The Road to Working With OMB: An Insiders’ Guide

Submitted by on Wed, 07/29/2020 - 11:52

Blog Co-Authors: Steve Redburn, Professorial Lecturer, The Trachtenberg School of Public Policy and Public Administration, George Washington University and Barry Clendenin, Adjunct Faculty, Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University

Robert Costello

Submitted by on Mon, 07/27/2020 - 09:48

Mr. Robert Costello joined U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) in 2012. He currently serves as the Executive Director (XD) of OIT’s Enterprise Networks and Technology Support Directorate (ENTSD) and as the Acting XD of the Border Enforcement and Management Systems Directorate (BEMSD). Mr. Costello is responsible for the execution of combined budgets of >$500M. His personnel are located in Virginia, New Mexico, and Florida.

Re-Thinking Government Management and Operations Given the Impact of COVID-19: A Challenge Grant Competition

Weekly Roundup: July 20-24, 2020

Submitted by on Fri, 07/24/2020 - 15:47

Data Failure. Don Kettl, in commentary for Government Executive, writes: “Without a standard, trusted language of COVID data collection, it’s been hard to measure the disease, track its trend, and build effective policy.  . .

What Covid teaches us about community

Submitted by on Thu, 07/23/2020 - 09:59

Kettl is a guest blogger for the IBM Center for the Business of Government and author of The Divided States of America (Princeton University Press, 2020).

It’s been like the devastating assault of Hurricane Katrina on America’s Gulf coast in 2005—multiplied more than a thousand times over. No part of the country has escaped as the virus has hop-scotched around, now hitting many communities that thought they had been spared. 

The Mindsets of Innovators in Government

Submitted by on Wed, 07/22/2020 - 09:52

Technology innovation is happening via cross-agency communities of practice and incubation hubs supported by the federal chief information officer and the General Services Administration.

Dr. Alan R. Shark

Submitted by on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 14:38

Dr. Alan R. Shark has been the Executive Director of Public Technology Institute (PTI) in Washington DC since 2004. PTI is now part of the Computing Technology Industry Association (CompTIA). He is also a Fellow of the National Academy of Public Administration and Chair of its Standing Panel on Technology Leadership. In addition, he is an Associate Professor at the Schar School of Policy and Government, George Mason University, and a Course Developer/Instructor at Rutgers University Center for Government Services.

Part 6: Distance Work: Home Alone?

Submitted by on Tue, 07/21/2020 - 10:19

[Note: This column also appears in Washington Technology. It is the sixth in a series on how the COVID-19 crisis has changed how government works. Emily Craig and Michaela Drust, IBM, are co-authors of this column.]

Cybersecurity Risk Management – Resources for Agency Action

Submitted by on Mon, 07/20/2020 - 15:15

The proliferation in the use of technologies such as social media, the Internet of Things, mobility, and cloud computing by government agencies has increased the potential cyber risks facing those agencies.  Diverse agency data stores extend the source of risk throughout government organizations, bringing the need for new approaches that move beyond traditional security precautions.

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