Management
Memo to the President: Staffing Your Team
Policy expertise is crucial for many positions, but managerial experience is essential to others.
Route Fifty
Subverting Government Data Is Replacing Economic Espionage
“Almost worse is if they change it and you don’t know about it because it questions integrity,” according to one Symantec cybersecurity expert.
Pay & Benefits
VA Bonus Dustup, Trump’s Government ‘Accountability’ Play and More
A weekly roundup of pay and benefits news.
Management
With Sequestration Looming, GAO Suggests How Agencies Can Do More With Less
Auditors identify best practices for dealing with budget cuts.
Management
Memos to the President: How to Run Government Effectively
Advice from leading scholars on how to improve government's ability to deliver on its promises.
Management
Will Guantanamo Bay's Prison Ever Close?
President Obama campaigned on the promise of shuttering the detention facility, but the task proved more difficult than anticipated.
Nextgov
White House: AI Could Disrupt Millions of Jobs, and Policy Needs to Adjust
The spread of artificial intelligence won't be "costless," a new report says.
Management
Peter Thiel is Pushing Donald Trump to Use Private Space Companies at NASA
The battle over how humans head for the stars has taken a new turn.
Tech
The Most Urgent Questions About the Russia Hacks
No foreign power has ever intervened to try to shape a U.S. election with this kind of sophistication and potency.
Oversight
New Leadership at VA Committees, But Likely Same Priorities
Lawmakers in the next Congress are expected to keep focus on improving vets’ access to health care and stronger employee accountability.
Route Fifty
N.Y. State Pension Bribery Indictments; Will Congress Kill D.C.’s ‘Death With Dignity Act’?
Also in our State and Local Daily Digest: Snow-removal costs pile up in Billings; Ohio aims to make its data more accessible; and Oklahoma City’s new evening lifeline.
Management
Trump Can't Actually Cancel Federal Contracts on a Whim
The process of withholding payments for government work is intentionally cumbersome.
Nextgov
NIST Wants Help ‘Future-Proofing’ Data Security
The standards agency is seeking citizens' aid in building encryption algorithms that can withstand attacks by quantum computers.
Management
How Benchmarking Can Help Agencies Improve Performance and Save Money
Publicly comparing similar activities can be a powerful driver for change.
Management
The Spiritual Crisis of the Modern Economy
The main source of meaning in American life is a meritocratic competition that makes those who struggle feel inferior.
Management
For the Holidays This Year, Give Yourself the Gift of Solitude
How to disappear completely.
Management
A New Military Jet Flies Just One Year After It Was Designed
The new Boeing and Saab plane took to the sky for the first time on Tuesday, showing defense firms can build complex weapons quickly.
Management
Obama’s Move to Stop Arctic Drilling Forever Could Thwart Donald Trump’s Oil Ambitions
Most of the US Arctic is now "indefinitely off limits to offshore oil and gas leasing."
Tech
How Did One Small Defense Firm Get a Seat at Trump's Tech Summit?
The meeting put data-viz firm Palantir next to some of the world’s largest data-gathering companies.
Oversight