Jun 25, 2019
“If you care about people, they’ll care about their work,” Labor Department Director of Employee Engagement Kristin McNally told Nextgov. Figuring out clever ways to engage employees can pay off big for agencies. Engaged employees perform better, but in the long run, the agency wins by being able to retain great...
Jun 18, 2019
In the latest episode of Critical Update, USDA’s Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation, Bill Northey, joins Nextgov’s Brandi Vincent to highlight how the agency is leveraging new technologies to enhance its service to farmers and producers across America. For Northey, such an endeavor—continuing to...
Jun 11, 2019
The Pentagon’s research wing, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, was created when Russia launched Sputnik and the U.S. had no response. And within DARPA, the Defense Sciences Office tackles big, forward-looking technology issues so the country is never caught off guard by another “technology surprise.”...
Jun 4, 2019
The Defense Digital Service has a simple motto: Get shit done. But within the government's largest agency, that’s easier said than done. Nextgov’s Aaron Boyd talks to then-Director Chris Lynch (who announced he would leave government shortly after our interview) and former Chief of Staff and current Hack the...