Workforce
Just as critical as the modern technology that keeps the government running are the people behind it. The federal government employs over 2 million people who deliver a wide range of essential services to the American public. As agency CIOs navigate new technologies and processes, they will also be responsible for upskilling and reskilling the workforce. Agencies will need to find new ways to empower their workforce to tackle emerging cyberthreats, use advanced technology and understand the policies surrounding them.
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Congressman Gerry Connolly, U.S. House of Representatives
Connolly is responsible for shaping government-wide policy for a broad range of issues, including federal workforce and agency oversight, procurement and information policy, and more.
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Coding It Forward Offers College Students Meaningful Work in Federal IT
Coding it Forward, a student-started nonprofit organization, is empowering young technologists to bring about impactful social change in the federal government.
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CISOs Discuss New Approach to Tackling the Cyber War
In the process of IT modernization, getting rid of tech debt could lead to an improved cybersecurity landscape that would help federal agencies better fulfill their mission needs.
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Leaders Agree that Cybersecurity is About People
Educating everyone about security is especially important as paradigms surrounding cybersecurity shift. Traditionally, experts thought of a strong perimeter as the most important way to defend critical networks and systems.
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HHS CIO Outlines Top Priorities
The Department of Health and Human Services is collaborating on various technology pilot programs with public and private-industry partners to automate workflow processes, aligning data-sharing strategies with security and human-centered design.
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First Cybersecurity Reskilling Cohort Graduates
In an effort to draw upon talents and aptitudes within the federal government to close the cybersecurity workforce gap, earlier this year the Federal CIO Council created the Cyber Reskilling Academy, a full-time, three-month-long program for federal employees outside of IT roles to learn the necessary skills to become cybersecurity experts.
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Navy Assistant Secretary Outlines His Four 'Ds' to Improve Acquisition
Navy’s top acquisition executive highlights the service’s procurement improvements to keep pace with the speed of technology.
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Closing the Cyber Workforce Gap by Improving the Pipeline
Agencies across the federal government offer programs to stoke interest in federal cybersecurity careers.7m read
