In the midst of crises such as Hurricane Laura, police brutality and a global health pandemic, agencies like the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) are especially attentive to building resilience.
As all leaders do, Dr. Brandi Baldwin had to work through some complexes around what she believed leadership was. “When you think about leadership as we’ve known it, quite frankly it’s been a lie,” Baldwin said.
As one GovLoop contributor put it, just because we have more ways to communicate with each other, doesn’t necessarily mean we communicate that well.
Holistic data management can provide a single source of truth for agencies and the various components they are comprised of.
If you could time travel to before the pandemic, what would you tell yourself then that you know now?
For the City of Sparks, Nevada, the first two weeks of remote work hurt a little.
To serve its customers best, the Defense Digital Service (DDS) recruits for the skills and capabilities that its customers need.
“Their current process took 4 to 8 hours to do a pre-award risk examination. We were able to get that down to 15 minutes.”
The opportunities for technology to be adopted and embraced like never before is the silver lining that Sylvia Burns, FDIC CIO, sees at both her agency and the federal government at large during this crisis.
Traditionally, government has viewed continuity of operations as a document. But COOP is really a process — a living, real-time activity that mitigates or addresses any disruption to a mission-critical operation or service so that it keeps running.