Weekly Roundup: March 5-March 9, 2018

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Michael J. Keegan

DOD details its plans for JEDI cloud contract. The timeline for a department-wide commercial cloud solution is aggressive, but Pentagon officials say deeper in-house expertise and better internal cooperation can get them to an award this year.

 

Weekly Roundup: March 26 -March 30, 2018

Submitted by on Mon, 04/16/2018 - 13:58

Michael J. Keegan

Weekly Roundup: April 2-6, 2018

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John Kamensky

The Federal Workforce of the Future.  The Partnership for Public Service has released a new report that provides: “a snapshot of what the government looks like now and recommendations on how agencies can prepare for the future.”

Announcing the Center’s Challenge Grant Competition Recipients

Submitted by on Mon, 04/16/2018 - 13:46

Earlier this year, our Center welcomed proposals on ideas about government management and operations two decades from now, as we mark two decades bringing similar ideas to government since 1998. We received close to 80 proposals with creative thoughts on alternative scenarios for the future of government, and we are grateful to all of the applicants who brought ideas forward.

University of Victoria

Submitted by on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 08:08
John Langford is a Professor and the Graduate Adviser in the School of Public Administration at the University of Victoria, in British Columbia. His teaching and research interests are in the areas of public sector governance, management, and ethics.

Center for Environmental Policy and Administration

Submitted by on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 07:57
W. Henry Lambright is Professor of Public Administration, International Affairs, and Political Science and Director of the Science and Technology Policy Program at the Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs at Syracuse University. He teaches courses at the Maxwell School on technology and politics; energy, environment, and resources policy; and bureaucracy and politics.

University of Southern Maine

Submitted by on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 07:51
David Lambert, PhD, retired in fall 2014 as an associate professor in the Public Health Program, Muskie School, University of Southern Maine where he taught courses in health economics, mental health policy, and public health policy for children and families. Dr Lambert directed the evaluation of the Northeast and Caribbean Child Welfare Implementation Center, which is funded by the U S Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) Children’s Bureau. In this capacity he helped design and monitor evaluations of participating state and tribal projects.

John Lainhart

Submitted by on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 07:45
Mr. Lainhart (deceased) was our Cybersecurity Fellow and the IBM Global Business Services (GBS) US Public Sector Cybersecurity & Privacy Service Area Leader. He was the Co-chair of the US National Association of Counties (NACo) Cyber Security Task Force. He also served as Co-chair of the COBIT 5 Task Force and Principal Volunteer Advisor for IT Governance, COBIT, ValIT and RiskIT related initiatives. Mr. Lainhart was recognized as the “father” of the Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA) program.

The George Washington University

Submitted by on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 07:38
Young Hoon Kwak is an Associate Professor in the Department of Decision Sciences at The George Washington University School of Business in Washington, D.C. He received his M.S. and Ph.D. in Engineering and Project Management as well as Management of Technology (MOT) Certificate, all from the University of California at Berkeley.

Towson University

Submitted by on Fri, 04/13/2018 - 07:26
Dr. Martha Joynt Kumar is a Professor in the Department of Political Science at Towson University. As a scholar with a research focus on the White House, she is interested in presidential - press relations, White House communications operations, and presidential transitions. Her most recent book, Managing the President's Message: The White House Communications Operation, won the 2008 Richard E. Neustadt Award for the best book on the presidency from the presidency section of the American Political Science Association.

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