priming next class of CIOs and CISOs

The Federal Chief Information Officers Council selected 21 GS-14s and 15s from 11 different agencies to participate in an Agriculture Department-run Senior…

SES

FILE- This March 11, 2019 file photo, shows the north entrance of the Trump International in Washington. A federal appeals court in Washington on Friday dismissed a lawsuit filed by members of Congress that charged that President Donald Trump has illegally profited off the presidency. (AP Photo/Mark Tenally, File)

Trump organization asks for rent reduction and Congress has questions

Federal Newscast

In today’s Federal Newscast, House and Senate Democrats push back on reports that the Trump Organization seeks to reduce its rent on the Trump Hotel in D.C. during the pandemic.